Heroes of Science and Fiction

Not a bad game, but not good as well. Heroes of Might and Magic with different characters. Skirmish is freezing like hell. End-turn button stucks, or does not appear after combat. What a pity....

(edit) aaaand i just found out the skirmish maps are not randomly generated! i only play 1v1, so i get exactly 4 maps to play on. and they all have some gimmick, teleporters etc. if random maps are a must have, you know what to do. (/edit) others can explain about the HOMM-ness of this game, here are my takeaways: game takes a long time to boot. not excessively long, but certainly longer than i would think a 2D game should take. loading your saved game does go quickly. the maps are ridiculously cluttered with pickups, gold, etc. so much so that it all blends together into a neon colored blob of 'stuff'. it really is hard to see that a path is blocked by some neon colored pickup. which leads (sometimes) to telling your hero to go there, only to see him take a circuitous route because of loot you didn't see. yes, Alt shows all pickups but sometimes loot is hidden behind terrain. this is not the only HOMM-like that has this problem. the game doesn't want me (in most cases) to play the tactical battles. either i win easily or it's too hard. if it's too hard i add more troops until i win anyway. obviously you have to learn the units, but as a new player i figure the computer knows them better than me. so i'm reticent to play them. my first skirmish, i'm pretty sure i won, but the game locked up on me when i took the last base, i never got a victory screen. so there's that. don't care for the art style. one thing i love is an 'end turn' confirm button when you forget to build, with a button taking you to the base where you can build. i always forget, so i'm a big fan of that. i got it 50% off. sounds about right.

Anmerkung zum Daumen runter. Gebe ich immer dann, wenn mich ein Spiel nicht wirklich überzeugt, weil ein Daumen quer leider nicht zur Verfügung steht, der hier angebracht wäre. Zum Spiel: Ja, es ist den Heroes of Might and Magic ähnlich, nur zieht sich die Kampagne elendiglich dahin, bis man den Gegner angreifen kann. Zudem ist die Kampagne relativ kurz und sehr abrupt beendet. Ist auch dadurch begründet, dass man Generäle vom Spiel zugewiesen bekommt und keine Möglichkeit hat, zusätzliche Generäle zu engagieren, obwohl man ein Gebäude zu diesem Zweck bauen kann. Möglich, dass das dann geht wenn man Einzelszenarien spielt, was ich nicht getan habe. Ich habe dazu aber auch keine Lust. Übrigens kann ich keine Aussage zur Musik machen, da ich die bei jedem Spiel so bald wie möglich stumm schalte. Und DLCs werde ich mir hiervon nicht holen, dazu war es mir zu ermüdend.

Фиг знает почему такие хорошие отзывы.. мб люди просто хотят новых героев так как эта игра и выглядит не очень и чувствуется недоделанной.

Hard but not impossible update and improvement on the Heros of Might and Magic series . Recommend to any lover of turn based combat and base building games. The ability of leaders to build structures and train on their own and upgrade other structures outside of the main towns is very good advance on the previous games in the series.

It is an okayish game, but I cannot recommend it since HoMM3 and Olden Era are definitely better. Good: + Exploration is well done + Good basic mechanics, copied from HoMM3 Bad: - The game is cumbersome: not more challenging, strategic or fun than HoMM3, only more confused - Units and commanders feel not distinct and too similar, in terms of gameplay and graphics - Abilities (magic) feel underwhelming - The campaign in a nutshell: wait and skip turns until you have a doomstack, then steamroll the objectives - The opponents turn in skirmish takes up to minutes on a gaming rig and sometimes crashes

Starkes Spiel. Es kommt sehr dicht an die alten HOMM Titel heran. Das Setting ist halt SciFy. Die Fraktionen sind gut ausbalanciert die Singleplayerkampagne macht Spaß. Ich habe es im Angebot gekauft, Daumen hoch!