Those are great games, 1&2 are probably not playable but starting from 3 all of them are gems. 4&5 are probably the most enjoyable ones, especially as they will combine into one huge game. Just buy it as they are more than worth the price.
This is absolute gem of a game. Played for first time over 20 years ago and just recently bought another copy to play over again. The game have got great story, the music is awesome, even the hand drawn 2D graphic looks ok. The Heroes of Might and Magic saga and Might and Magic saga are very much intertwined and the story that runs throught the games is interesting and very well written. The only complain of mine is that 3DO did not follow on their planned story line and didn't add the "evil" mechanised city in Shadow of Death expansion and give us Flux instead. This is probably down to HoMM always being considered high fantasy game rather than fantasy/sci-fi mix as M&M. Anyway, overall game is great and well worth givin it a chance.
Stay well clear of this game. The plus-got it for $3.00 as a part of mystery game deal and there is some kind of old school feel. Now the bad-The old "school feel" is created by graphic from last decade. Really looks like they couldn't be bothered to make the game look better. There is no XP bar, i know you can check progress on status page but you won't do it all the time. There is no life indicator of the monsters you are fighting. Really annoying as you don't know, is it one hit from going down or is it barely scratched. There is no information about monsters resistance etc. Yes, you can check it but i want something easily accessible and in front of your eyes. There is no mini map either. The dialogs are long winded and boring. After a while, with most will in the world you'll just click until all conversation options are exhausted. The story is not interesting at all. That might change further along the game but i struggle to bring myself to play it. Last but no least game freezes every so often after starting a conversation with NPC. No other way that shut the game and restart. Really annoying. All in all-stay well clear and look for something better.
