Heroes of Might and Magic III

by 3DO

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004D699
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: December 15, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,624 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Ancient heroes and powerful mystics await you in your quest for glory! Now 3DO's new strategy and fantasy powerhouse Heroes of Might and Magic 3 has come to Linux! Strap on your armor and get ready to lead the charge into battle. Organize your legions of sorcerers, knights, and beasts to fight the common foe ... and hopefully your name will pass into legend.

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top 10 on my real-time strategy game list!, March 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Heroes of Might and Magic III (CD-ROM)

The heroes can gain levels, a wide variety of powerful spells, and raise skill points to magnify the power of the spells. The economy scheme is simple because all you have to do is to take over resource mines and keep them. This can be quite challenging because it becomes a tug-of-war between you and the computer enemies. You have a wide variety of castles to build up each possessing unique terrain characteristics that give native monsters bonuses and unnative negatives. Certain monsters do better against one kind of monsters, however, can be easily eliminated by another species. You have to recruit a perfect combination of creatures and build up a powerful heroes in order to win. The best part of the game is that you can develop such a powerful hero, that he or she becomes almost a God or Goddess in the game and no AI will stand a chance in your way! This is one fun monster bashing marathon!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality Entertainment, November 2, 2000

By 

J. Bodley (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heroes of Might and Magic III (CD-ROM)

Overall this is a nice game. I downloaded the demo and thought it was curious. I don't think I found this game as addictive as Civilization, but even to compare it is high praise. The multiplay is good although it can be a bit of a wait for the other player to finish. Some aspects of the game are a bit contrived and make it a little difficult to maintain a strategy. All in all the game is a bit whimsical, I wouldn't describe it as a hard core strategy game. Like a lot of games this suffers from the problem that the game can be decided early and then it just a matter of many hours of playing to finally resolve it. The greatest strength of the game is its novelty. Not that I've seen game there is to see but I hadn't seen anything quite like it. And on Linux too boot!

As to the Linux port. This is the only full version of a Loki game that I've tried and I was very impressed. I've tried the SM Alpha Centauri demo and am anxiously awaiting the final version. Oh, and if you haven't play Jagged Alliance 2, I heard a rumor that Loki was going to port that too. Another good and different game.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another awesome Loki port., March 12, 2000

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Alex Simovici (Brookline, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heroes of Might and Magic III (CD-ROM)

This game is amazing. Totally addictive. Graphics are quite well done. Installation was simple. Awesome!