An old fashioned game for old fashioned folks like me. Turn based or real time. Interesting story. I had it on CD ages ago but couldn't inastall it on upgraded systems. Thatnks to GOG I can play again.
Just a couple of warnings: 1- If you don’t like playing as my least favorite class - the Barbarians (Behemoths, Cyclopes, Rocs, Orcs, and Goblins)… don’t buy this because those are the troops/heroes you will command all the way through. 2- As with all Heroes Campaigns, each successive scenario has an extremely low, and easy to reach, experience cap. You max out early on in each scenario and eventually get to a point where the levels are (in my opinion) much lower than they should be for the degree of difficulty. Even on the “easy” level. So I bought it, played it and deleted it. I would recommend that you purchase something else. Something more re-playable. (i.e. something with more variety to it.)
I almost didn't buy this one, and i probably shouldn't have. It IS facinating. But it is also more complex that I really like. If you are like me and you enjoyed Civ II but not Civ III... skip this one. The subtilties of inter-societal interactions are just too unpredictable for me. I'll go back and try it again... some day... maybe. I can prbabaly figure it out. (I did Civ III, even though i didn't really enjoy it.) If you want a real challenge, buy it. If you want a game that you can win every time... don't.
A friend had the DVD for this game. It looked like it could have been fun to play except for all the glitches. If one does not have EXACTLY the right hardware/software/drivers it will not run. His either wouldn't load, wouldn't run, would run for a few minutes and then lock up his computer, or just crash his system entirely. I actaully saw it work for almost 30 minutes (one time) and it was very nice... until the system locked up again. When I saw it here on GOG, i bought it right away. After all GOG takes games that won't run on new systems and makes them work... Right? WRONG! Even after jumping through all kinds of system adjustment hoops and downloading an OLD version of direct x - It still won't run. Whoever wrote this program (I actually read somewhere that it was developed in Russia.) did a great job on everything except for making it too inflexable in its operating requirements. Sigh!
