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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 140320" data-attributes="member: 548">I bought Heroes 4 last Friday when it came out... and my friend is a Heroes 3 fanatic who just got a week of vacation.  This is my first lengthy session on the computer since then!Gory details follow...Heroes 4 has hot-seat play, but no network/internet play yet.  The soundtrack is good but sometimes choppy (that may be due to cheap sound card... not sure).  They've apparently gone back to laying on the opera rather thick when viewing castles.  All the tracks have that "Ride of the Valkyries" (aka "Kill Da Wabbit", if that's what you're more familiar with) feel.A lot of map objects have been "automated" so the hero doesn't have to return to them all the time to realize its benefits.  Those windmillers, waterwheelers, and leprechauns give you your extortion resources each week even if the hero never returns.  You can also use caravans to rake in a bunch of creatures from your other castles and all those creature dwellings your heroes have found.  All it costs is time (based on how far away the stuff is)... and the money to recruit the critters of course!Creatures trickle in daily rather than landing on your castle in one big lump at the start of the week.  So weeks don't really matter much any more, especially since there's no "Weeks of the Wombat" anymore.  There's still "Months of...", but I've yet to see one actually fall on a creature I have so I can't tell you what it does.Bad Things:1.  No network multiplayer (depends on how much you do that... I never did more than once or twice).2.  No random map generator.3.  Small number of initial scenarios, almost none of them my preferred L or XL size maps.4.  No maps that allow 2 players to be allies (easy to work around, though, with their map editor).You can make more maps, but the combo of #2 and #3 means a player has to find someone else to make maps if he wants to be surprised by anything.</blockquote>

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