Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: 3DO EAN: 0689524817594 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Format: CD-ROM Label: Loki Entertainment Software Manufacturer: Loki Entertainment Software Platform: Linux Publisher: Loki Entertainment Software Release Date: December 15, 1999 Sales Rank: 29573 Studio: Loki Entertainment Software
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Product Description: Ancient heroes and powerful mystics await you in your quest for glory! Now 3DO's new strategy and fantasy powerhouse Heroes of Might and Magic 3 has come to Linux! Strap on your armor and get ready to lead the charge into battle. Organize your legions of sorcerers, knights, and beasts to fight the common foe ... and hopefully your name will pass into legend.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - BEST STRATEGY GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!
This game never gets old. You can choose between 8 town choices. The castle (example creature:angel), the rampart(example creature:unicorn), the tower (example creature:genie), the inferno(example creature:devil), the necropolis(example creature:skeleton), the dungeon (example creature:harpy), the stronghold (example creature:ogre), and the fortress(example creature:gorgon).There are countless scenarios, and plenty of neutral creatures. It's a must for any strategy gamer!
Rating: - Top 10 on my real-time strategy game list!
The heroes can gain levels, a wide variety of powerful spells, and raise skill points to magnify the power of the spells. The economy scheme is simple because all you have to do is to take over resource mines and keep them. This can be quite challenging because it becomes a tug-of-war between you and the computer enemies. You have a wide variety of castles to build up each possessing unique terrain characteristics that give native monsters bonuses and unnative negatives. Certain monsters do better against one kind of monsters, however, can be easily eliminated by another species. You have to recruit a perfect combination of creatures and build up a powerful heroes in order to win. The best part of the game is that you can develop such a powerful hero, that he or she becomes almost a God or Goddess in the game and no AI will stand a chance in your way! This is one fun monster bashing marathon!
Rating: - Quality Entertainment
Overall this is a nice game. I downloaded the demo and thought it was curious. I don't think I found this game as addictive as Civilization, but even to compare it is high praise. The multiplay is good although it can be a bit of a wait for the other player to finish. Some aspects of the game are a bit contrived and make it a little difficult to maintain a strategy. All in all the game is a bit whimsical, I wouldn't describe it as a hard core strategy game. Like a lot of games this suffers from the problem that the game can be decided early and then it just a matter of many hours of playing to finally resolve it. The greatest strength of the game is its novelty. Not that I've seen game there is to see but I hadn't seen anything quite like it. And on Linux too boot!
As to the Linux port. This is the only full version of a Loki game that I've tried and I was very impressed. I've tried the SM Alpha Centauri demo and am anxiously awaiting the final version. Oh, and if you haven't play Jagged Alliance 2, I heard a rumor that Loki was going to port that too. Another good and different game.
Rating: - Another awesome Loki port.
This game is amazing. Totally addictive. Graphics are quite well done. Installation was simple. Awesome!
- Quality Entertainment
