Customer Reviews

Heroes of Might and Magic III

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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!

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.

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

This game is a lot of fun. My husband and my 5 year old step daughter and I play this all the time. Its a great family game for sure.

This game never gets old. You can choose between 8 town choices. The castle (example creature:angel), the rampart(example creature:unicorn), the tower (example creature:genie), the inferno(example creature:devil), the necropolis(example creature:skeleton), the dungeon (example creature:harpy), the stronghold (example creature:ogre), and the fortress(example creature:gorgon).There are countless scenarios, and plenty of neutral creatures. It's a must for any strategy gamer!