The flanking mechanic is of little novelty - it would have much more impact if they decided to implement hex fields back. Every unit can find its use and once again you can merge various towns' units (the convert mechanic from Heroes 6 was just awful in the long run).

The combat is great, heroes' development is way much better than in the previous game, although they need to bring back the random factor of Heroes 3. Eventually the developer will hire someone who knows what made Heroes 3 towns so great. I'm still to be provided with the classic functional town screens from Heroes 1/2/3/4. Unfortunately the town's screens are a step back from the Heroes 6 and they're just an incoherent mess. Cities are once again a small utility on a strategic map and don't cover the half of your screen, every utility is greatly stipulated for the sake of strategic layer of the game. Finally they ditched an awful strategic map's trumpery where you couldn't even plan your movement right and they went back to the small environment pieces from pre-HoMM4. But, the actual gameplay is a great step into right direction. Still manages to have quicker AI turns than Heroes 5, though. The game runs badly, animations lack frames and have strange delay to them, sound effects are poor and the UI functionality is not consistent.

Maybe the backleash wouldn't be so serious IF IT WASN'T A FULL PRICED release. Still The game flopped due to technical problems and sub-par graphic's quality (it objectively looks worse than the previous one). The game flopped due to technical problems and sub-par graphic's quality (it objectively looks worse than the previous one).

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