Heroes of Might and Magic V is, without doubt, the best Fantasy Turn-Based Strategy Game I have ever played. It has solid story line, high replay value, great 3D graphic and music background. It's just plain fun and hightly addictive. The game, however, is kind of hard for me even when playing "easy" level. I spent two whole days and two whole nights completing just one sceanrio on a very big map. The AI opponent is quite smart, and very hard to beat. The bad thing I have to say about this game is that it has "too many" patches and this confuses the players which version of the patches they need to update their game. I have tried 3 patcheds to update my game to version 1.4,i.e. US patch, Asian, Collector's Edition, but to no avail, just keep getting an error message "There is no Heroes of Might and Magic V installed on your machine." And this drove me crazy. Finaly with the help of a program called "GameShadow", I could get the right patch and applied it to my game. So new players, especailly those folks from other countries outside US and Europe, should be warned about this patching problem. I live in Thailand, that's why I have this kind of problem, not knowing which version the game sold in my country is. Apart from that, it is just a great game and worth every penny you spend.
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