Heroes of Might & Magic 4

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Bring hero-characters into battle as super-soldiers in your army
• More than 140 hours of gameplay and 6 unique campaigns
• 11 starting Hero classes, 37 advanced classes
• All-new magic system
• Control up to 8 armies

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ALLQD4
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,891 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Heroes of Might and Magic IV challenges your tactical skills and tests your cunning. Enter a new world of brave heroes and powerful creatures and lead them in combat. Fight your enemies, capture towns, and collect vital resources and artifacts. All-new graphics and gameplay increase teh challenge and the make the game more exciting than ever, as you fight to rule a world!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, but..., December 3, 2005

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S. Tsang "Gray Ghost" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of Might & Magic 4 (CD-ROM)

I don't have high demands from a game, but it would be nice if there weren't so many easily fixed bugs. For example, when one looks at a spell in the spellbook, it reads %heroknows%spellname or something to that effect underneath a quote that doesn't tell much about the spell. Furthermore, some of these quotes read "Removed" or "Deleted".

The game itself, however, is plenty of fun as turn-based fantasy strategy games go. For $10.00 (now $8.50), I'm satisfied. If Ubisoft is reading this, please release a patch for the game that will update it from v. 2.2 to v. 3.0, as the Ubi.com site only has patches up to v. 2.1. Why the company would release a game in Fall 2005 without incorporating the v. 3.0 patch that is out now is beyond me, but I would appreciate some Ubisoft patch because the 3DO v. 3.0 patch does not work for the Ubisoft release.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hmmmm., March 1, 2007

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Synnøve Liljevoll "Synnøve M. Liljevoll" (Norway) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of Might & Magic 4 (CD-ROM)

I must say that the game is not as good as the third, but still alot of fun.
I prefer the campains, and the stories, the fighting will eventually get boring, I try to make a different rute, wich is dificult.
The game gives you many houers of gaming, and you will continu playing just because of the story(if you are like me) because it is really exiting and interesting.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More fun than you might think, February 23, 2006

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J.H. "Jon" "When in the company of ot... (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of Might & Magic 4 (CD-ROM)

I've recently returned to computer games after a hiatus of nearly fifteen years. This game is not quite what I wanted but it is still proving to be enjoyable. It is a mix of about 50%rpg and 50% strategy -- that is, if you're looking for dungeons and dragons style rpg, this only takes you about halfway there, and if you're looking for strategy a la age of empires, this only takes you halfway there (or so I assume, having never played age of empires). But if you're looking for a mix of both, this may just be the game for you.

The interface -- mostly you're looking at a top-down view of a map/dungeon, with your groups represented as figurines on the map (it's not a 3-D forward looking view). Each turn you move your figurine about the map. In combat, you can choose to let the cmoputer auto-calculate the outcome, or you can control the action yourself (becomes a bird's eye view of the battle where you move each of your party around the map).

FYI. I also bought Age of Wonders Shadow Magic. Heroes of M&M 4 is almost an identical game to AOWSM. AOWSM seems to be a bit more complicated strategy-wise, but Heroes may be slightly more enjoyable...