Heroes of Might and Magic V Hammers of Fate Expansion Pack
- Play as a brand-new Dwarves faction, made up of heroic warriors and rune magic adepts
- New campaign with 15 new missions
- 5 new single-player maps, and 10 new multiplayer maps
- All-new spells, items and abilities
- Simultaneous turn feature and random map generator
In Heroes Of Might and Magic: Hammers Of Fate, you'll extend the role-playing action you loved in Heroes of Might and Magic V. Take part in a thrilling new adventure, where you'll discover uncharted territories and experience new ways of playing Heroes of Might & Magic V. Addition of The Caravans (much-loved feature from Heroes IV)
Great game 5 out of 5
I have owned and played all of the Heroes V games and love them. This is the only one I hadn't played. When I installed this game I didn't realize it was in Spanish. Since I don't know Spanish I was kind of handycapped playing the game. But I had played enough of these to know all the moves and how to get through the senerios. After a while it wasn't fun trying to figure out what was going on. It is strange the manual that came with it was written in english,parts of the dialog was in english,but the rest was spanish. But the game is great anyway.
Adding more fun... 4 out of 5
I thought this expansion was alot of fun. And the new Dwarve class had a lot of cool new units. Yea, it is still alot like the previos game, but still fun.
The Dwarve class has the cool Bear Rider which has some cool features like the paw attack which make this feel different from the other classes.
The story was solid as was the graphics. And in the cutscenes, at least their mouths move when talking now and they are not quite as animated.
You have 15 missions which aren't as tough as the original game (they have a new easy setting which I thought was nice so others gamers might take interest in the game) but still challenging. The only bad part to this you can never really stray to far from your castle until you build up because the AI always seems to know and the sneak in thru some portal of other path you haven't seen yet take your castle. You just go back and forth unitl you are strong enough which makes each mission to seem like it takes forever to beat. You will have 20-25 hours of gameplay, if you beat it the first time around.
One other cool feature is the ability to hire creatures from other castles you own and other dwellings you have captured. When you hire them, they get sent by caravans to the castle you hire them from, and it tells you how many days until they arrive. Much better than having to go to each place to get your units. You can also have your carts attacked by the enemy and vise versa to stop re-inforcements.
This expansion is probably not as cool as the original, but still alot of fun. Now, off to Tribes of the East.
I wish I could play it, but it randomly crashes all the time 1 out of 5
Note: I'm not rating this game badly because of gameplay, I'm rating it badly because it doesn't work.
I was able to play and beat the original Heroes 5 on my computer without any issue at all. I LOVED Heroes 5! However, this expansion hardly runs for more than 2 minutes before I get the blue screen of death. I have posted for help on forums, asked for technical help from the company, and tried reconfiguring my system. I built my own computer and feel that I understand computers very well and I could not figure this one out. The game simply will not play on my system.
The game was not designed for Vista, and I think that's what my problem is. I'm not going to install XP just so I can play one game every now and then.
Before you buy this game see if this game is compatible with your video card! It was released unable to run on quite a few Geforce and Radeon cards. It will not run on lap tops either, so don't bother to try.
I'm frustrated with this company because I LOVE the Might and Magic series, but so many of the Might and Magic games crash very often. Whenever I play Heroes 3 I have to save every turn because it randomly crashes often. Many of my friends have had the exact same problems.
Long and Boring 4 out of 5
It is very cheep, but for an obvious reason. I got all the Heroes of Might and Magic V for about 25 dollars including shipping and handling, and I never played it much past the first few missions. It was very easy to beat even on the hardest difficulty, it just took to much time to do. I found myself just building up huge armies and slaughtering my enemies within about 4 game weeks for every single mission. I must say some of the characters are rather interesting, and it does bring back some of my old memories of other turned based fighting games like Final Fantasy 7.
Decent Expansion Overshadowed By Another 3 out of 5
If you liked Heroes of Might & Magic V, then you'll welcome all the additional content in this expansion. Unfortunately, everything available in this expansion and the base game have been surpassed by the standalone game Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East. Get that game instead as it has a better singleplayer campaign plus all the skirmish and multiplayer maps made so far.
