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Platform:  WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA Publisher:  UBI SOFT Packaging:  RETAIL BOX Rating:  TEEN In the renowned Might & Magic universe demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault. The fate of the world is at stake and Heroes from a variety of legendary factions must stand up to defend their causes. Live their fate lead their forces to victory and unveil the secret goal of the Demon lords.Game Features:Complete strategy experience that includes RPG elements: Six campaigns and over 30 missions in which players conquer territories manage cities recruit armies and raise and upgrade heroes in a user-friendly yet deep strategic gaming system. Heroes series for the first time in 3D: A breathtaking 3D animated world will immerse the player in the Might and Magic world like never before.Customizable speed of play: Use the original turn-based system or switch to the new active time battle system for a fast-paced battlefield New darker and more sophisticated fantasy universe: Includes all the deep fantasy elements from the original series but with a more fully realized universe including six unique factions and over 40 different creatures and spells. Competitive and intense multiplayer: Play five different online modes via hotseat LAN or Internet; challenge your friends in furious battles and create your own level with the editor. System Requirements:Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP/VistaProcessor: Pentium 4 or AMD AthlonM 1.5 GHz (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz recommended)RAM: 512 MB (1 GB recommended)Video Card: DirectX 9 compliant w/ 64MB RAM (128 MB recommended)Sound Card: DirectX 9 compliantDirectX Version: DirectX 9 or higher (included on disc)CD-ROM driveHard Drive Space: 2+ GBMultiplay: Broadband internet connection NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives.

Bought the game and loaded it on my clean install of Windows 7 (32 bit). Did not work until I loaded the latest Direct X 9 drivers from Microsoft, which it turns out support Windows 7. After loading the Direct X drivers, the game works great. It also looks great on my 2 year old $500 laptop (hardly cutting edge - no special graphics card).

Long time player of the Heroes series. Still maintaining Heroes 3 is the one to get, if you're looking into them. Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Complete

Pros:

* Loved the graphics; clever little toon models that are lots of fun.

* Fun for a while.


Cons

* Fun for a while. Just for a while.

* Gameplay is just ridiculously balanced. Or unbalanced. Or something. Just never seemed that tactical or strategic: like it's better for kids.

* Doesn't add anything new or exciting.

* Almost completely square: no great creative swing on this one.


Get Heroes 3 instead, it's just the better game. Honestly, I even enjoy the graphics more today.

We bought this game as a gift for my sister-in-law because it is one of our favorites, and soon everyone was playing! The game has one- or multi-player options, as well as LAN play or same-computer play. Excellent game!

First of all, there has been a lot of complaints about this game with all sorts of bugs. Lots of this has been udpated and fixed with patches.

Negatives -
- All your heroes look the same, however different they may be.
- With updated graphics, even the beginning of the game, you actually have to wait for computers to do their turns(not exactly full length) where as with HOMM 3, if you didn't see a computer, you didnt wait for a computer.
- On large maps, as the game progresses and you discover more of the map, things can start to slow with all the movement of discovered things on the map even with my top of the line video card. They have patched this a bit to make a bit less laggy.
- Computers on 'Normal' difficulty play a little less then normal, for instance running by your undefended city and not taking it, even a dumb computer should know better.

Now, with all these negatives, I will now tell you why I still rate this game 5 stars. Please note, that I still only own the the original HOMMV and none of its expansions. Which I intend to have fairly soon.

Positives -
- Graphics are a complete upgrade from any of its predecessors
- Combat still good ole HOMM combat, with improvements such as showing which creature will go next, further improving strategical thinking.
- Re-invented building trees allow different building strategies.
- Compaigns full of hours of gameplay, with a good old fashioned good and evil storyline
- Heroes each have different traits which can provide different skills
- Multiplayer more accessible(provided you have correct version)
Positives(that I don't yet have but have read about) -
- Random map generator, which can provide a endless amount of strategical possibilities and gameplay.
- Map editor, I think we all know what this is.
- Each unit with the 2nd expansion has an alternate upgrade, further providing more strategy.

All in all, this game lives up to the HOMM3 that I still play and love to this day, it was nice to see an improvement to the what I thought horribly done HOMMIV. The biggest negative I listed was actually having to wait on computers that you can't even see, if you can get past that, I fully recommend this game and its expansions which I have just ordered.

I have been a fan ever since I walked into the store back in 1996 and saw Heroes 2. That game blew me away. And while this one didn't get going like HOMM2 did, I liked this one better than 3 and 4.

The graphics were very good, and the beginning and closing cut scenes were great, but why didn't they have those cutscenes in the whole game?? Before, after, and during each mission, we were reduced to watching mediocre cutscenes where their mouths didn't move while they talked. And while they were talking, the characters were way too animated. The sound and music in the game was solid as well.

As for the game, this is where it really shined. You have 6 chapters covering 30 missions, and most of them were quite tough. The only annoying thing was never knowing which missions you had to go slow on and which ones you needed to go fast on. Nothing worse than playing a mission for 4 hours to find out you can't win. ! example was you capture 8 castles, 4 of the necromancer and 4 of the the queens castles. It takes some time, but as you build up your forces, and you own every resource on the board, somehow the enemy in the castle picks up more recruits in a week in 1 castle than you can muster in 8. Not much fun when you waste that much time. Not to mention that I had 2 armies with over 6000 men attacking 1 army with about 5000 and could only kill half of them. The only other think that annoyed me was all he levels that you had 1 month to capture this castle, or 2 months to free a prisoner. they had alot of "timed" mission parts. Still, had a blast playing.

The game was defintely hard as you the easiest setting was normal, and it was tough. I beleive the games would sell better if it wasn't so hard as casual gamers won't touch this because it is so challenging.

After 10 years (though I waited to get this a little longer) of waiting for an HOMM game tha rivaled HOMM2, I have finally gotten it in HOMM5. A must for all HOMM fans.