Heroes of Might and Magic® 2: Gold

The 2 stars are only for the pretty graphics. This game was apparently designed only for players with high tactical/strategic skill. Because I am not one, this game is hands-down unplayable. Even the weaker-type enemy mobs are too overpowered. It's all sparkly-colorful fun & good until I encounter an enemy Hero, at which point Game Over. Granted, I could read up on all the strategy guides and learn over time how to get better... but there needs to be a learning curve. And when I get my [posterior] handed to me on a platter partway through the first level of a basic campaign, well that's no curve. I might be able to overcome this roadblock by cheating, except that the few cheat codes out there don't work in campaign mode (if they work at all). I want my $10 back.

NOT RECOMMENDED unless you are one of those cheeto-dust-smelling OG D&D'ers or / and cannot get over the 1990s consumerism. Also, no point in buying this when the turbo-modded Heroes III exists. In short, it's boring AF. H2 is practically a mere content expansion to H1, with most of its short-comings and the lack of gameplay variety. The manual pdf claims that there should be more maps with objectives other than "Kill Em All." (" Many scenarios will now have different victory or loss conditions instead of the standard ‘Kill ‘em all.’ ") Here are the mission objective stats: OG campies: Roland: 9 Kill, 1 Dig objectives Good: 10 Kill Expansion campies: Price of Loyalty: 7 Kill objectives Descendants: 5 Kill Voyage Home: 3 Kill Wizard's Isle: 4 Kill, 1 Dig For comparison, H1 had 9 Kills and 1 Dig. H2's 95 % kill-em-all vs H1's 90%. Lies. In other words, expect the same castle-conquering and Hero-murdering gameplay content repeated over almost every single mission. To be successful in the game, you need 1) tons of time because the game is soooo slooow and micro-ing intensive, 2) tons of number tables and formulas to check if your numbers are high enough for what you want to do (e.g. "can I attack / recruit these monsters yet") and 3) principles of AI manipulation. E.g. the AI won't usually attack your city if it has a big-enough number of total garbage garrisoned in it. -The all-seeing AI is intact and it will B-line to your town from the other side of the map if needed. -The killed enemy Heroes WILL respawn on the following turn with slightly less troops, ready to Armageddon your army to pieces again. This cycle never ends... well for the player, at least. Even if you can deal with that, you still need to contain that enemy because otherwise it will B-line to your other non-defended towns, taking over your resource mines on the way there. -The campaign content is lame bad-DM-tier stuff and the voice acting outright cringy. Think of what you buy this for.

hardest game I ever played. I rememebr having an entire army of dragons and still getting beat... and it wasn;t even the final level.

Game asks for CD (DRM-Free), Lacks some language versions that where originaly available. Not working at all on 5 computers out of 7 I tried it on. I have over 110 games now on GOG and most of them HAVE DRM are not working at all or are partialy broken. I was sceptical towards digital distribution therefore I have no other Steam/Ubi/... account and chosen GOG for no DRM and simple no internet required installer but it still seems that GOG is the same type of greedy theaves like other platforms. 30+ yearas old games for 10+ Euro, openly lying about DRM-Free content and tons of unfinished/buggy/no-efort half-products sold for full price. Never again, call me whatever you like, I won't buy any game from now on, only pirated content if I'll want to play something so much. And instead getting on with politics and hipocritic "supporting" lgbtq community everywhere but not in arabic or comunistic countries you all should focus on creating finished high quality products.

Rosy glasses though? No I am not wearing any. I am a VERI-fucking-FIED owner of some 260 "good old games" here. Some are GOOD. Am I playing any? Not really. Hoping to play? Hoping to recapture the good old days one day when I don't have to slave what remains of my life away for rent and useless shit? YA!!! You BETCHA! Wishful thinking that. I'd played King's Bounty games first. Loved them. Then, I thought, hey, all that HOMM awesomeness bypassed me somehow when I was some 30 years younger, so let me try it... So I've tried it. IT SUCKS The tooted music? Try Baldur's Gate soundtrack (better yet King's Bounty soundtrack) and stick that HOMM soundtrack CD up your know what. How's the GAME though? Here's how: Choose the "kindly" brother's story. Get quest to pacify all nearby tribes. Get 3 Boar and 9 Halfligns for the army. Get killed. Reload. Go looking for gems and gold, dig through the ground. Do that for a dozen turns. Get a lot of gold, treasure and shit. Drink from a fountain. Get blessing. Kiss a Statue get luck. Pick a fight. Die. Reload. Go back to Castle. Yay! Can hire 8 more Halflings. Repeat above (except no more luck from kissing Statue) and no effect from the fountain. Try ANY battle again. Die. Nothing more to loot, dig or kiss or suck or drink on the map. Back to Castle. Turn, Turn, Turn. Hire 8 more Halflings. Try again. Die. Say: FUcK!!! $hitt!! Try to Turn-Turn again, no more Halflings to hire. An ENEMY ARMY emerges. It kills EVERYTHING that had KILLED YOUR army without breaking a sweat... Spit at your screen. Uninstall.