As a Czech person, I was curious about this game. The controls did not fit me, very stressful gameplay on the keyboard, very quick game for me, even on easy difficulty tends to ragequit. Nice music. Does not support cloud saves so I can not continue to play my laptop. I can recommend to first try the Demo, if it is game for you. Refunded.
I've never played older parts, but this game left me with good memories. I remember build a bases with defender turrets that made laser "fence" together, killing enemy units, which I liked. This game has perfect orchestral music from unknown poland composer/singer (I bought it because I love the "End Credits" song Live Your Life :-) ) 4/5
With unofficial HDmod, great community, I think I'll be playing this game even in retirement! From all HoMAM series, H3 is still unbeaten for me, 2D graphics is so clear. If you wake up me in the middle of the night, I think I would recited you exactly all monster statistics numbers :-) Hundreds of hours spent playing this catchy game. I would repair some useless secondary skills like Eagle Eye the way it not ruins the game feel (chance of instant gain of spell to your spellbook in the battle just after oponent casted, even after retreat) and Learning, otherwise it is just ruined slot :-) HotA is nice addition for multiplayer but for single player, I think game feel is ruined as it added and modified too many things.
This game is one of my most favorite RTS up today! GoG version is fixed, support high native resolutins, and preserves perfect czech dabing. Endless fun in campaigns, many ways how to complete missions - your chooses have big cosequences, perfect multiplayer with friends. You definitely love some game characters (Powell, Lisa, Frank in American campaign :-) ) It's pity developers did not finished Arabian campaign, it's something that I missing, but we have many community mods based on unfinished original files.
My TA memories goes 25 years to the past and I still remember epic graphical explosion effects and spectalular game music. I love vannila game without 3.1 patch, which ruins original campaign feel a little (all missions are vissible, shadowed items in build inventory). No other game is like TA: you can fly with your Freedom Fighter, relaxing by avoiding anti-air rockets from the Jethros, shoot with your Hammers close enough to use ballistics advantage.. This is just a masterpiece and everyone should explore this great game.