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 Still Fun!!! August 27, 2009
William R. Goodwin (Tavernier, Fl)
I have been a fan ever since I walked into the store back in 1996 and saw Heroes 2. That game blew me away. And while this one didn't get going like HOMM2 did, I liked this one better than 3 and 4.
The graphics were very good, and the beginning and closing cut scenes were great, but why didn't they have those cutscenes in the whole game?? Before, after, and during each mission, we were reduced to watching mediocre cutscenes where their mouths didn't move while they talked. And while they were talking, the characters were way too animated. The sound and music in the game was solid as well.
As for the game, this is where it really shined. You have 6 chapters covering 30 missions, and most of them were quite tough. The only annoying thing was never knowing which missions you had to go slow on and which ones you needed to go fast on. Nothing worse than playing a mission for 4 hours to find out you can't win. ! example was you capture 8 castles, 4 of the necromancer and 4 of the the queens castles. It takes some time, but as you build up your forces, and you own every resource on the board, somehow the enemy in the castle picks up more recruits in a week in 1 castle than you can muster in 8. Not much fun when you waste that much time. Not to mention that I had 2 armies with over 6000 men attacking 1 army with about 5000 and could only kill half of them. The only other think that annoyed me was all he levels that you had 1 month to capture this castle, or 2 months to free a prisoner. they had alot of "timed" mission parts. Still, had a blast playing.
The game was defintely hard as you the easiest setting was normal, and it was tough. I beleive the games would sell better if it wasn't so hard as casual gamers won't touch this because it is so challenging.
After 10 years (though I waited to get this a little longer) of waiting for an HOMM game tha rivaled HOMM2, I have finally gotten it in HOMM5. A must for all HOMM fans.
 Ubisoft suks ! 3DO was much better . August 13, 2009
Gerald L. Brown (Whitakers , NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I played HOMM until I got to the end of one of the senarios where it would lock up . I took the game back to the store two times , But the game still froze up at the end of the same senario . So I sent the game back to the company like I have done before with other game companies . Ubisoft sent my game back to me with a letter saying I had to call , Or email them for payment info before they could fix the game , And top of that the game looked like someone stepped on it . It was smashed . I'm not going to pay them to fix a game they could not make right in the first place . I sent the game back to them with a letter of my own . I never had this problem with any of the other game companies , Because they would just send me a new game , & I didn't have to pay anything . I think Ubisoft is owned by Foreigners , & all they care about is getting more money .
Fun game, enjoyed alot, but copy protection is an F- June 14, 2009
RJ
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Quite a bit like HoMM3 with graphical and skill improvements. The feel of the game is alright, and while not quite as enjoyable as No. 3 its still very entertaining. Unlike most people I enjoyed No. 4, but this is still a good version of HoMM that you will probably enjoy if you liked the previous titled.
The reason I give it 1 star overall is the copy protection. I own the box version of this game. 3/4 of the time I stick it in the drive it asks me to insert the regular disk and not the back up. I absolutely HATE this crap - like that stardock garbage from a few years ago. UBISOFT - if your idiot programmers can't come up with some better version of copy protection then you should stop making games.
Nicely Done April 13, 2009
C. Tessler (Elgin, IL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I didnt purchase this game from Amazon.com instead i got it through Best Buy and honestly it's really a great game to get addicted to. I agree with the other reviews about the shuddering on the battlefield it does it somewhat on when I go into battle the zooming in & out yet not that much because I own a Emachine which has windows vista home premium yet as my character is on the map riding about it barely has any kinks in it as well. It goes rather fast and I enjoy playing it alot but its rather hard than Heroes III or IV plus whats a downside on it is that you cant use cheat codes like you can on the other two games to get more angels or dragons in which stinks but I do want to say that if you are familar with Heroes III or IV you must go out and purchase this game you will get addicted badly to it and never want to stop playing it!!
HoM&M V March 29, 2009
Matthew J. Mellott (Arizona, USA)
Good overall game. It's fun to have some guys over to play, and you can play xbox while other people take their turns. I am not really a fan of RTS games though.
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