Which Heroes of Might and Magic game was the best?

Here is how I would rank them

1) Heroes III (along with Armageddon's Blade, Shadow of Death, and Heroes Chronicles)- This is the best game of the series, no question about it. Nine town types....NINE...with unique cities such as the Fortress (swamp town) found in no other heroes game. It has a great storyline, easy to play, tough to master. Not only do I think this is the best heroes game, but it is the best strategy game as well.

2) Heroes II (along with Price of Loyalty) - this is the game that put the series on the map, I like the set up, good brother vs evil brother, for the throne. The Necromancer and Wizard castles were excellent editions. Kind of difficult though in campaign mode.

3) Heroes V (along with Hammers of Fate and Tribes of the East) - kind of like a 3d version of Heroes III, but the storyline is much weaker and I hated how they added 2 towns in the expansions that should have been in the first game. Still a fun game, gamplay is very good, but it is kind of too complex, unlike III, and I liked III's towns slightly better.

4) Heroes IV (along with Gathering Storm and Winds of War) I think the campaigns in the normal game have the best written and plotted storylines in the series by far (especially the Nature campaign) and I liked how the Might campaign wrapped up Heroes Chronicles. But the gameplay is wack and unbalanced. Heroes fighting on the battlefield can be very unbalanced and Order magic was way too strong. Only six town types too (life, death, order, chaos, nature, and might), a step back from III. The xpac's were skimpy as well.

5) Heroes I (no expansion) You had to start somewhere...................

Individual categories...

Best Gameplay - III

Best Graphics - V

Best Art - II, but I do love III's and V's as well

Best Soundtrack - IV by far

Best Storyline - IV, but III is close

Best Value - III

tie between heros 2 and 3 for me.

Unfortunately I never got to finish the original from the NES days! :cry: (Don't drink beverages near your console! :oops: ) So I can only say that #1 was my favorite, but I am an antique gamer, anyway.

Definitely Heroes III. I not only consider it the best entry in the series, but one of the very best games I ever had the pleasure of playing. I played it on and off for about 7 years. It's absolutely brilliant in every possible aspect. Heroes V is great as well because, like you said, it's basically Heroes III in 3D. Heroes II was the first one I played, but it didn't capture my heart in the way Heroes III managed to. Heroes IV is one of the most disappointing games ever made. They managed to ruin almost everything that made Heroes fantastic and made some questionable-at-best design choices.

Heroes 3 without a doubt, It is a good mix between complexity and accesability.

It has the most factions who all seem fiarly different, and I really like the asthetics.

it is best with all the patches tbh... I really loved that game ^^

I prefer HoMM2.

Definitely Heroes III. I not only consider it the best entry in the series, but one of the very best games I ever had the pleasure of playing. I played it on and off for about 7 years. It's absolutely brilliant in every possible aspect. Heroes V is great as well because, like you said, it's basically Heroes III in 3D. Heroes II was the first one I played, but it didn't capture my heart in the way Heroes III managed to. Heroes IV is one of the most disappointing games ever made. They managed to ruin almost everything that made Heroes fantastic and made some questionable-at-best design choices.

UpInFlames

Heroes II for me. The art style in 3 was too painful to look at.

Heroes II for me. The art style in 3 was too painful to look at.

dchan01

Heroes III. I remember playing HoMM IV right after - man that was one big e-drama. HoMM V isn't bad but still worse than HoMM III.

I still play Heroes III with great pleasure. I don't need 3-d graphics. Great 10 out of 5. One of the greatest game ever made along with Diablo and NFS.shniager