Upon loading up the game you get an intro of a scrolling scroll! With a voice over of nun other than, General Ma’Tark from Star Trek DS9. If you didn’t know, he is the Klingon with one eye! So the scrolling intro tells us absolutely nothing about the storyline. Leaving you with a, ‘So what’s going on?’ feel! Now you are in a game that has a totally new might and magic engine and graphics that seem okay for a while. Until you start to meet characters and see more square shapes than you want too. After doing the tutorial to help get a feel for the new look you are then shipped wrecked on the Isle of Ashes which is where you meet Yaris the Trool, who tells you to unit the six clans. Finding a rather pitiful sorry excuse of a storyline and then those very lame cut-scenes. I was starting to wonder how I got the game! I did how ever have to upgrade a few times to get rid of the constant crashing and loads of bugs. Because with the kind of quality that 3DO left this in on release you can half understand why they might have gone bankrupt! The sound was up to scratch and the game played well when it was running, spells had their effects but I wasn’t sure if they became two powerful too soon. Because it started to get really easy very quickly and my part was only at level 40! They could take on greater demons on their own! Well, my Mage could anyway, all I needed to do was select Poison Cloud and point it at the flood and it would do loads of damage. Sadly there were still too many bugs and the storyline was rather lame showing lack of effort from the team that created Might and Magic 9. Cut-scenes where terrible and had no depth or class like the previous games in the series. I believe all together I played about 40 to 50 hours worth even know I had the game for a while. I have been very dissatisfied and this game can stay in my collection, but in the dust pile!
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