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What improvements we made to this game:
Update (13 November 2024)
Fixed non-playing intros in Russian and French localizations of the game
Fixed windowed mode (F4) in all versions through the use of DDrawCompat
Validated stability
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
Update (16 April 2019)
Added Russian localization
Update 4.0 (3.2) (09 November 2018)
Added Polish localization
Added dummy IFC20.dll file to French localization, for HD Mod compatibility (not included)
Update 4.0 (A) (22 March 2017)
Added support for Cloud Saves in GOG Galaxy 1.2 and newer
This is one of the greatest games of all time (GOAT), but you really need to play it with the HD Mod and HotA updates. There is an active community developing both. I think you just use them with this purchased install folder. HotA allows an active server for multiplayer games and simultaneous turns (until humans fight the first time in the scenario). The HD Mod allows several resolution options that let you make use of greater screen space than people had in 1999.
I'm actually hoping to create my own turn-based strategy game for mobile, largely from being inspired by this game. It's that good.
If you read my review to Heroes of Might & Magic (HoMM) 2 Gold, I can make it short: This is basically the same game but even better, while it has more difficult campaigns.
The story plays when Catherine Ironfist becomes queen of Erathia and has to fight against the "devils" (or rather Kreegans) to restore peace in Erathia.
Well, the gameplay, as said before, is quite the same. Again, one commands heroes that run around with creatures to collect resources, explore the map, fight other creatures, fight other heroes, conquer towns, sometimes defend own town, etc. - much like in HoMM 2. If I remember it correctly, here level limits for heroes were introduced and heroes could be taken across campaign levels. Actually, it was my bad skill in this why I stopped playing HoMM 3 after a while. There's a mission where one has several heroes (four or eight) in the second campaign, and that became too much for me at that time since I was used to do everything with a single hero.
Well, the improvements over HoMM 2:
There are nine town types now (eight without addons), with even more buildings per town. There are more objects to find on the maps, in render graphics. The ambient sounds are also better. There are more spells, more creatures, more artifacts, more victory conditions, etc. - there are also more maps and campaigns!
So the game becomes more complex but not so complicated that one really needs to read the manual.
To me, this is still the best of its genre (turn-based-strategy). HoMM 4 and 5 are also good games, but 5 is annoying to always adjust the view so one sees everything, while 4 concentrated more on different aspects, making also a very good game, only slightly worse to me than HoMM 3.
There might be much more to write about HoMM 3 but I suggest you just to play it or - if you don't want to buy it directly - test the demo version.
Tip: You might also want to install "In The Wake of the Gods", an inofficial freeware addon for HoMM 3 (see the thread in the forum for details).
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.