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If you compare the fifth and third installments, the comparison will likely favor the former in many aspects.
Interestingly, according to XEL, Greengeez creates the atmosphere of the game.
What about the storyline of the campaigns? Here, the fifth installment offers more than any other part, both in individual missions and overall. The campaigns in the third installment are definitely the worst in the entire series. There aren't even any memorable moments, like the campaign for Goldot in the fourth installment.
Graphics? If someone really likes the graphics in Heroes 3, they should find a place for the icon in their home and see what's hanging there. There are definitely some good moments, but there are also plenty of ugly ones. Yes, it's not logical to compare it to the 3D graphics of the fifth installment, as too much time has passed, but the third installment wasn't more beautiful than the other "flat" installments; rather, the opposite.
Music? Again, the fifth installment has the best music.
The third installment has many advantages: stability (the fifth installment still sometimes glitches, and the fourth installment consumes a huge amount of RAM), excellent playability, and incredible excitement.
But there was never any balance, which is why they came up with so many tournament patches, wild randomness in the power of artifacts and spells, and practically complete consistency regarding the optimal hero upgrade for a specific race and map type, for example, random XL.
And even though the hero has 8 slots, Logistics, Wisdom, Earth, Air, Attack, and Defense are almost always desirable, which is already 6 skills.
The fifth installment has its own drawbacks, but there, perhaps for the first time in the series, a balance between races appeared.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to find people for an objective comparison of the fifth installment with other parts, for example, those who started playing all the parts around the same time and are not particularly fond of 3D, but I know a few such people. And in their opinion, Heroes 5 is far from being at the bottom of the list, and yet the comparison is with masterpieces.
Interestingly, according to XEL, Greengeez creates the atmosphere of the game.
What about the storyline of the campaigns? Here, the fifth installment offers more than any other part, both in individual missions and overall. The campaigns in the third installment are definitely the worst in the entire series. There aren't even any memorable moments, like the campaign for Goldot in the fourth installment.
Graphics? If someone really likes the graphics in Heroes 3, they should find a place for the icon in their home and see what's hanging there. There are definitely some good moments, but there are also plenty of ugly ones. Yes, it's not logical to compare it to the 3D graphics of the fifth installment, as too much time has passed, but the third installment wasn't more beautiful than the other "flat" installments; rather, the opposite.
Music? Again, the fifth installment has the best music.
The third installment has many advantages: stability (the fifth installment still sometimes glitches, and the fourth installment consumes a huge amount of RAM), excellent playability, and incredible excitement.
But there was never any balance, which is why they came up with so many tournament patches, wild randomness in the power of artifacts and spells, and practically complete consistency regarding the optimal hero upgrade for a specific race and map type, for example, random XL.
And even though the hero has 8 slots, Logistics, Wisdom, Earth, Air, Attack, and Defense are almost always desirable, which is already 6 skills.
The fifth installment has its own drawbacks, but there, perhaps for the first time in the series, a balance between races appeared.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to find people for an objective comparison of the fifth installment with other parts, for example, those who started playing all the parts around the same time and are not particularly fond of 3D, but I know a few such people. And in their opinion, Heroes 5 is far from being at the bottom of the list, and yet the comparison is with masterpieces.
