Heroes Of Might And Magic

As part of the Might and Magic franchise, the series changed ownership when NWC was acquired by 3DO and again when 3DO closed down and sold the rights to Ubisoft. The games feature turn-based, fantasy-themed conflicts in which players control armies of mythical creatures. Nival Interactive developed the first game in the series since the changeover, Heroes of Might and Magic V. The series is directed primarily at the DOS and Windows platforms, with sporadic support for Mac OS over the years. King's Bounty , an earlier game from New World Computing, largely precipitated the design of Heroes and is included in some Heroes anthologies. The Heroes series is within the genre of turn-based strategy. The number of different alignments varies throughout the series, with the lowest count of four appearing initially in Heroes I and peaKing at nine in the Heroes III expansion Armageddon's Blade.