And the bottom line is that everyone who is not lazy, and even people who are far from the game theme, know about the third part of the Heroes.. The project, released back in , today does not look outdated and not interesting. Many people call Heroes of Might and Magic 3 "the new chess". Many say it is the benchmark for turn-based role-playing strategies. Many believe that in the modern video game industry there are no direct analogues that can outshine the Heroes.
What can I say if the subsequent parts could not surpass the third game in the series, which divided not only the franchise, but the entire genre into "Before" and "After".
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MagicPT Full Client. Mysteries of Magic Island Strategy Guide. Magic Words Genius. Magic The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers. Basketball Magic. Mirror Magic. You play a general, fighting up to three human or computer opponents, warring for the resources and magic that make up the strange lands you live in. While you take care of affairs in your castle, your hero-generals roam the lands fighting monsters and taking control of assets in your name.
They will also fight against enemy generals and learn to cast spells that can harm your enemies or help your forces win combat. The color of your standard--red, blue, green or yellow--determines the type of troops your castle can raise and maintain. You start off with two basic types of troops, and add to your defenses and the armies of your heroes by buying structures for your castle.
A Den, for example, produces wolves, and a meadow produces unicorns. Only one type of structure can be raised per day. Some require more than gold, such as another type of structure or some valuable commodity like gems, mercury, wood, ore, crystal, or sulfur.
While you cannot produce these on your own, you can capture mines, sawmills, and alchemist shops that will produce them for you. But you are not alone in this land. Up to 3 other opponents, computer or human, share the island with you and are competing for the same resources. In addition, there are hordes of lesser foes scattered across the land, some who may decide to join your hero's forces, and others who will battle with him to the death--his or theirs.
There are also some commodities scattered around the land free for the taking, provided you get to them first. There are dozens of shrines, temples and wandering characters on the map, many of which can add one of the game's 64 spells to your hero's book, or train him instantly in one of the 28 secondary skills available, which come in basic, advanced and expert guises.
Ballistics, for example, enables your heroes to attack towns with catapults. Others boost spell power, earn additional gold and even recruit dead enemies from the battlefield to serve as skeletons or zombies. Routine movement and exploration in Heroes 3 is carried out on the two-dimensional overhead adventure map with an icon bar to the right.
From here, you can access any hero or town under your control. When the fighting starts, the game switches to the combat screen, an abstract, hex-divided battlefield with more than just a passing resemblance to SSI's masterpiece, Fantasy General.
Popping up in between are the town and hero screens, where you actually make the decisions, swap troops and artefacts from one hero to another, trade various items on the free market to balance resource production, and add town buildings.
The screens are well-planned and neatly designed. A single click - never more than two - is all that's usually required to move from one screen to any other.
Your objective in Heroes III is to build bigger and better armies so you can dominate the map, take over things like sawmills and gold mines, and wipe out the opposition. Disappointingly, there's very little diplomacy or negotiation in this game - it's kill or be killed.
Single-player mode gives you the choice of one of 42 predefined scenarios or one of three initial campaigns. If the bundled scenarios become a yawn, there's a map editor, which enables you to create maps and new scenarios for up to eight players.
You can multi-play over a network, by modem, over the Internet, hot-seat or linked by a null modem serial cable. Expect to do a lot of waiting, though. It's a turn-based game, after all. You start Heroes III with a town, a hero and a small army of creatures under your command. There are eight different town types, including castle, fortress, rampart, dungeon, inferno, tower, stronghold and necropolis, each producing seven different troop types from the types available. Start with a rampart, for example, and you can recruit centaurs, dwarves, wood elves, dendroids, unicorns and green dragons.
Dungeons are limited to troglodytes, beholders, harpies, medusas, minotaurs, manticores and red dragons. Heroes come in 16 flavours and range from bog-standard fantasy fare, like knights and wizards, to more exotic characters, such as beastmasters and necromancers. Each town supports only two hero types: ramparts, for example, attract druids and rangers, while castles have knights and clerics. Not that you can't recruit other hero types - it's just that they're less likely to appear.
The most irritating feature is that you have to choose one of the odd pre-defined heroes in the single-player scenarios, rather than being able to 'roll your own'; in campaign mode, you get no choice at all.
Whatever happened to role-playing? If you move your hero on to an enemy, you immediately activate the battle screen. Your troops -seven units at most - are set out on one side, witn the enemy on the other, and in the middle are randomly placed obstacles to liven things up. The fastest troop types move first, and they can either fire ranged weapons or move close up for hand-to-hand combat. Unfortunately, that just about sums up the range of strategies on offer. With seven a side and roughly equal forces, it's virtually impossible to find a winning strategy.
If you have more ranged fire units, like archers, you can stand off and whittle down the enemy, but that way you lose more of your own ranged fire units to counter-fire, and these units tend to be harder to replace and recruit.
A hero with good combat spells can make a small difference but, in the end, the battles rely on luck more than skill. As always, whatever gods there are in the Might And Magic world are on the side of the big battalions. Finding the right strategy on the adventure map isn't easy, either.
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