

I also imagine that most mobile strategy game fans have learned to wrangle more awkward and esoteric controls than these.

Probably a large percentage of today’s gamers haven’t ever played Heroes 3, and therefore won’t miss the expansion content. There’s another angle worth thinking about here, however. These are all good reasons to pass on Heroes Of Might & Magic 3 HD, especially if you have a computer, where you can buy and play the complete version of the game with all expansions included for the same price. The updates are few in number, with just a bit of spit-polish done on the sprites and text to make them look a little less pixelated. The map editor found in the original game and the PC version of this HD remaster is not included in the iPad version. There’s significant content missing in the form of the two expansions, which will not be coming to this version due to the source code being lost. The control layout has done little more than map things directly from keyboard and mouse to touch, with not much in the way of explanation of the intricacies, even in the tutorial. There are a lot of issues with Heroes Of Might & Magic 3 HD ($9.99), the spiffy remaster of the 1999 classic PC strategy game.
