Hammers of Fate Heads to Stores

[baby arm]

Nival and Ubisoft unleashed Hammers of Fate on stores today in all its mammoth riding, armored bear fighting glory. This first expansion to Heroes of Might & Magic V includes a number of new features:

New faction: Introducing the brand-new Dwarves faction, made up of heroic warriors and rune magic adepts who stalk Ashan's deepest mountains and most hostile regions.

 

- A brand-new adventure: Featuring 15 new missions, new heroes, and improved cut-scenes, the new campaign will lead players even deeper into the dramatic events that began with Heroes of Might and Magic V.

 

- Extended game experience: Includes a wealth of new spells and abilities, 5 new single-player maps, 10 new multiplayer maps, new buildings, new artifacts, and new neutral creatures, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate gives players the tools to develop new tactics and further their game experience both online and offline.

 

- Improved mechanics and gameplay: New features, such as Caravans and a

random map generator

, allow players to have unlimited replay options and an even smoother gameplay experience. In addition, the simultaneous turn feature will speed up online games.

If you can't find it in a store, try Ubisoft's direct download service. I'll hopefully be picking it up on Friday. Is anyone else planning to get this?

 

[Space Voyager]

I'm just wondering.. Is HMM5 much better than HMM3? Is it worth the buy?

[nimd4]

Is HMM5 much better than HMM3?

Difficult to say .. 3d is kind of strange because once you've faced another direction, you can't tell any more where your towns are, etc. .. then, it's made 'childish' .. animations are not scripted and what you do in the game has no effect on those sequences .. the campaign is too easy and extremely difficult to finish depending on the map (which seems to follow HoMM4) .. anyway this is what I see:

• $29.95
  
• Note: This expansion requires the original game to play.
  
• 1.67 GB
  

That does-not-make-sense .. did they leave out features from the original so they can charge so much for the expansion?.. (what's with that file size) .. my rant is because HoMM5 should've been better then it turned out & it DID come out awesome, but I doubt that after so much work they're going to improve fundamental stuff that isn't there .. even if 6 ever came out ..

Edited November 15, 2006 by nimd4

[mike9o]

Play the demo. That will give you a good idea of what the game is about.