Then there’s the janky animations seen in combat. Even the creatures suffer from this with uninspiring, drab designs. There’s a general lack of detail within the world’s textures, especially notable in combat, that makes the world seem dull and lifeless.
There is, of course, still the possibility that these frozen beings are a genuine glitch that’s affecting everyone.Īctually the audio and visual quality of game across the board is surprisingly sub-par for a game with a Triple-A price point.
But more precisely it’s almost like watching a cutscene where the developer’s ran out of money at exactly the point where the character’s needed to be animated. It’s like watching a table surrounded by corpses staring into space, the voices being provided by people standing just outside of the camera’s field of vision in some sort of macabre joke. At first I thought it was some sort of horrible glitch and I consulted the forums to see how many others were suffering from it, but on further inspection it seems that this strange ability to speak without moving one’s mouth isn’t a glitch. A voice floats through the air and the camera zooms into the character’s face, but their lips aren’t moving. Visually it’s not exactly impressive thanks to a lot of rough edges, so-so models and flat design, but it’s not terrible. Take, for example, the strange case of the game’s cinematics they appear to be full rendered 3D scenes with the camera moving around the environment, swooping in to a council made up of various races, headed by one Ivan, a leader seeking to take inspiration from tales of old heroes. The audience seems to have a fair point, because while the core gameplay of Heroes 7 is still a lot of fun, it’s also a game with a lot of problems indicating a developer struggling with the series. Doing some research it seems that the series is in an awkward place where the fans may be stopping it from advancing in a meaningful way, while the developers want to innovate but their new features were quickly dismissed by the core audience, although largely because the core audience were adamant that the new features simply weren’t done very well. Even Call of Duty has changed more than this. There’s some small differences here and there, sure, but at its core Heroes 7 is the same game I played all those years ago.
Imagine my surprise to discover that despite some three core games, nine expansions and a good few spin-offs having been put out in the time I’ve been away basically nothing seems to have changed. The last time I touched a Heroes of Might and Magic game was the sublime Heroes of Might & Magic 3, widely regarded as the best game in the entire franchise.
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