Daron

Great game with beautiful aesthetics (employing impressionist art style). The strong narrative makes this game an appropriate journey back to WW1 , with the main focus centered on the humanity of the protagonists in the midst of war. In terms of gameplay, it is simplistic and pretty linear , with some fetch quests and puzzles. But again, the gameplay is not the selling point of the game. Rather, it is the narrative, and given that this was so beautifully presented , it was really an appropriate tribute for Remembrance Day . Controls were easy and game was easy to manoeuvre with the controller. Minor bugs were detected, but nothing that detracted from the gameplay.

Update: I just completed the Dungeon campaign today (managed to get into the game on the 2nd of May). Some people who have not played Heroes of Might and Magic V may probably not understand some parts of the story line, but that isn't critical to the game. I did have some occasional glitches in the battle maps (map items like rocks, braziers etc appearing very large, absence of gridlines), but nothing really that significant that a reload couldn't solve. The only glitch that I couldnt not find a solution for, was the mana required to cast some of Sorshan's spells. Mass regeneration takes up like 40 mana, but Mass Drain Life 217 mana, especially frm a Magic Hero? Seems like a bug? But that said, it wasn't a biggie since the main hero i.e Raelag, wasn't affected by the bug. I hope those who had problems with the game will give the game a chance...assuming you guys can get into the game i.e Sure, Ubisoft **** in the DRM and Conflux, but once you get over that, and play the game proper, it is pretty good. (PS :when conflux was down today for server maintenance, I replayed the 1st HoMM campaign again offline, just to check if there my game had any problems that some people complained about. I played Duke Slava's 1st mission without any problems as well. I had also forgotten how funny Kraal and the orcs can be! (from my first play thru when HoMM 6 was first released).