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A warning, just in case you are not sure...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 22 / 26
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

These games do NOT work with Windows XP. Most people reading this are probably aware of that, but in case you thought about purchasing it and hoping you'd luck out (like my wife) it doesn't.

A terrific bargain

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: June 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

These are four of my favorite games, which I sadly purchased at full price as each one was released. Part of the attraction of these games is the simplicity of the interface. In all four games, you control a group of characters with a single first-person view. It sounds too simple, but it really works. I have played all four games twice.

The first two games, Might and Magic IV and V, can be combined into one huge game, The World of Xeen. Not only was Might and Magic VI just as large as the World of Xeen, but it introduced their new game engine with greatly improved graphics. MM4 and MM5 were turn-based only, while MM6 and MM7 are realtime with the option to switch to turn-based at any time. These games are highly addictive. You will always want to play just a little bit longer. With all four games priced below the cost of even one of them when they were new, this is a terrific bargain.

Love This

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this as soon as I saw it. Its worth your money even if you own one or more of the games in this product because you'll probably spend more buying them separately.

I love Might and Magic IV and V that have fun gameply and even cooler introduction video.

You can play with windows xp

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game orginally when I had a Windows 98 computer. Last year I decided to pull it out and play it again, only this time I had a Windows XP computer. At first it would install 6 and 7 but I could not play them. I figured it had something to do with compatibilty, so after playing around a bit I changed (in the program folder) all the .exe files to run in compatilbilty mode for windows 98. IT WORKS GREAT! Side note: Last week I was playing around with MM8 and discovered that you have to start this from the cd and in compatibilty mode to work properly. If you have questions you can always let me know and I can try to help a fellow gamer out. [...]

RIP OFF

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: March 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This thing could hardly be more of a rip off. Their claims of over "500 pages of hints, tips and walkthroughs!" really amounts to manuals being on the cd so that the game can crash on you when you alt-tab out to look at them. Further these are not the Prima Official Strategy guides, they are in fact the "Fast Track" guides which means that huge sections of these books are simply not there. Instead you are afflicted with more advertising to buy the books which are supposed to be with the game when you buy it. (Gee how magnanimous!) Some of which are no longer even in print! This is the exact type of marketing that is making it very difficult for folks who are not essentially lying bald faced on the box for their games. My next stop is the web master.

Tremendous value

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

for RPG addicts, and nostalgic gamers. Big problem:if you dont have Windows 95 or 98, you will not be able to play the first two epics. So beware.

My favorite RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, way more than I liked newer games with better graphics, like Diablo or Baldur's Gate (even though I did like Diablo and Baldur's Gate). What's so special about it?

1) In other games, I sometimes felt as if I were slogging through a level. In MM6, something is always happening. One goes up in level quite often, so there are new spells or better skills or new weapons or more armor or some goodie or the other every time you turn around. Most of the monsters have a least a couple of goldpieces, so nearly every critter killed gives you something. This makes the game very addictive -- just get one more level, and you can get that skill you want; just kill five more monsters and you can afford that armor. What? It's 4 a.m.?

2) One can play battles in real time or in turn-based mode. I have truly miserable hand-eye coordination, and many video games are simply too hard for me and thus not fun. This game lets the dexterous play in real time, but the turn-based option lets those of us who are nondexterous play, too. I wish every game had a turn-based option! Also in this vein, you use your characters' skills to attack monsters, not your own, so you don't have to line up a blow with a sword or an arrow from a bow or a fireball from a wizard -- you just tell your charcters whom you want them to attack, and they figure it out. You figure the strategy; your characters handle the hand-eye coordination. That's why they're the adventurers, and you're sitting at a computer. :-)

3) The party is large enough that one gets to take advantage of several different types of skills -- you can have a fighter, a mage, a cleric, AND an archer -- but they move as a unit, so the game doesn't descend into the chaos that some other RPG's do.

4) Many recent RPG's seem to be so concerned with realism that they've sacrificed gameplay -- just as one example, I've played RPG's where archers are always having to run back to town to buy more arrows, even if they buy 500 at a time. In MM6, there's some concern with realism but more concern with gameplay. If you have a bow, it's assumed that you have arrows to go with it -- you never have to buy any. There are some space limitations, but no weight limitations, so if it fits in your space allotment, you can carry it.

5) The Mandate Mania website (run by a fan, not the official site) is one of the most helpful game websites I've ever seen. They give LOTS of information, and it's very well organized.

6) I could go on and on, but this is long enough. :-) The game is fun and charming, reasonably easy without being dull, and has lots of skills, quests, places, and items.

Best value for the money, but lots of repeatition

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you want either M&M6 or M&M7 then this is the best value for the money. But here's the thing, I played M&M6 a couple of years ago so I bought this. M&M7 really is more of the same. The graphics are the same (moderatly good for 1999, rather weak for today) as M&M6.

The gameplay is mainly hack & slash. Travel to somewhere and kill the monsters. Travel somewhere else and kill some more monsters. ad infinitum. I find myself playing it mainly just to finish the game, but I pretty much lost interest days ago. But if you like this kind of game (and I do) then you have at least a couple of hundred hours ahead of you.

Best classic RPGs ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't have this collection, but I have played all of the games on here separately and they were great. The Might and Magic Xeen games are the best of the 80's RPGs games, in my opinion.

Might and Magic 6 and 7 were pretty good, I think 6 was much better. 6 was the most difficult of the Might and Magic games, but I like a good challenge. If you've never played the Might and Magic series, but you enjoy sword-and-sorcery RPGs with challenging puzzles and quests, I recommend giving them a try.

A great deal for RPG addicts

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This box set contains FOUR games: Might and Magic 4, 5, 6, and 7. It also includes the bonus adventures World of Xeen and Swords of Xeen. Might and Magic is a classic first-person fantasy RPG where you create a party of adventurers and set out on an epic quest to save the world, adventuring into dungeons, wizards' towers, towns, castles, alternate dimensions, and even outer space.

Might and Magic 4 and 5 are my all-time favorite RPG's. The game hooks you from the beginning. You always have something to do (no directionless wandering) yet you never get stuck (no fiddling around for days trying to figure out one stupid puzzle). You are always moving forward and never get bored. By modern standards, the graphics and sound of this game are archaic. But just last year I reinstalled them and got hooked all over again. Regardless of graphics, these games are addictive and fun. Simply the best!

Now enter Might and Magic 6 and 7. Many improvements were made to the original game engine between MM5 and MM6. MM6 was a little rough and unpolished, but by MM7 they had the new system down. Both of these games also provide countless hours of entertainment and make MM4 and MM5 seem like tiny walks in the park by comparison.

I can't even count the sheer number of hours of classic, enjoyable RPG gameplay you will find in this simple box (not to mention cool full-color maps). I also highly recommend MM8 for more of the same!

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