Heroes of Might & Magic V Announced!

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Blake00 · #1 Post by **Blake00** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:50 am

Hi guys.. over my years on the net there was one constant thing that I found when chatting to people online was that a lot of people love games where you get to play a hero 'saving the world' so to speak. For the last decade I played and loved 2 series of games 'Quest for glory series' (hence why I'm here watching the brilliant work by AGD) and the 'Heroes of M&M series' of fantasy strategy games where just like in QFG you get to control and fight cool heroes and beutiful beasts with a true mix of RPG and strategy.

After the release of the 2nd add-on pack for Heroes IV a few years ago the long time creator of the series New World computing was closed down when their publisher 3DO went bankrupt (party due to Heroes IV being a rushed out screwup).

But then the might and magic name was bought out by the European company UBISOFT and up until this point I've been watching and waiting for their official announcement on a new sequel and it has finally come with a new website and screenshots of Heroes of Might & Magic 5!

http://www.mightandmagicgame.com

Here's 1 of the screenshots they released. You can see many of the traditional heroes map buildings here with beautiful detail. Oh and I'll point out that these shots are showing off the engine so I'm sure that when playing the game normally you will still be in the traditional top down view that the previous Heroes games were played in.

Swift · #2 Post by **Swift** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:19 pm

That pic looks so "Warcraft 3"-like. Looks pretty, but I think it'll be a bit too much for my pc to handle without hanging.

Kurdt · #3 Post by **Kurdt** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:13 pm

Awesome! Here's hoping they also get around to doing a Might & Magic X and go back to the world of 6, 7, and 8. Those games were amazing...the only RPGs I absolutely loved.

Klytos · #4 Post by **Klytos** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:40 am

Sounds good to me!

Blake00 · #5 Post by **Blake00** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:43 am

Kurdt wrote:Awesome! Here's hoping they also get around to doing a Might & Magic X and go back to the world of 6, 7, and 8. Those games were amazing...the only RPGs I absolutely loved.

I'm sure they will do X. Aparently there's rumours of 2 other Might & Magic 'related' games on UBISOFTs production lists.

I doubt UBI could go back to the world of the earlier Might & Magic and Heroes of Might & Magics games since the idiots at NWC went and blew it all up in Heroes IVs story.

Spikey · #6 Post by **Spikey** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:33 pm

Oh nooooooo!!!! Please not this again. I hope 3DO explodes soon.

Kurdt · #7 Post by **Kurdt** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:02 am

Waitwaitwait...what? I didn't hear about the HeroesIV storyline. It blew up???!!?!! I'm'a have to go check this out...

But man! I have the collection of MM6-9 that came out a few years ago and it's the best investment ever!! MM7 is still my #1, but MM8 is close behind. The other two are kind of lukewarm to me, but they're all right in their own ways. Man! I'm gonna go play them now!

Zargaist · #8 Post by **Zargaist** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:52 pm

I read the story somewhere on a website 'cause I didn't had the patience and the time to play all the campaign of the Heroes 3 series. If I don't make any mistake, the story of Heroes 3, Armageddon's Blade, the Heroes Chronicles and Shadow of Death all turn around the story of 2 blades, the Armageddon's Blade and the Frost Sword and somewhere at the end of the series, 2 champions, Tarnum and Gelu, fight each other with the blades, and when the Armageddon's blade touch the Frost sword, the entire world explode. Basically, all your attempts to save the world in Heroes 1-2-3 and M&M6-7-8 (and maybe M&M1-2-3-4-5 if the story wasn't so complicated), failed. And Heroes 4 begins with the survivors etablishing themself in a new world. Tarnum, even if he was supposed to be one of the first to be melted in the explosion, also survived 'cause he's an immortal.

As for Heroes 5, I just hope it will be more strategic like the older Heroes games (1-2-3). Heroes 4 had too much RPG elements, you had to make sure you took care of getting as much experience and spells for all your heroes at the end of every scenario, 'cause in some missions they were the only creature you had, and most of the missions didn't gave you any enemies. You were the only one to explore the world. There had other player but the hero you had to kill didn't moved and the castle you had to conquer never created any heroes to explore the world, collect ressources and raise an army. It was annoying.

Blake00 · #9 Post by **Blake00** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:43 am

Some Updates:

There's been a interview with the games producer Fabrice Cambounet which you can read HERE. Now considering that fact that Heroes IV was rushed out full of bugs, imbalances, and missing features due to 3DO pressuring NWC to finish the game in a short time with little staff & money I was very happy to see the below posts about Ubisoft giving more time, money and people to Nivals Heroes V production.

The announcement was originally supposed to happen last year. What took so long?
Well, the first thing is that we weren't quite ready. :Þ Also, Ubisoft decided to increase the commitment and timeframe on the project, to raise the quality bar. That meant we could push back the communication start a bit further. Now we have more time and more people on board, and the contact with fans and journalists will be better.

How far are you into the development of the game? Is it playable at this point?
As I like to tease, I must say that we've been able to play for a few months now :Þ We're starting to get this “Heroes” feeling quite clearly ! This is really a great opportunity to work on an ambitious project, with a highly motivated team. There is a mountain of work left ahead, but all this time will also be dedicated to tuning and polishing, and its not that frequent in games development.

Five new screenshots have been released at the official website http://www.mightandmagicgame.com.

Here's 2 that got my attention:

A human hero & army of swordsman, archers (if you go to the website and look at the other pics you'll see an upgraded swordsman (the good old Crusader) which shows their really going in the Heroes 3 direction once more which is great).

Beautiful shot of a hero in grassland looking across a river into.. hell lol, reminds me of viewing Mordor from Gondor in LOTR.

Blake00 · #10 Post by **Blake00** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:41 pm

Another Update:

Several Heroes V trailers have been released for E3. There's several little amazing in-game trailers of the battle, map, and castle screen which are just incredible. But the big one is an amazing CGI FMV (possibly the games intro video) of the forces of Hell attacking a Human castle. You're treated to a Devil smashing Pikemen in all directions and then a bridge while a powerful human Hero/Crusader summons an Archangel to duel with the devil. When the Archangel fails and the city is falling the hero then summons an undead Bone Dragon out of desperation.

You can get the in-game videos at gamespot HERE.

You can get the movie trailer from the Heroes V site HERE and for those that don't wish download a 43 meg video I've put 18 screens together in 2 pictures from the amazing video below:

http://users.esc.net.au/~blake00/Heroes5/Trailer01.jpg
http://users.esc.net.au/~blake00/Heroes5/Trailer02.jpg