Heroes of Might and Magic IV

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Description

As the fourth installment of the series, Heroes of Might and Magic IV brings many new features to the game while retaining the old interface design and gameplay.

The game still is about exploring huge maps with your heroes and armies, collecting treasures, building up cities, fighting monsters and defeating your foes. There are six new and large campaigns and 24 single scenarios to play. 48 new hero classes and many new skills have been created so the game is even heavier on the strategic side as before. You now can lead multiple heroes to battle as well as separate troops from heroes (so you may move troops alone to another hero).

The new battle screen has now isometric view instead of side perspective. And now your heroes may fight side by side with your soldiers and be used for real battle, not only magic.

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Alternate Titles

• "魔法门之英雄无敌4" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "魔法門英雄無敵四 (主程式 )" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
• "Герои Меча и Магии IV" -- Russian spelling
• "HOMM4" -- Common abbreviation

Part of the Following Groups

• Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
• Fantasy Creatures: Elves
• Fantasy Creatures: Orcs
• Fantasy Creatures: Trolls
• Fantasy Creatures: Unicorns
• Gameplay Feature: Fog of War
• Heroes of Might and Magic series
• Might and Magic universe

User Reviews

The best of all HoMM...	Windows	Pirou Julien (2985)
Worst Heroes of Might and Magic game	Windows	Alex Z (1879)
An ambitious attempt to enhance the HMM predecessors, a treat for HMM fans!	Windows	Indra was here (20926)
Much better than HMM 5!	Windows	Spag (70)

Critic Reviews

Svenska PC Gamer	Windows	Apr, 2002	91 out of 100	91
Gamesmania.de	Windows	May 14, 2002	89 out of 100	89
GameSpot	Windows	Apr 02, 2002	8.8 out of 10	88
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Apr 26, 2002	17 out of 20	85
Game Over Online	Windows	Apr 24, 2002	85 out of 100	85
Inside Mac Games (IMG)	Macintosh	Jan 17, 2003	7.75 out of 10	78
Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	May 31, 2002	71 out of 100	71
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Windows	May 26, 2002	6 out of 10	60
Macworld	Macintosh	Apr 18, 2003		60
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Windows	Jul, 2002		50

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Trivia

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • April 2003 (Issue #225) – Coaster of the Year (together with Might and Magic IX)

Related Web Sites

• Celestial Heavens (Tons of informations and dozens of additional maps & campaigns)
• Heroes of Might and Magic IV Resource Center (Everything you need to know about Heroes of Might and Magic IV.)
• New Heroes for a New World (An Apple Games article about the Mac version of Heroes of Might and Magic IV, with commentary being provided by Brand Manager Chaz Fitzhugh (November, 2002).)
• Official site for Heroes of Might and Magic IV (Official site.)
• Torre de Marfil (Spanish fansite of the saga)