Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Gonna have to say negative.

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]Same problem you had with HOMM5, fucking HORDES of independent units roaming the map, decapping your income tiles, chewing your (very expensive) troops down to nothing. Maybe the AI is really competent, I wouldn't know, they're constantly killed by the independents, too, so I'm not losing simply out of incompetence. Turtling up and building your forces before taking on independent strongholds is not an option because the independent units grow in strength over time. But besides that, the maps are completely random so you may very well have no useful resource tiles near your starting town, and a hostile independent manticore one tile away. My games were either effortless steamrolls or FUCKING BULLSHIT not my mistake losses. The only faction I can do well consistently with is the Troll King because he doesn't get permanent status ailments from unlucky combat rolls and the Troll Mum's "Awaken the old forest" ability is pretty ridiculously overpowered. Worse, the game doesn't capitalize on the amazing variety and customizability of Dominons 3. You get a set selection of units per and your spells are randomly chosen. A very few wizard units can level up a single tier for a random selection of higher level spells. Forget creating supercombatants, you can't forge magic items, you can only find random items in tiles that will cost half your army to conquer. It looks uglier than Dominons 3, the music is synthesized, and I don't feel like I have any real control over whether I win the game or not. It sounds great on paper but I'm going to have to give this a thumbs down. And fuck you for recommending I spend my money on this, Fabio! We're more than even now.[/quote]