Heroes of Might and Magic 4 for PC

Important Product Information
Expect this item to arrive in jewel case packaging.

Overview
With an all-new engine that features a new magic system, new campaigns, new hero-character classes, and gameplay that varies according to how you play, you'll be amazed at how much the Heroes you know and love has improved!

Newcomers to Heroes of Might and Magic will find that, while the game includes very detailed scenarios and hero possibilities, the series itself is renowned for its ease of use.

Much of your time will be spent exploring the maps and continents, collecting resources, and engaging the enemy in battle. Visit towns, explore forests, raid castles... each of these places is a new opportunity to build up your army, earn gold, and gain new territory and hero characters!

Genesis of a New World
Some prophecies of doom come true. Escape the flames licking at your back and jump quickly through a portal into another world for only the bold will be allowed to live.

Embrace a wondrous new land. Uncover its ancient mysteries, battle its deadly creatures, and explore its forgotten past. Here lies gods who have been silent all too long. Here lies a realm that can only be claimed by the strong, the crafty, or the wise. It is yours to conquer!

Features
For the first time ever, bring hero-characters into battle as super-soldiers in your army! All-new game engine. All-new isometric viewpoint and informative interface.

Tweak the new personal scenarios and map editor to make levels and quests for your friends. Over 140 hours of gameplay and 6 unique campaigns. 11 starting Hero classes, 37 advanced classes, choose the specific classes of each member in your army. New magic system, complete Hero customization at your fingertips. 60 varied creature classes to control.

Adventure Map
More than 300 Adventure Map structures to interact with. Resource mines appear in multiple states: undeveloped resource deposit, working mine, abandoned mine (guarded by creatures), and run-out mine (no longer producing resources).

New "Fog of War" map effect, clear for recently explored terrain, gray in areas visited in the past, and black for areas not yet visited. Watch out for Wandering Monsters.

If they find any of your armies and they think they can take them out, prepare for battle! Creature stacks controlled by the player will run away if overpowered, join your army if they feel like it, or fight.

Hero Classes, Creatures and Armies
Each player can control up to 8 armies, each consisting of up to 7 individual hero-characters and/or troops of creatures. 11 starting Hero Classes, each with two starting skills (Barbarians have 3), and 37 advanced Hero Classes.

9 Hero Primary Skills, each with 3 associated Secondary Skills (27 total). 66 types of creatures. Hero-characters and creatures have similar stats, Damage, Hit Points, Speed, Movement, Spell Points, Shots, Luck, and Morale.

Hero-characters of any class can equip themselves with any artifact. Creatures have a backpack so that they may carry but not equip artifacts.

Combat
Each combat screen grid can be a different terrain, with associated bonuses and negatives for Hero Classes/Creatures. Hero Classes can participate in combat, they can move, attack, defend and retaliate just like creatures!

Combatants can face in 8 different directions on the Combat Screen. In siege combat, Creatures at the base of a town wall can attack defenders at the top of a wall and vice-versa.

Towns
Six town types including Academy, Haven, Preserve, Asylum, Necropolis and Stronghold. Outpost towns may be captured by the player and converted into any of the six town types. 5 Schools of Magic - Life, Order, Death, Chaos, and Nature.