Ubisoft's new maps for Heroes V
by Alan Rose 
{ Jul 6th 2006 at 11:00AM }
When Ubisoft launched Heroes of Might and Magic V two months ago, the game was cited for being a little thin in the map department. Hoping to tide users over until the map editor is released, the French publisher has announced the availability of two new free maps. The catch? You need to register for an Ubi.com account and opt-in to receive company communications by July 21. Ubisoft will then email you the maps at the end of the month.
See also: Metareview - Heroes of Might and Magic V
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
J B Cougar @ Jul 6th 2006 11:55AM
Looks like Joystiq readers may need a map to a store carrying this game, because interest is nil - at least according to comments here.
baberg @ Jul 6th 2006 12:02PM
I played HOMM5, didn't get past the second mission. The 3D aspect of it served only one purpose - causing slowdown. When you have the full map explored and panned the camera down, it would begin to animate every single widget across the entire board at once, no matter if it was viewable or not. That caused ridiculous slowdown for me.
The UI was also pretty poor. You double-click on a city icon to open the city, but there was no indication that the load was in progress, so while it was loading the 3D fly-by of the city (totally superfluous) you would think "Did it not get my clicks?" and click again, only to have it finally catch up, and interpret your extra click as being a commmand.
The gameplay itself was pretty poor too. No real strategy that I could find besides overwhelming numbers. Get yourself 200 archers and put the game on Auto-combat to see them take out the entire battlefield.
And I'm a fan of strategy games too.
rts_guru @ Jul 6th 2006 12:08PM
It's a holiday and most people are on vacation this week, Cougar. There have been comments in past postings for this game, and I think most owners are probably spending their time actually playing it. Not every post can (or should) be about WoW and the Wii.
J B Cougar @ Jul 6th 2006 12:48PM
RTS, ya got me. I'm secretly working a Joystiq-based viral campaign to boost awareness of UBisoft and Heroes 5. Guilty.
HaloBreaker @ Jul 6th 2006 6:56PM
Well atleast they don't call it a booster and charge money for it. Just want to see some fan based responces.
t-diddy @ Jul 10th 2006 2:25AM
it's a shame that 3-DO couldn't keep at least this one going. Heroes 4 actually gave me carpel tunnels and a strained muscle in my back from hunching over the computer playing it for hours on end. Another great series gone to hell.
Morkrig @ Jul 28th 2006 5:54PM
Thank u..
heroes vet @ Jul 28th 2006 10:26PM
ok guys, don't be so critical, its not a bad game at all, some issues yes, but the gameplay is all heroes, and what dumass does Auto Combat, thats for noobs....pls multiplayer duels in hotseat (with patch 1.2) are so cool, heroes more useful then Heroes III(best of series by far, Heroes IV almost ruined it) but not as stupid as Heroes IV. Spells look better, cooler battle options with the obstacles possibly blocking bigger creatures. Heroes I, II, III and IV are better in some areas, but Heroes V is a pretty good game for the first time publishers of series, hopefully next one or expansion will get UI and stuff right, and MAP EDITOR PLEASE :P neways i say its 3.5-4 outta 5