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Inside Mac Games has posted a review of 3DO's recently released strategy/rpg, Heroes of Might & Magic IV.

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The series is a fantasy turn-based strategy game where you begin with one hero and a town, which serves as your base. You travel across a map – or, in the case of a campaign, a series of maps – and gather resources, unearth powerful artifacts, conquer other towns, and vanquish monsters and opposing heroes. Your hero gains experience through combat, which will give your hero more power and skills. Gathering resources like wood and mercury allows you to upgrade your towns into formidable fortresses and build even bigger armies to annihilate your foes. While some games are won by completing a quest or meeting other criteria, more often than not you win through pure might by conquering all the enemy towns and heroes.

HoMMIII was an excellent refinement of the series-- the game’s producers refined an already great series. With 6 campaigns, 24 scenarios, 11 hero classes, 27 skills and 66 different creatures, HoMMVI looks to be just more of the same— not a bad thing, since HoMMIII was arguably the best in the series. HoMMIV was hailed as a predecessor that fans of the series would be familiar with, but a game that was going to see a few major changes. Did 3DO succeed?

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