This game gives me so many great memories when just started playing my new PC that I bought in 1999. Heroes were one of the first games I bought for my new PC. I got so much into this game that it was so addictive I could not stop playing it! At that time in 1999 this game of the best in it’s series better then the first 2 previous heroes games and also way better than the next heroes game (heroes of might and magic 4 that in my opinion SUCK!). The game has very good graphics (for 1999) it didn’t require cool video cards like all the other games at that time. The game has a big number of castles that you can play with and a big number of heroes too. There are basically two classes of heroes Warriors and Mages (I always loved mages way better than warriors). The game has close to 200 hundred units which have their special abilities and much much more. There is also close to 80 artifacts that heroes can use. The battles in the game are 2D but they still look nice even through this day. In the battles you should always think what and against whom should you use the magic or who to attack with you units. The AI in this game is pretty good (depends on what difficulty you chose to play. But my favorite part about the game is music. Music that’s right everywhere you go there is different music and sound. I think this game deserves the name of a game with greatest music. The game play is very addictive as I already said you can play for hours before finishing the map or campaign. I passed all the maps that were available for this game (there was I think about 80 or so) and all the campaigns too. The only bad thing about the game was there were not enough maps to play. Because when me and my friend wanted to play hot seat (one of the multiplayer options) I knew all the maps so I always kicked his butt. But later the new versions of heroes came out it they were “Armageddon’s blade” and “the shadow of death”. I was so happy when they came out with the random map creator! I and my friend or friends played the game for hours (I think my total hours of game play would be close to 1000 or even more). Now with this new random map creator I got my butt kicked a lot of times too. At present time there is many add-ons to this game like HOMM 3.51 with new units artifacts and you can even have a commander in your army that can fight and cast spells and do some other stuff. I think this game deserves to be one of the greatest games of all time. Recommend to everyone!!
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