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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: UBI Soft EAN: 0008888683865 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Label: Ubisoft Manufacturer: Ubisoft Model: 68386 Platform: Windows Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: October 16, 2007 Sales Rank: 1906 Studio: Ubisoft
Features:
The brutal Orc faction now comes to the Heroes series. This faction's troops include Orcs, Goblins, Cyclops, and the famed Pao Kais.
Experience the dramatic conclusion of the usurper Biara's reign. Characters from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic will also appear to bring an unexpected twist to this multi-layered plot.
Tribes of the East will also feature 10 multiplayer and five single-player maps.
Every creature in the Heroes V universe will get an alternative upgrade level, increasing the total number of creatures in the Heroes of Might and Magic V line to over 170! These powerful new abilities are sure to become an integral part of your combat tactics.
Expand your arsenal and gameplay with new spells, artifacts, buildings and innovative features such as the combo-based Artifact Power Link and Battle Rage, the unique racial ability of the Orcs.
Product Description: Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East chronicles the final chapter in the epic struggle that began with the interrupted wedding of Queen Isabel. Players will follow the steps of the Necrolord Arantir as he uncovers the prophecy of the Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and exposes the Demon Sovereign's conspiracy. Tribes of the East is a standalone product - no previous Heroes game installations are required to play. ESRB Rated T for Teen
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Last Expansion is worth it!
The initial release of Heroes V sometimes got faint praise, such as 'its a Heroes' game and it doesn't suck, yay!'. I thought it was better than that, but it did have some problems, such as initially not delivering the promised map editor and unplayable buggy multi-player. That's all in the past, however, and with this expansion just about all the fantasy creatures present in earlier versions of HOMM are present.
Tribes of the East adds the Stronghold, the barbarian town and creature group. They are on the dark side along with the Inferno, Dungeon and Necromancer, but their 'powerups' work much differently than all the other towns' creatures, light or dark. Barbarian Heroes don't use magic (although they can train some Anti-Magic skills) but instead focus on increasing the Stronghold creatures' rage, which basically improves the creatures combat performance. For this reason they are a bit more difficult to use to their best advantage by any other hero type or in mixed armies. Still its great to watch the Cyclops clobber low level creatures with his tree club! Great stuff, its bargain priced and does not have any copy protection so you can play it without the DVD in the system. Play on!
Rating: - Great game.
A new faction is added to the Heroes V series, the orcs. But in addition to that there are changes made to several of the other classes, with the most notable being another entire set of upgrades to choose from (ex. skeletons Upgrade to skeleton archers OR skeleton warriors). This is for each type of character.
Leveling up heroes is a bit different in that you can follow a certain path and gain a special skill associated with that path.
Minor grammar errors that tweak my nerves a bit, but no big deal.
I play the hot seat mode with friends when we are just hanging out sometimes. The online mode is good as well, but a bit bogged down at times, which may be my computer.
There are many ways to play this game and so it has a good amount of replayability, which is loved in any game.
This is a great game to play.
Rating: - Frustrating
I'm a long time fan of the series (Started out with King's Bounty back in the days)and I've enjoyed most of this expansion.
The last part however is extremely frustrating and you have to resort to cheats to win it or start all over again.
I have no problems with a high difficulty but it's totally inconsistent.
One map you breeze through and the next is so hard that few people are actually able to win it without cheats and a lot of luck.
If you don't want to replay some (large) maps then I suggest you read the wallkthrough on Celestial heavens and adhere to it.
Rating: - Heroes of Might and Magic V "Tribes of the East"
Very enjoyable game to play. Has everything the newest version has, plus you don't have to put a disk in every time to play. Makes you wonder why they do it in the first place doesn't it? Cool magic. cool artifacts and they list all of the items to get specialty artifacts that get put together like in HOMM 3. Great fun, Great game.
Rating: - great game for strategy lovers
I've played every one of the Heroes of Might and Magic titles including King's Bounty back in the early nineties. While I'm not yet done playing the entire game, this expansion adds enough elements to make it the most fun installment I've played. The addition of a third tier of monster development adds a huge array of stategy decisions to the game. The only downside (as with all the Heroes V games and expansions) is the difficulty with the computer bogging down periodically no matter how great of a system you have. Great game for strategy lovers and newcomers alike.
- Great game.
- Frustrating
