Heroes of Might and Magic® 4: Complete

The most amazing part about the AI, is that there is none. Rather than having any intelligence they just used bigger and bigger groups of mobs as roadblocks. This was so acutely obvious right out of the gate, I threw the lot of it, box, disc and all into the rubbish and moved along straight away..I have never been so sorely disappointed by a game than I was by this one.....

Extremely lagging like several fps. Sadly iImpossible to play.

Bad art direction. Ugly and bland to look at when compared to its predecessors (HoMM2, HoMM3), its contemporaries (Age of Wonders, Disciples), and definitely its successors (King's Bounty). I didn't try HoMM4 for very long, but it struck me as profoundly unsatisifying. The reviews were universally negative when it came out, and I can understand why.

It´s hard to give Heroes 4 a fair rating when you compare it to heroes 3, which is with out a doubt one of the best games ever made. I was so excited when it came, but the disappointment was even greater when played it. I remember playing it for a day or two before I broke the CD and threw it in the garbage. It´s not a bad game, but compared to Heroes 3 it´s a joke.

When the game came out years ago, I bought it, played it, threw it away. Literally, that's how much I hated what they did to the franchise. Now, after a very long time, I thought I would give it another chance. But GOG won't let me. There are tutorials how to make it run ok on Windows 10, which is now the dominant system but having to do it by downloading some external stuff somewhere is just not what I expect when I buy an old software created by a defunct company from a current distributor. Both the game and GOG's service in this case are horrible. For potential buyers: no internal or external settings will make it run smoothly on any Windows 10 computer. The problem is bad design, not your computer. There exist two wrappers but the distributor did not get either of them.