I just finished playing through all of the Heroes Chronicles for the first time today. I have been playing it over the last two and a half months, and it's been a lot of fun. I would estimate that I got somewhere between 80 to 120+ hours of gameplay out of it too. Each one of the Heroes Chronicles (there are eight total) in the collection is a campaign with the hero Tarnum. At first I wasn't sure about the whole thing being focused only on a single hero, but the approach really works, and I was won over quickly. In each Heroes Chronicle, Tarnum is a different class of hero, and he uses a different town set. In one Chronicle you might be playing as a barbarian, then you play as a knight or a beastmaster in the next one. I thought it was fun and unique to have one character switch between different classes like this. Personally, I thought that the story was pretty good too, and I found that Tarnum's story was interesting right from the beginning. It hooked me. Whenever I finished a map, I wanted to go on to the next one just to see what was happening next in the story. Heroes of Might and Magic III is one of my all-time favorite computer games, and I think that it's up there among the best computer games of all time. I'm pretty sure that I have finished the Restoration of Erathia, Armeggedon's Blade, and the Shadow of Death campaigns at least two or three times each by now. It's one of my favorite old games to dig out and play every now and then. I love it, I'm a big fan of it, and I have a lot of fun playing it when I have it installed on my computer. So if you're like me, and you enjoy playing Heroes of Might and Magic III, then you definitely should have Heroes Chronicles in your game collection too. I really enjoyed playing through the Heroes Chronicles collection, and now I just wish that they had made more of them.
