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Here is my list of favorite installments:
Heroes 3
Heroes 4
Heroes 2
Heroes 1
Heroes 5

Definitely number two. Because these are the true Heroes, not adapted just to sell copies. Each scenario requires a different tactic. Then comes the first game. Naive, but how great it was in 1995! And it's funny to read about its flaws from someone who hasn't played the first and second games. The third game marks the end of the series. You can play it, but it's somewhat dull. We build a town hall, a city hall, a citadel, a castle, a capitol, armies. Lots of random, pointless scenarios. Of course, there are some excellent maps. And with 3.5, it's just a cash grab, very straightforward. The fifth game is a complete mess. Some random super abilities, pointless upgrades, stupid storylines...

Three and five!
3 - a wonderful plot.
5 - excellent graphics.
P.S. But I prefer the third game.

3.5 is a non-commercial add-on.

A 3.5 non-commercial add-on.

Yes... It's a shame we're finding out about this so late.

The best game in the series. I've been playing it since I was 5, and after the release of new add-ons like AA/SoD/WoG/TE/Phoenix mod, it makes you pay more and more attention to it. A wonderful plot, graphics that don't make your eyes ache even if you played all day (tested), and while it isn't 3D, that's actually better for control (agree that you have to rotate the view camera in the V's?), and painfully simple controls. The music. The music in Heroes III is top-notch; it was written by a professional composer, it doesn't interfere with the game, it's pleasant to the ear, and the rhythms match what's happening on the screen. The game is easy to pick up (unlike the 4th ones, which bankrupted 3DO), everything is intuitively clear. The gameplay is so addictive that it's impossible to tear yourself away. Heroes Chronicles—an interesting idea to tell fans what happened next with their favorite Heroes, but Chronicles is a hack job just to collect money from the game's fans. And after all this, people have the nerve to call Heroes III anything other than the best, the audacity to give a rating lower than 9 out of 10? Heroes of Might and Magic III is Great—yes, a Great game; it will remain in our hearts forever, for it was the triumph of the entire great Might and Magic series (I didn't misspeak, as the plot of Might and Magic runs parallel to the plot of Heroes), and I didn't mind writing this substantial text. And my rating is 10 thousand mln. bln. points out of 10 possible.

Well, out of all the games in the Might and Magic: Heroes series, Heroes 3 isn't the best one.

Which one is the best?

I believe, with good reason, that Might and Magic 3 is a great game.

number two, number four. Number two – these were my first Heroes games, and I really like their graphics and the originality of each faction.
Number four – it's fresh, unique, and original.
And that's all, really. Number three and number five are just good games. It's a pity that in both of them, the sides started to be created in a completely similar way: "flying unit - mage - ranged attacker - melee unit." And there are also a huge number of dragons in them. In number two, the sixth-tier units are completely different from each other. The exception is Necropolis, but it appeared there for the first time.

The fourth and fifth installments. I like the fourth game because it is fundamentally different from the other games in the series; it was a revolution in the world of Heroes, so to speak. As for the fifth game, I appreciate its graphics and the new factions.

I like 5, but 5 has the best graphics! So, fans of the third game, respect!

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And in general, the second game is a classic with very cute animations. I grew up on it, and I love it.

Well, I wouldn't say that Heroes of Might and Magic V is a triumph of graphics. A triumph of graphics is Unreal Tournament 3, or Crysis... but in Heroes of Might and Magic V, the graphics are cartoonish, so it doesn't really fit the generally accepted criteria.

I like 5, but 5 has the best graphics of the series! So, respect to the fans of the third game!

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And in general, the second game is a classic with very cute animations. I grew up on it, and I love it.

Probably, it was meant among the Heroes series, not in general... If we talk about it in general, then, of course, the engine of the fifth game is not new, to put it mildly.

Well, in my opinion, graphics aren't the most important thing, but nevertheless, they squeezed EVERYTHING they could out of the engine of the fifth Heroes game, and they squeezed it neatly into a prepared glass.
My favorite part of the Heroes series... I hadn't seen many people playing Heroes before, so I was ready to play any part of the game, even the dumbest mod (unfortunately, there are some), but the best ones are definitely 3, 4, and 5. Why not 1 and 2?
1 is a bit primitive (very good and complete, perhaps), but it's as if some pieces were removed from chess... I honestly don't remember the plot...
2 is good, but why play the second one when there's the third?
3, yes. :) Justification... well... let's just say: it's ideal.
4 is an attempt to deviate from the beaten path while plunging the beloved lands into one big icy armageddon (if I remember correctly). But it's not bad. But it doesn't quite work. :)
5 is another new world (by the way, what happened to the old one?), it's good, not like the third one, but different!... It's worth saying again that the graphics are good, although it's unlikely that any of the Heroes fans put graphics above everything else. An attempt to return to the third game? A little bit... something new and brilliant. Although it's hard to play, maybe because the third game's system has already been fully mastered, and here they offer something different... it takes a lot of time to get used to it.
3 and 5 are the best, 4 is not bad (just for general knowledge), 2 is like a history textbook, and 1 shouldn't be thought of as something bad, it's just that now it seems like... a beta version of the third game. :)