Posted August 24, 2009
One of the most addicting strategy games ever. I remember playing HOMM ever since I was a kid, it still holds it's charm and I still rank it as one of my all time favorite games and I'm sure that almost anyone who has played it feels the same.
Don't let the first impression of the grainy and cartoonish map screen fool you, this game is a lot more than seems in the first sight. Very addicting and entertaining game play which takes a while to get into, but is easy to learn. Still, it the campaigns offer enough challenge and do not get old after years of playing.
Building your town and armies, collecting treasures and most importantly, conquering enemy castles and watching their heroes' troops get on the wrong end of a horde of black dragons... or die trying. THAT is what this game is all about. The idea is simple, yet brilliant.
There are only have a handful of hero unit types (each having their own type of town and troops) but that is a lot more than it may sound like. You will control multiple heroes and multiple towns and you will be battling for the mines and resources on the map. Your supply of units will be limited by your gold income, structures and most importantly, the rate on which your town inhabitants multiply. You can only buy a limited amount of each unit every 7 turns, thus making it slower to build an army in hurry and preventing you from buying only the troops you most want. The situation can chance easily. Move too far away from your castle and be unable to return before your enemy attacks it, lose your hero and army by fighting a too strong opponent... Make a mistake and you might suddenly find yourself without a castle and with only a half a dozen skeletons and mutant zombies.
Even these days, this game classic will cause you to spent sleepless nights in front of you monitor and saying "just one more turn". If you tumble across it and decide to boot it up, beware, you will be stuck with it for a long, long time.
Don't let the first impression of the grainy and cartoonish map screen fool you, this game is a lot more than seems in the first sight. Very addicting and entertaining game play which takes a while to get into, but is easy to learn. Still, it the campaigns offer enough challenge and do not get old after years of playing.
Building your town and armies, collecting treasures and most importantly, conquering enemy castles and watching their heroes' troops get on the wrong end of a horde of black dragons... or die trying. THAT is what this game is all about. The idea is simple, yet brilliant.
There are only have a handful of hero unit types (each having their own type of town and troops) but that is a lot more than it may sound like. You will control multiple heroes and multiple towns and you will be battling for the mines and resources on the map. Your supply of units will be limited by your gold income, structures and most importantly, the rate on which your town inhabitants multiply. You can only buy a limited amount of each unit every 7 turns, thus making it slower to build an army in hurry and preventing you from buying only the troops you most want. The situation can chance easily. Move too far away from your castle and be unable to return before your enemy attacks it, lose your hero and army by fighting a too strong opponent... Make a mistake and you might suddenly find yourself without a castle and with only a half a dozen skeletons and mutant zombies.
Even these days, this game classic will cause you to spent sleepless nights in front of you monitor and saying "just one more turn". If you tumble across it and decide to boot it up, beware, you will be stuck with it for a long, long time.