Barely a year has passed since a band of brave adventurers freed the land of Erathia from the scourge of the diabolical Kreegans. Lest your sword get rusty, the designers at 3DO's New World Computing division have wasted no time in presenting the next outing in the venerable Might and Magic series, Might & Magic VIII: Day Of The Destroyer. This is the third and final outing with the Might and Magic VI engine, which did not stand out graphically even in 1998. Does the latest episode from have enough appeal and content to stay the course despite its built-in limitations? Read on and judge for yourself.
Eine Wertung wurde leider nicht vergeben.Might and Magic VIII is a prime example of "old school" CRPG design, and while it is nice to revisit the traditional every once in a while, this was amply accomplished in the previous two Might and Magic titles. Excluding a few minor details such as the inclusion of the quasi-addictive Arcomage side game and the leeway to commit your party to a few morally binding quests, Might & Magic VIII is a wholly unremarkable experience whose primary characteristics are repetition, repetition and more repetition. Even the ability to play traditionally evil characters such as necromancers, minotaurs and vampires offers a small degree of variety in terms of character development, but in the end works out to being little more than a novelty. If the Might and Magic role-playing series hopes to have any kind of staying power, it absolutely must overhaul its extremely tired and outdated graphical engine, lest it lose all credibility with gamers who long to enjoy an old-fashioned, traditional-style CRPG. Until then, they'll have to settle for Might & Magic VII, which is not only a much better and more finely tuned product than this newest installation in the series but also manages to feature all of number eight's positive elements with far less of its negatives. All in all, Might & Magic VIII monotonously travels down the path of repetitious mediocrity, accomplishing precious little in doing so.
Das Ergebnis mit 2 von 5 möglichen Sternen ist schon hart. Aber die Kritik ist in Teilen sicherlich gerechtfertigt.