Rating: Summary: Tremendous value Review: for RPG addicts, and nostalgic gamers. Big problem:if you dont have Windows 95 or 98, you will not be able to play the first two epics. So beware.
Rating: Summary: Best value for the money, but lots of repeatition Review: I am a big fan of the M & M Roll playing games.The reason I rated this product one star is because the games won't run on the Direct X 8.0 program. New computers are equipped with Direct X 8.0. Forget about downloading Direct X 6.1 from the internet, the only thing out there is the newer version Direct X 8.0. Forget about any support from the 3 DO company either. I have sent them 2 e mails addressing this issue. No response. I called the 3 DO hotline also. After waiting on hold for ten minutes, I gave up and hung up. Very frustrating because I enjoy these games.
Rating: Summary: Direct X 6.1 is obsolete on New Computers Review: I am a big fan of the M & M Roll playing games. The reason I rated this product one star is because the games won't run on the Direct X 8.0 program. New computers are equipped with Direct X 8.0. Forget about downloading Direct X 6.1 from the internet, the only thing out there is the newer version Direct X 8.0. Forget about any support from the 3 DO company either. I have sent them 2 e mails addressing this issue. No response. I called the 3 DO hotline also. After waiting on hold for ten minutes, I gave up and hung up. Very frustrating because I enjoy these games.
Rating: Summary: Love This Review: I bought this as soon as I saw it. Its worth your money even if you own one or more of the games in this product because you'll probably spend more buying them separately. I love Might and Magic IV and V that have fun gameply and even cooler introduction video.
Rating: Summary: You can play with windows xp Review: I bought this game orginally when I had a Windows 98 computer. Last year I decided to pull it out and play it again, only this time I had a Windows XP computer. At first it would install 6 and 7 but I could not play them. I figured it had something to do with compatibilty, so after playing around a bit I changed (in the program folder) all the .exe files to run in compatilbilty mode for windows 98. IT WORKS GREAT! Side note: Last week I was playing around with MM8 and discovered that you have to start this from the cd and in compatibilty mode to work properly. If you have questions you can always let me know and I can try to help a fellow gamer out. [...]
Rating: Summary: Best classic RPGs ever Review: I don't have this collection, but I have played all of the games on here separately and they were great. The Might and Magic Xeen games are the best of the 80's RPGs games, in my opinion. Might and Magic 6 and 7 were pretty good, I think 6 was much better. 6 was the most difficult of the Might and Magic games, but I like a good challenge. If you've never played the Might and Magic series, but you enjoy sword-and-sorcery RPGs with challenging puzzles and quests, I recommend giving them a try.
Rating: Summary: Best classic RPGs ever Review: I don't have this collection, but I have played all of the games on here separately and they were great. The Might and Magic Xeen games are the best of the 80's RPGs games, in my opinion. Might and Magic 6 and 7 were pretty good, I think 6 was much better. 6 was the most difficult of the Might and Magic games, but I like a good challenge. If you've never played the Might and Magic series, but you enjoy sword-and-sorcery RPGs with challenging puzzles and quests, I recommend giving them a try.
Rating: Summary: My favorite RPG Review: I love this game, way more than I liked newer games with better graphics, like Diablo or Baldur's Gate (even though I did like Diablo and Baldur's Gate). What's so special about it?
1) In other games, I sometimes felt as if I were slogging through a level. In MM6, something is always happening. One goes up in level quite often, so there are new spells or better skills or new weapons or more armor or some goodie or the other every time you turn around. Most of the monsters have a least a couple of goldpieces, so nearly every critter killed gives you something. This makes the game very addictive -- just get one more level, and you can get that skill you want; just kill five more monsters and you can afford that armor. What? It's 4 a.m.?
2) One can play battles in real time or in turn-based mode. I have truly miserable hand-eye coordination, and many video games are simply too hard for me and thus not fun. This game lets the dexterous play in real time, but the turn-based option lets those of us who are nondexterous play, too. I wish every game had a turn-based option! Also in this vein, you use your characters' skills to attack monsters, not your own, so you don't have to line up a blow with a sword or an arrow from a bow or a fireball from a wizard -- you just tell your charcters whom you want them to attack, and they figure it out. You figure the strategy; your characters handle the hand-eye coordination. That's why they're the adventurers, and you're sitting at a computer. :-)
3) The party is large enough that one gets to take advantage of several different types of skills -- you can have a fighter, a mage, a cleric, AND an archer -- but they move as a unit, so the game doesn't descend into the chaos that some other RPG's do.
4) Many recent RPG's seem to be so concerned with realism that they've sacrificed gameplay -- just as one example, I've played RPG's where archers are always having to run back to town to buy more arrows, even if they buy 500 at a time. In MM6, there's some concern with realism but more concern with gameplay. If you have a bow, it's assumed that you have arrows to go with it -- you never have to buy any. There are some space limitations, but no weight limitations, so if it fits in your space allotment, you can carry it.
5) The Mandate Mania website (run by a fan, not the official site) is one of the most helpful game websites I've ever seen. They give LOTS of information, and it's very well organized.
6) I could go on and on, but this is long enough. :-) The game is fun and charming, reasonably easy without being dull, and has lots of skills, quests, places, and items.
Rating: Summary: Best value for the money, but lots of repeatition Review: If you want either M&M6 or M&M7 then this is the best value for the money. But here's the thing, I played M&M6 a couple of years ago so I bought this. M&M7 really is more of the same. The graphics are the same (moderatly good for 1999, rather weak for today) as M&M6. The gameplay is mainly hack & slash. Travel to somewhere and kill the monsters. Travel somewhere else and kill some more monsters. ad infinitum. I find myself playing it mainly just to finish the game, but I pretty much lost interest days ago. But if you like this kind of game (and I do) then you have at least a couple of hundred hours ahead of you.
Rating: Summary: Review for Might and Magic VI - The Mandate of Heaven Review: MMVI is one of the best RPGs available. I like it better than the flashy new ones, because it runs smoothly, the text-size is not displayed in tiny microfont, the game is long, and for many other reasons. It is not over-complicated, and it is generally very fun to play. The story is intriguing and complex, and will keep you interested. The dungeons and caves are surprisingly large and not easy to negotiate. The countless enemies are very challenging to beat, and the Overworld is gigantic.
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