Heroes of Might and Magic III HD Edition

[Bateluer]

https://mmh7.ubi.com/en/blog/post/view/a-special-announcement

Dear Councillors and Heroes fans,

With the end of the year approaching, we are coming close to a key milestone for the Heroes saga. Indeed, as many of you already know, this year marks the 15th anniversary of the acclaimed Heroes of Might & Magic III – The Restoration of Erathia but also the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Heroes saga!

To celebrate those great events, we decided to fulfil a great project we have been thinking of for many years now. Last year we identified a competent partner to work with (aka DotEmu) and started to give birth to a new experience for all the fans of Heroes III – Restoration of Erathia!

Heroes of Might & Magic III – HD Edition will be available on 2015/01/29 on Android tablets, Ipad and PC!

As Heroes fans ourselves, we know that nothing we could have done on this title would have surpassed the original game and this never has been our intention since the beginning of this project. Our objective with HOMM3 – HD Edition is to offer a new way to experience Heroes III on iOS and Android, alone or with friends thanks to the acclaimed hotseat mode (no more boring long train journeys!). To also please our PC fans we have worked on a Steamworks version of Heroes 3 RoE! If you want to try the game after all those years, play it again in HD and benefit from Steam multiplayer features, this version is made for you!

Community team note: But why only RoE? To understand the origin of the project and its development we need to go back to 2003. At that time we asked New World Computing to retrieve their archives for all the Might & Magic titles. We found tons of documentation and data but regarding Heroes III we had nothing but the usable source code of Heroes III Restoration of Erathia.

Please take note that this article is an exception due to a special announcement and this website will continue to focus on M&M Heroes VII. For more information about Heroes III – HD edition, please visit official page on http://bit.ly/homm3-hd and M&M Facebook/Twitter accounts.

Thoughts?

 

[shortylickens]

:awe:

 

[shredz]

Depending on the price for Ipad, this might be a day one purchase for me!!!

 

[AlexAL]

Awesome

 

[Qbah]

Getting it on my iPad day 1 :awe:

 

[Possessed Freak]

Getting it on my iPad day 1 :awe:

Same.

 

[Anteaus]

I'm still torn over which was my favorite HOMM game...either Part 2 or this one. Assuming the price isn't irrationally high I'm going to get this at release.

 

[clok1966]

Dang I was so excited i was thinking Might & Magic III (Xeen) oh well, still nice to see the HOMM getting some love.

 

[biostud]

Hopefully they will do the "In the wake of Gods" mod too

 

[Denithor]

Dang I was so excited i was thinking Might & Magic III (Xeen) oh well, still nice to see the HOMM getting some love.

That was my first thought, too. Then I noticed it's HOMM not M&M. Sigh.

 

[Qbah]

Bummer it's only RoE though... no random maps, those only came with Armageddon's blade That was the best part of HOMM3.

 

[Bateluer]

As an aside, if you want something a little newer and don't want to give money to Ubi Soft, GoG has several Kings Bounty titles on sale on the moment.

http://www.gog.com/game/kings_bounty_warriors_of_the_north_complete_edition

 

[motsm]

As an aside, if you want something a little newer and don't want to give money to Ubi Soft, GoG has several Kings Bounty titles on sale on the moment.

http://www.gog.com/game/kings_bounty_warriors_of_the_north_complete_edition

I completed The Legend a while ago, and am playing Crossworlds right now, just really great games. Though I'd really like to see a full sequel at this point, as WOTN and DS both look like more semi sequel/expansion releases.

 

[CPA]

Game is out and not looking good for Ubi. Apparently, many gamers were under the assumption, right or wrong, that this would be the "Complete" version. When they found out after purchase it was only the base game and has no random maps, a faction missing from one of the DLC's, many bugs still present and a borked multiplayer, they have commenced to rip the remake apart.

 

[you2]

Well in UBI defense; they made it clear this was not hte complete version because they couldn't find the assests for the expansion. Having said that it is amusing that community mods can do a better job (at least with the expansions).
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As for the other issues - UBI should be embarrassed but maybe they will fix the issue (though normally they are not very good at that sort of thing - at least with MMX they cut the support super fast.
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Anyways there has been some very decent remake HD release recently but I guess this won't be one of them...

 

[JamesV]

I don't buy that assets argument.

They could get the original, and literally copy every map from the expansion. A decent map editor on one PC and the original running on another, and I'd be able to do it easily.

Art could simply be printscreened and touched up... this isn't multiple shaders, but no-post processing 2D art.

This is assuming they can't simply open the assets from the expansions (uses same packaging no?).

Would take some time; apparently they aren't interested in putting it in.

Buying the complete version at some local store for $3, or this new one....hmmmm.

 

[Ns1]

When they found out after purchase it was only the base game and has no random maps, a faction missing from one of the DLC's, many bugs still present and a borked multiplayer, they have commenced to rip the remake apart.

 

[CPA]

Well in UBI defense; they made it clear this was not hte complete version because they couldn't find the assests for the expansion. Having said that it is amusing that community mods can do a better job (at least with the expansions).
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Yeah, I think a lot of folks were expecting a makeover of the "Complete Edition" that you can get on GOG. That version has three expansions, two of which source code is still available but was not included in the HD remake. Only one is missing.

 

[shortylickens]

I had the good sense to wait. All those folks who pre-ordered are ticked off.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Nope, not buying the "we lost the original masters, Greedo has to shoot first" argument.

They've got source code, any half-decent intern could crack open the shipped files for at least the SD assets even if they've lost any higher-resolution art that was down-sampled back in the day.

 

[Anon_lawyer]

Nope, not buying the "we lost the original masters, Greedo has to shoot first" argument.

They've got source code, any half-decent intern could crack open the shipped files for at least the SD assets even if they've lost any higher-resolution art that was down-sampled back in the day.

+1 to this. Why would anyone buy the HD version instead of the complete edition on GOG? Truth be told, the graphics were not great back in the day either, but the game play was and is fantastic. All the sequels since then haven't managed to capture that.

 

[zmaster]

bought it and played it a bit in between waiting for dota 2 to find a match,
at the rate im playing it, they should complete the game before i finish it
sure brings back memories, but i want lord tantrum (sorry tarnum) to make an appearance