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>>3513775
I don't know, it looks so weird. Fittingly, it reminds me of that Heroes 3 early screenshot.

The game looks neither like MM5/HoMM2 nor like MM7–8/HoMM3. As I mentioned, I don't recognize any enemies whatsoever. Everyone looks like generic mage guys/generic fighter guys, as if someone else tried to make artwork for MM game for NWC. Some of the monsters, like goblins or devils for example, look so ugly it's not even funny. Also, I've seen a speedrun of the game, and I must say, kreegan hive looks even uglier than it did in MM7.

Then there are all those NPC portraits of weird LARPing guys, FMV-style models photoshopped onto backgrounds, which trigger uncanny valley feeling all the time. The equipment is harshly pixelated, and presents a weird mix between realism and cartoon.

It's all in the looks really… It's not the graphics engine—playing MM7–8 I was prepared for its pixelated sprites—, but the very execution. It's just so terribly weird, yet it feels so muted compared to MM5 and even MM7–8. I feel there's a huge gap in terms of graphics quality between Heroes 3/MM7 and MM6.