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. Given the addictive nature of the gameplay in the Heroes series, if all New World Computing had done for Heroes IV was slap pretty new graphics on top of Heroes III and put it it in a box, this would be enough to keep turn-based geeks all over the world perfectly happy. Take a peek at the screenshots on these pages and you will notice hi-res, crisp, new, colourful graphics with highly detailed landscapes. That’s right, they’ve changed the graphics a bit. The undisputed king of turnbased fantasy games is back (well, if it is disputed it’s not often, and nobody listens anyway), and in time-honoured sequel tradition it does all the things that every other sequel to every other game out there does.
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