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Heroes of Might and Magic V

buggy buggy buggy disappointment

Written by NT from Denver

Nov 17, 2007

I bought this game shortly after buying my new Mac Pro to have a NEW game running on my lovely new Mac. HoMM is an awesome game, but this port of HoMM is a HUGE disappointment because it is more buggy than any game I have ever played on the Mac platform - 15 years. It is rare that I give a bad public review because I don't want bad programming to reflect on Macs in general or provide less incentive for new Mac games, but this really is NOT at all acceptable for a game to crash like this on the top desktop Mac with 5G of RAM. The 1.5 patch is only a band-aid. The game continues to be substandard. I don't recommend it to anyone but the very desperate - unless you know programming and can teach Freeverse how to fix the many many bugs. Now I know better - I will never buy another port when they are first released even though I'm sure that discourages future Mac games. But it's not worth it to choose from thousands of buggy games that you pay full price for. There are freeware and inexpensive shareware games available that are very stable, so I will support those developers.

31 of 48 people found this useful

Heroes of Might and Magic V

Worst Strategy Game Ever

Written by AB from BRONXVILLE

Nov 11, 2007

I'm really not sure how anyone could find this game remotely entertaining. Every action is a chore (even battles) none of the controls are intuitive, it runs slowly, and none of the progress you make in one level carries over to the next. You spend all this time developing and progressing your Heroes (the title of the game, for crying out loud) and none of that progress is recognized in the next mission. With only a handful of games out there available for Mac, how is it that such a terrible game made the cut? You can download free games off the internet that are much, much better. What's the return policy on this tripe?

21 of 47 people found this useful

Heroes of Might and Magic V

Not worth the money

Written by RH from Chatsworth

Jul 21, 2007

The game looks great and is actually fun when it works. However, Freeverse seem to have done a rather poor job of porting it. To make matters worse, it seems they have no desire or perhaps lack of talent in correcting the issues that currently plague it.

37 of 77 people found this useful

Heroes of Might and Magic V

Five months and no patch

Written by JB from Atlantic Highlands

Jul 16, 2007

Don't even consider this great game until the idiots who run Freeverse, the company that attempted to port it to Mac (and brilliantly only for Intel machines), sends out a patch to fix the multitude of bugs and crashes.

I have been playing the game with all sorts of jury rigs for five months waiting for them to get a patch out.

Truly sad.

They have changed the layout and graphics of their website, but can't get a patch out to people who paid $50.00 for their product.

27 of 45 people found this useful

Heroes of Might and Magic V

avoid this game

Written by JW from forest city

Jul 13, 2007

While I'll agree with other reviews that say this game has the potential to be a fine RPG, the fact alone that it constantly crashes makes it a bad purchase. Beyond that, after I made it to the third campaign it again crashed and along with being unable to open ANY saved games, auto or otherwise, it now closes out everytime I try to even open the campaign mode. This makes the game unplayable, literally. I implore everyone out there not to give money to people who make inferior products, we only encourage them.

By the way, I'm giving this ridiculous waste of money 1 star because it won't allow me to give it none.

30 of 45 people found this useful

Heroes of Might and Magic V

Fun but flawed

Written by MR

Jun 5, 2007

This is a really fun game and it's great to see more games coming to the Mac. However, this game is very buggy. See the Freeverse support web site before buying this title. It crashes and game data gets corrupted - Freeverse and UBISoft seem to be really behind the 8-ball on this one. Too bad... otherwise it would be a fine game.

49 of 92 people found this useful

Heroes of Might and Magic V

WaYYYYYY to BUGGY!

Written by JK from Flushing

May 24, 2007

The game won't even let me play anywhere from chapter 3 ON, because it's so BUGGY!!!... The Chapter window select shows a blank screen where I should be able to choose my next set of missions... Apple, SELL ONLY PRODUCTS THAT WORK!!! Keeping products that act like this on the shelves soils your name!!!!!!

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