Author: TheAleosha

I begin to understand what they tried to do. Which doesn’t mean I like it. The authors added a global experience that is shared across campaigns. And that experience allows you to pick better traits at the start of your next map.

There are also artifacts called Dynasty weapons which you find through the campaign. Those are also shared across all your heroes. And those artifacts have their own global experience across all campaigns. Those break the campaign completely. The only thing cool about them is that the hero is shown in cutscenes holding that particular weapon.

In the first mission of the Infreno campaign, you end up turning into a demon and battling an entire army alone.

In the second mission of Orcs campaign, there’s an interesting turn of events: you’re given two mutually exclusive objectives, and depending on which you complete, your hero receives a class specialization. Don’t remember this in any other Heroes game.

Why do I hate Uplay?
You have to login into it every time you start the game after restart.
It limits you to 10 saves. I’m not joking. 10 saves.
If your connection is interrupted, you’re kicked out of your singleplayer campaign. If you were in a battle, you have to replay it from the beginning.

After many years, I decided to give another chance to Heroes of Might&Magic 6. When I first played it, it felt that the campaign was completely broken. And not only to me.

Enemy hero would come at you with a huge army, and even if you manage to beat him once, he would amass it again at an incredible speed. Not sure if that was balanced out somewhat. But the only way I managed to beat some of the sieges is by creating a bucket brigade of heroes passing armies from one another as quickly as possible. Obviously, this is extremely boring.
Also, there is still a problem that the combat is incredibly slow. Units are too sturdy, and you just spend turn after turn trading blows.

They did invest a lot into a storyline, but it is still a mess.
The story follows duke Slava and his five children, representing the different factions in the game. How one of his children ends up being a barbarian, another an undead necromancer, a third one a demon, and fourth a crazy fanatic (although this one is kind of obvious)? Well, that’s a long story. And it’s not told in any order.
For example the first campaign after the tutorial is Necropolis, playing as ressurected Anastasya. But her brother executes her for assassinating their father only in the 2nd campaign.
In the 3rd campaign we play as Irina, a magic user that is released from a cell where her husband put her by her brother from the 5th campaign. Confused already?