Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate review

The sound of something fatefully ho-hum banging

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Pros

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    Creature caravans

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    The random map generator

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    Surly rune-slinging dwarves

Cons

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    Three brain-tranquilizing campaigns

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    Lingering bugs

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    Paying for the random map generator

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Somewhere along the way it seems Russian development team Nival Interactive got its signals crossed. What we wanted after the promising mess that was Heroes of Might and Magic V were fixes, and after the fixes, an expansion with a campaign worth playing. Not just a hodgepodge of features that frankly should have been in the original or dished up alongside the patches.