Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Complete (Mac) | 
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Category: Video Games
Buy New: $179.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 20283
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Macintosh
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 1.8 x 9.5
Model: 5179-01-008
UPC: 790561517917
EAN: 0790561517917
ASIN: B000056OYL
Release Date: January 3, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Heroes of Might & Magic May 31, 2004
Myra Schjelderup (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a great game! It does get you hooked, though, so be careful. You can always save the game, however, so if you limit yourself you can always come back later to finish a scenario. In this game, you are... well... you are you. You don't have one character that's you, you are as many characters as you recruit. These characters are called Heroes. There are different types of Heroes, all having different abilities and statistics. In the beginning, you can either start was is called a campaign, where it's usually 3-4 scenarios all towards the same goal - in some you carry on your heroes to the next one, in some the first 3 are all different, and in the end you pick the group you want to use. There are more than 15 different campaigns.
For a single scenario, it's just one scenario, you complete it, and you're done. When doing this, you can either start with completely random things, or you can chose what different castles you want, what resource you want to start with, and what single hero you will begin with. There are 9 different castles, and for each castle there are maybe 10 heroes. For resources, you get to choose between gold, an artifact, or a different resource (depending on the castle you've chosen). Then you begin the game. In each scenario and campaign you have a different goal - most of the time it's to defeat all your enemies castles and heroes, but there are some where you have to kill a monster, gather all resource supplies(?), get a certain amount of gold, collect an artifact, kill a certain hero, or defend one of your castles from being captured by the enemy. When you start, it all depends on the certain scenario on what you have. Some start with your only hero, and you have to get a castle before you can really start playing - and in this game, if you are without a castle for a week, then you lose. In other scenarios, you start with one or more castles, and sometimes more than your chosen hero. In your castle, you can buy something to improve it once a day. It has barracks for different creatures to recruit, resource silos that will earn you some resources each day, mage towers that enable your heroes to learn magic spells, castles to improve the defences of the castle, and the greatest thing is the Capital, which you don't get until you get a few other things first, but once you do, it increases the amount of creatures in your barracks each week, and it gives you the mighty sum of 4000 gold per day. In your castle you can also recruit heroes, a choice of two per week - unless you recruit one, then a different one fills its place. And don't get me wrong - it takes money to recruit your heroes and creatures. You can also find money around the map with your hero, but most of the time you'll find yourself short of cash - unless it's a really long game and you've bought everything in your castle, have the limit of eight heroes, and your money is just piling up.
But enough about the castle - it's very important, but what you're trying to do is achieve your goal, and unless it's to accumulate gold, you can't achieve it by doing nothing with you hero. In any case, you have to have your hero capture resource places (ore pits, crystal mines etc.) so you have the resources to buy the things in your castle. You hero has a certain amount he/she can move each day - this increase with certain statistics you can get, or certain artifacts. There are also spells, if your hero is advanced enough to learn them and you have the right mage tower (and level) that enable him/her to transport somewhere on the map. That map in the beginning, by the way, is black, and you can only see things once you've explored there. If you have an ally, then you get to see where they've explored as well. Your hero sometimes starts out with a good army, but normally you have to wait to fight anything until you get enough troops in your castle. You hero has 8 'slots', which you can fill with an unlimited amount of 8 different creatures. There are different levels of creatures as well, and some are better than others. Your hero fights creatures around the map to get places, to gain experience (enough allows him/her to go up a level), to gather resources and artifacts, or to win the game. When you attack 'a' creature, sometimes they will flee and you can chase them (not on the map, your hero stays in one place) or let them go, and sometimes they will join you, which is always nice. You can also kill enemy heroes, but take in mind that if their army is better, you can die. You can make your hero retreat, however, and recruit him/her in the tavern in your castle. You can sort of view an enemies army by putting your mouse over them and holding down a certain key - I think it's the control key, the tap key, or the option key. Some heroes are also better than others from experience. You can also gain experience by doing other things besides killing beasts.
So now you have this very long narrative, and I still haven't told you everything about this game. Don't worry, you can figure it out yourself (I'm so nice). This is a really great game, for children and adults alike. It does involve strategy, however, so maybe you should be at least 10 before playing. It's a great game, and I recommend it to anyone who likes computer games - this version is for Mac OS, but there are Windows versions. This pack comes with three heroes games, all having many different campaigns and scenarios - as you can pick levels to each single scenario, that is almost an unlimited amount. You can also create your own map, but I haven't really figured out how to do this the exact way I want to, so I can't help you there.
I hope this review has helped, even it was really long. I hope you enjoy the game!
great game March 9, 2003
Lani S. Trotter (Redondo Beach, CA United States)
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
One of the best computer game I have ever played
the heroes review October 8, 2002
0 out of 12 found this review helpful
I think it is really cool!
An argument for neural implants May 20, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Of the strategy games, this is my all-time favourite. The graphics are fantastic, the spells are awesome, and the gameplay doesn't crash my computer. :) This game is about as addictive as it gets--I'd take it intravenously if I could. You might want to think twice about buying it if you have other interests...job, family, etc. My only caveat is that the Complete addition is the only way to get the nifty Shadow of Death upgrade (I already owned HOMM3 and Armageddon's Blade). However, after a few hours of HOMM3, the pain in my pocketbook just faded away...
Complete in every sense of the word.... June 13, 2001
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Heroes III Complete is a perfect mix of a turn-based strategy game and a fantasy RPG. Though the graphics aren't comparible to the latest screaming 3-D first-person shooter, the artwork is completely engrossing and more than adequate for their job. The AI is surprisingly tough and, as far as I can tell, doesn't cheat. There are dozens of units, countless characters, and limitless possiblities with the bundled scenarios and random adventure generator. This is one of those games in which you constantly tell yourself that you'll only take one more turn before quitting... and then take another twenty turns before realizing how much time you've sunk into it.Very addictive.
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