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as for the quietness, lots of people crossed over to the official pages, its a shame

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Welcome to the E3 demo of Heroes of Might and Magic V .

This is where I will start to reveal what the game it will look like and how it will play.
As you start the demo in the human town you can see that it is now completely rendered in full 3D with glorious details and the depth of view.

You completely control the camera, you can turn around the city, close in to the small [???] or get a very large view of the whole town.

What you see here is a fully developed human town with all buildings completed and of [???]. When you start off you only have a small village that will grow in size and [???] up to this level.

At this stage we don’t want to show much of the interface, so of course we are missing some information here in this town’s screen.

You can see some icons in the bottom right part of the screen, summarizing the main actions of the player when he enters the town: recruit creatures, hire heroes, make a new building.

As in previous games the city is where everything starts. And when your hero is ready you have a complete army to fight with, you exit the screen and you enter the adventure map.

This is the second part of the game and we will see this in the next video.

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Active combat system will be optional... is something like final fantasy games... each unit have a time bar when the bar is total filled the unit can move... but if you don't move then the other can move his units if his time bars are filled... so this system will increase the speed of the game... time to think but no much time... if you don't like just put it off and all is ok

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We find the hero here waiting for orders in front of the town. As you can see, this is a detailed replica of the town, with the major elements shown here. The town replica on the adventure map will reflect the actual power of the town itself. The town is completely built up, and you compare it to this starting human town here.

You can see how the demon town looks like. The principle will be the same in all towns : a central column around which you will turn and zoom on, that will grow in power. But the style and gameplay will of course be very different. We will enter the demon town for a quick look.

Demons are a special race in Heroes 5, sort of invaders. They dont plant nice farmlands and pretty peasant huts. What demons do is basically carve a giant pillar thrown into the lava crust, adding the structures needed to summon more demons.

You`ll see more of this town later, that`s enough at this stage.

Lets have a quick look at the demon environment. Each race has its own environment. For demons as you can see, its all magma pits, lava lakes... very hot stuff, they like it !

As we take a look around, you can see that the move to 3D allows us to create a detailed and living world. You can zoom in to see the sunflowers, the pumpkins, scarecrows... You can stroll on the roads... If you choose to, you can keep the default view and not move the camera of course. This way you have a top-down view similar to previous gaes.

On this adventure map you will see other objectives that we have with Heroes 5. We want the game to be faster to play, and easier to access. For instance when you move up to this windmill here, you see that there is no window popping up with text to read : its just a bit faster.

Now we reach a very typical item, the treasure chest. Here the choice can be done a lot faster in the interface : just do one double-click, and you close the window.

Further along we can see a resource item here. It looks like a mercury flask, lets pick it up. You can see how much you gained, and keep moving.

In front of us you see a very derelict structure. You can compare that with this sawmill here, and there is an ore mine just a bit below. These are of course resource mines. We move the hero up to it, and its coming back to life, with colors and animation. And of course your symbol on top of it. The idea here is that we want the player to really feel like he`s conquering the territory, and changing the face of the landscape.

Now lets get some experience points here. Of course there`s still the rpg part of the game - its very critical to the gameplay. Heroes still level up, you can choose from skills and abilities, learn spells, acquire artifacts... There is one here, just down the road. You can get very close to it with the camera, and then pick it up.

I`ve been moving my hero for a long time here, but this is only for the demo. The game is still turn based, and at some point, you have to finish your turn. As I end my turn, its the enemy`s turn to move. We have a demon hero here, jumping out of the woods on top of me, and engaging the fight.

We`ll see the battle screen in the final video.

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Awwww, I saw the 3rd video too. The battlefield's so small. I guess they've made it Disciples (or Etherlords, if you like) style.

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