Addictive as any part of the series, however has it's problems
Back to this particular game. It's good as any of the people have expected. It has the addictive quality that was present through the whole series and the most important things have been tweaked with responsibility of staying true to the prequels. However there are some issues that I noticed very early in the game.
The issues that I would like to talk about are that for the first time in the series the designers have left the good old interface of the game to make a simplified version that would give you a larger view of the game world. I respect that but it just has that "something's not just right" kind of feeling. I miss things, sometimes I need to look for them in unlogical places, but then again you get used to it.
The graphics are really good (although you won't get much oportunity to look at the units in detail) but i was really pleasantly surprised with the music. It is non intrusive but then again gives that perfect coloration of the visual things in the game.
One thing that i think is a bit of a problem (for all you old Heroes fans) is that you can not have units wandering the world without heroes. That is an issue in case that you need to change the unit (in case your enemy's units want to join you) with what you have in the army. if you incorporate the new unit in the army, the unit that you took out just disappears. In case you don't want to change, the ones who joined you disappear. It would be nice to be to use these units somewhere else if not in your army but ...
Anyhow, the game is great. To all the people that appreciate the Heroes universe and the whole turn-based game-play it will give endless hours of fun and for those not familiar it will soon become one of the games you play over and over.
Shortly put, go get it. :)