A fair trade for the new graphics? Perhaps, except for one problem-the complete GOG edition is half the price (and even the iPad edition also a couple of quid cheaper…). This one is simply the vanilla original, thanks to the source code having long since been lost. The GOG.COM version is also the complete HOMM3 series, complete with expansion campaigns and most importantly, a random map generator. Put against the original game, the difference isn’t even particularly noticeable. Updated or not, it was never going to out-shine the prettiness of successors like Age of Wonders III. You don’t get the new sprites that way, but this is a turn-based 2D game from 1999. The original version of HOMMIII is already available on GOG.COM, and fans have long since modded it to run at modern desktop resolutions.
The redrawn graphics are okay, if nothing particularly special, but there’s a problem. Instead, it’s hard to recommend anyone buy it.
