Might and Magic® 6-pack Limited Edition

While the first three M&M are now a bit on the older side, 4&5 is what I consider the best heroic fantasy RPG available to date, with a wonderful story that goes from the bright to the dark side of xeen, giving you a really strong and unkillable avatar... until you finish 4&5 and try the bonus Clouds of Xeen dragon where the first dragon will make you totally regret not being a power leveling adept. MM6, while not as good as its two predecessors would still be worth a full 4 stars on its own, with maybe a half star bonus just for the pleasure of bombing whole cities with meteors. Unfortunately, while it is easy to be a savior, being a bad-ass is very hard, and while I did kill all citizen, I never got under a real bad reputation, which is a real shame.

Thanks to GOG I have again the chance to play a game that defined the RPG genre. M&M series is based on original D&D concept. At the start you choose/get party of heroes each can have different class having set of skills, primary attributes, magic and appearance. After the start you begin to unraveling story unique to each game of serie with plentiful side quests which will help you to level your heroes in order to become more and more powerful. Key part of series is M&M VI - outstanding graphics (in release year), party creation, large country where you can find clues related to Heroes of Might & Magic II and stunning music. This part is 'must play at least once' for all RPG fans. Again thank you GOG for this compilation and New World Computing for creating such fantastic serie.

MM4/5 are an amazing amount of detail, depth, and gameplay for the price. MM6 is pretty huge -- although it is vulnerable to abuse if you know the game too well and want to really burn through it. On the other hand, they're all fun. I still remember playing MM1 twenty years ago, making maps on graph paper. :) Classic games, tons of fun, substantial replay value. The weakest point of MM6 when it came out was lack of support for hardware accelerated video (because, back then, the pallette tricks they were using for different monsters weren't widely-supported enough, and many cards didn't have the memory for the engine). Given that the game ran silky-smooth on a 200MHz i686, though, there's no worry about that now. MM6 lets you choose between a real-time system and a sort of semi-turn-based combat system; the latter has some unusual quirks, but it's still playable, and a huge amount of fun to play. MM7 and MM8 used the same engine, slightly updated, so maybe we'll get lucky and see them some time.

I was introduced to Might and Magic through the Sega Genesis M&M (equivalent to PC M&M2). I also played it on PC and C64 back then. M&M1 and M&M 2 were huge award winning successes that really began to establish the framework of modern day RPGs. It has tons to do and is one of those old-style actually-hard games. In fact, I only finally beat it last year after playing nearly 10 years (played it several times, of course). It's not "good" like today's stuff. But it's just plain ol' fun for me. I doubt it would fit many people's taste. But M&M6 is just simply an amazing game. If you've play Heroes of Might and Magic 2, 3 or 4, then you'll want to check this game out b/c it fills you in on a lot of the story going on in those games. It's a unique story with some good and novel game play. These are nowhere near the best RPGs ever. But they are great fantasy/sci-fi games and instrumental in defining the types of games we have now.

These are six of the best examples of American born RPGs there ever was AND all for one low price together. Each one capable of absorbing months worth of your time as you search for the answer to the quest (which, admittedly, was darn easy to lose sight of) or just plain upgrading your party with new gear or hirelings. Might and Magic and Might and Magic 2 are what introduced me to role-playing games. Final Fantasy 2 and 3 may have solidified my love for them, but it was Might and Magic 2 that got me on the path of the role-playing game. In my opinion these are far superior to the old AD&D gold box offerings which more often than not left you frustrated and Ultima which if you lost the booklet you were SOL. The core gameplay of M&M is form a party and set out on your quest. Movement is accomplished going N-S-E-W on a grid. A minmap lets you know where you are, but maps are limited so you'll wind up making your own with graph paper. Combat consists of taking turns with the creatures you encounter based on speed. Either attack with your weapons or use spells, depending on the classes of your party. Leveling is somewhat slow and infrequent, but since you need to visit a trainer to accomplish the actual leveling up this is fine. Ultimately it's a fairly standard group of RPGs in regards to gameplay, but there's literally thousands of things to find and do. Sphinx riddles, dungeons galore, quests, you will never run out of things to do. Don't wait, buy this now and see why we love it.