Heroes III (also abbreviated as HoMM3) featured an improved art style, multiple lengthy campaigns, eight factions with seven levels of creatures (with each creature possessing an upgrade, essentially doubling the creatures), expanded hero customization, and tons of individual maps and scenarios that kept teenage me up late way into the night.
Heroes II was my first entry in the series and I had been completely addicted for years in fact its expansion pack, The Price of Loyalty, was the first expansion pack to a game I ever bought. The franchise proved successful alongside the main RPG series, and Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia was released in 1999 by New World Computing and 3DO as a highly anticipated followup to the well-received Heroes of Might and Magic II. The basic gameplay design was heavily based on New World Computing’s own 1990 King’s Bounty game (which received its own spiritual sequel in 2008’s King’s Bounty: The Legend when the rights were purchased by Russian publisher 1C Company). While Heroes shared the brightly colored fantasy world and creatures of the Might and Magic series, the gameplay introduced strategic turn-based combat based around individual heroes commanding large armies of creatures while managing resources, building up towns, and gaining skills and experience. The original Heroes of Might and Magic released in 1995 after the successful two-part release of the main series’ 4 th and 5 th entries, making up the World of Xeen ( Fun Fact: Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen was one of the first PC games I ever owned and played). Using what quickly became a standard first person, party-based interface, the main series captivated gamers with its unique fantasy world (with some sci-fi elements – space demons!) and lengthy open-ended gameplay. The “Heroes of” prefix was used to denote the series as a genre spin-off of the then-popular Might and Magic role-playing series that flourished throughout the late 80s and 90s on PC by New World Computing (and later 3DO). Aside from making me feel super old it gives me a chance to revisit what is widely considered to be one of the greatest turn-based strategy games ever made, and certainly one of my personal favorite games of all time. This week Ubisoft celebrates the 15 th anniversary of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia.
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