Very underappreciated by Gamespot
User Rating: 8.7 | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic PC
The 6.7 review on this is definitely NOT accurate. It does have some basic bugs, but those will eventually be fixed. Every game has SOME flaws when it comes out. Patches will definitely come out, so I won't rate it down for that. This being said, it hasn't crashed yet on my PC, though I do reccomend getting the DVD version. I inputed my cd-key from the store bought version into steam, and it downloaded so I was just going to play it from there. It didn't load though, so I ended up using the DVD version (make sure you have a DVD drive...I had to go buy one just to play.) Anyway it ran perfectly off of the DVD install. Make sure you delete the game content from steam, or it will take up twice the hard drive space. My computer is pretty quick with a Geforce 7600GT, and athlon64 at 2.4 GHz, and a gigabyte of Corsair XMS RAM. Even with this I had to turn some of the graphics settings down (but nothing lower than medium.) HDR causes HUGE performance hits, so turn it off especially with AA on. The gameplay is GREAT fun. Tons of actions, some decent skills, but not so in depth that I'd call it an RPG. Definitely worth the time put into it. The multiplayer is also pretty good fun. I would reccomend this to anyone, but I'd say only if you have a high end PC or it will stutter quite a bit. I am playing on the Vista RC1 release candidate, so maybe you will get better results with winXP, but so far it is running quite smooth this way. 
