- Heroes Of Might And Magic Online

The following news about Heroes III Online was discovered on Gugolka.

New screenshots from the long-delayed Heroes Online have appeared on a fan site. As a reminder, this is a global online game being developed by the Chinese company TQ Digital Entertainment for the Chinese market. Conceptually, Heroes Online is based on Heroes III and was supposed to be released back in late 2005. P.S. There is also a video clip on the site with a 10-second demonstration of a castle siege, but it takes an incredibly long time to download, so it's better to get the clip from here (3.5 MB).

But let's take a closer look at what was previously known about the game and what we have now.

First, let's remember what the game's official site originally looked like:

Now let's look at the ten-second clip showing us a castle siege - download from here

The first conclusions that come to mind: Initially, the game was conceived based on Heroes of Might and Magic 3, and this was immediately apparent from the official site, which looked wonderful with portraits of favorite heroes from the 3rd part. Then the game was in development for a long time and its release kept being postponed. Later, Nival Interactive finished the development of Heroes of Might and Magic 5; perhaps this somehow influenced the development of what was previously called Heroes III Online. Now, this game is simply called Heroes of Might and Magic Online, the portraits of heroes from the 3rd part are gone, and the ten-second video clip of a castle siege from the fan site already shows us 3D graphics, which clearly indicates an orientation toward the 3D that the 5th part of Heroes brought us.
Perhaps the developers decided it was not profitable to develop Heroes III Online in the pseudo-3D that was in the 3rd part once the 5th part had already been released, and decided to do everything in pure 3D. But same old 3D is not all that Heroes fans crave.
In short, we now have Heroes Online in development, which is being developed by the Chinese company TQdigital, and a release date that is currently unknown.

In reality, no one knows yet what the developers are doing or what they have in mind, since the game's official site now says the following:








And this is all no longer in the style of Heroes III, although http://feature.mmosite.com/mightandmagic/ says the following:

Heroes of Might and Magic Online is based on Heroes of Might and Magic III. Playing as a town owner, the player can raise armies inside his own town or in the wild. Through fighting monsters in the wild, they continuously improve their ability and gain necessary resources based on which they can level up their castles, recruit higher level creature and learn higher level magic.
TQ Digital have purchased the develop right of Heroes of Might and Magic Online From Ubisoft.Now MMOsite reveals the exclusive concept arts of mobs for the game.

Maybe the developers decided to redraw all the graphics while maintaining a connection to the plot of Heroes III, although in my opinion it would have been better if the portraits of heroes and monsters had remained from the 3rd part; otherwise, the atmosphere will not be quite what is desired.

A collection of currently existing screenshots from Heroes Online can be beheld here - /topic/1801/