One of the best strategy games ever.
The Heroes games are different from most other strategy games, as it is a turn-based strategy game. Each player starts with a town, a hero, and a number of resources. The players use their turns to build structures in their town, recruit troops, exploring the map, and fighting roaming creatures or opposing armies.
There are eight different towns, Castle, Rampart, Tower, Inferno, Dungeon, Necropolis, Stronghold and Fortress, and an additional one in the expansion, Conflux. In each town, there are seven different creatures (fourteen with the upgraded versions) with various power level and special abilities, and wonderfully animated. The heroes (there are 130 different heroes, I think) lead your armies of creatures around on the map, gather artifacts and resources, and attack enemy heroes, towns, and garrisons.
In the combat, your troops are standing on one side of the battlefield, and your enemy's on the other. Then you move the creatures in turns, and cast spells to destroy opposing troops or enhance your own. It is extremely well made, and makes you able to think between each move, and yet it does not lower the intensity.
The gameplay really shines. It is perhaps the best gameplay I've ever experienced on a PC game. The heroes, towns, and battling system are made in a unique and nice way, and is funny yet challenging.
The graphics aren't exceptional, but the towns and battles are very nice views. The creatures are as mentioned before very well animated, and all of them have lots of cool details. The sound is both calming and exciting, with orchestral themes for each town and location on the map.
This game can have you sit there for hours and hours, without making you grow tired. It has something to offer to both novices as well as experts, and new unexpected challenges every time you play. If I could have put 1000 or More Hours in the "Time Spent Playing, to Date" box, I would probably have done so. Because I have. And it is still fantastic.
This is the best Heroes of Might and Magic game, there are few that disagrees with that.