It makes you think long and hard about the choices you make on the main game map. Guide your heroes through an ever more complex path of choices and you will be upset when that huge horde of minotaurs kicks their heads in and ruins all your hard work. Heroes also take an active part in combat now, making it even more crucial that you choose the right paths for them along the way, and this has the net effect that you actually care about whether they live or die. There are five schools of magic, and you can train your heroes in any of them, from a basic level right up to grand master level, and the huge array of skills and spells can be mixedĪnd matched so you can develop your heroes to suit just about any situation. Hero classes can change dramatically depending on the choices you make when they gain a level (levels are gained through experience won from successful battles). No change there then, but how you develop them is now entirely up to you. Heroes Of Might And Magic IV, as the more intelligent among you will have guessed by now, is all about heroes and how you develop them. Did we yawn? Well, yes we did, but as always in these situations we pressed on in the hope that things would get better, and almost without us noticing, they did.
You know the sort of thing: take your hero, ramble round the landscape, pick up a few units before plodding into battle, and pick up treasures, gold and items along the way before meandering into battle against various creatures guarding the better (ie useful) items and goodies. So you can imagine then, how we were less than impressed when the first couple of hours of gameplay appeared to present an almost identical gameplay experience to what was offered with Heroes III.
We at ZONE Towers, however, require a little more than a bit of gloss from our high-profile sequels.
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