
The conditions for victory vary depending on the map, including conquest of all enemies and towns, collection of a certain amount of a resource, or finding the grail artifact. The hero will progress in experience by engaging in combat with enemy heroes and monsters. The player creates an army by spending resources at one of the eight town types in the game. The gameplay is divided into two parts, tactical overland exploration and a turn-based combat system. The gameplay is very similar to its predecessors in that the player controls a number of heroes that command an army of creatures inspired by myth and legend. The player can choose to play through six different campaigns telling the story, or play in a scenario against computer or human opponents. The game's story is first referenced throughout Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven and takes place before Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. It is the third installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series. In 2000, the Dreamcast port was cancelled.

An Apple Macintosh port was released by 3DO, and a Linux port was released by Loki Software, both later that year. If there are issues when performing an automated update of the HD-Mod, you can download the up-to-date installer package from the developer’s website and install it over the old version in the same folder.Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (also known as Heroes III or HoMM3) is a turn-based strategy game developed by New World Computing for Microsoft Windows and released by the 3DO Company in 1999. You can purchase the original game “Heroes of Might and Magic III: Complete” for installing HotA here: Localization of the original game does not matter.Īttention: HotA is not to be installed on top of “Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition” (from Ubisoft), or on top of “Restoration of Erathia” or “Armageddon’s Blade” HoMM III versions. HotA is to be installed on top of the previous HotA version or the original game “Heroes of Might and Magic III: Shadow of Death” or “Complete”. It is recommended for torrent-client users to download updates using the torrent link. If you encounter problems with downloading, try another one: You can access the latest version of HotA by following one of a number of interchangeable links.
