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Storm-Giant said:

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Bago Games: 90/100

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As I stated in the Heroes 7 Beta preview, the visuals in the game are stunning. The overworlds, combat maps, and units are all very nicely detailed and colorful — But the crown jewel in my eyes has to be the city screens. Theses screens are 100% gorgeous and give me a nostalgic Heroes 2 & 3 feel.
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Another great part about the cities is simply how many buildings you can have per city type. While Heroes 5 & 6 had few buildings per city type, Heroes 7 has around 30 different buildings for each kind of city.

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I'm fully aware that reviews are subjective and that tastes differ, but this to me just goes to show that I put very little value in the score of this particular reviewer because we seem to have completely opposite opinions.

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Dies_Irae said:

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That doesn't have to mean that this reviewer's opinion is wrong, though. Our taste is just as subjective as that of the reviewers. What one sees as good is perceived as bad by the other...

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alcibiades said:

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Dies_Irae said:

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That doesn't have to mean that this reviewer's opinion is wrong, though. Our taste is just as subjective as that of the reviewers. What one sees as good is perceived as bad by the other...

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Absolutely.

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ExServ (Gamekult) said:

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This willingness to respect the original recipe at any cost is double-edged. The combat phases certainly are reminiscent of old titles of New World Computing. And if in the last century, one could describe as strategic choice to face front or through his opponent, it is more difficult to say the same today.

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Another great part about the cities is simply how many buildings you can have per city type. While Heroes 5 & 6 had few buildings per city type, Heroes 7 has around 30 different buildings for each kind of city.

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Corpse-like animations

The full-screen cutscenes, whether procedurally generated as part of battles or in the stories told by Ivan’s advisers in the campaign, proved incredibly disappointing. They frankly look atrocious: clunky, ugly, reminiscent of games released a decade or more ago.

People are drawn as frozen statues, with little detail. None of the voice acting in campaign cutscenes animates at all; instead, the advisers are left frozen, mouths hanging open, as the game camera pans over them.

The tiny combat animations of your units typically look fine, if sometimes slow. But the chessboard-like battlefields they play on sometimes oddly de-rez, making the game board appear a bit rough.

If this were a tiny indie title, perhaps I could forgive the faults due to lack of financial backing. But the latest installment in one of the premiere fantasy-strategy series ever published, released by the world’s third-largest independent publishing house? Come on.

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Might & Magic Heroes VII offers well told story and a potentially solid turn based experience but is still unfinished.

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Corpse-like animations

The full-screen cutscenes, whether procedurally generated as part of battles or in the stories told by Ivan’s advisers in the campaign, proved incredibly disappointing. They frankly look atrocious: clunky, ugly, reminiscent of games released a decade or more ago.

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So there’s definitely no shortage of stuff to do. The campaigns alone will fill at minimum a few weeks of nightly play...The question is whether it’s any fun.

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It manages to scratch a very old PC gaming itch, at least between the awful cutscenes and performance problems.

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Deeply flawed, Might & Magic Heroes VII rests on solid foundations but ultimately ruins them with horrible performance, game-breaking bugs and poor presentation.

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