



The originally was one of the highest ranking DS titles of the year upon its release, holding a score of 86 on review aggregator site, Metacritic. Originally released as a Nintendo DS title back in 2010, Clash of Heroes was very well received, with an Xbox 360, PS3 and PC HD port released a year later. For the first two weeks of October highly rated puzzle game Might & Magic Clash of Heroes, usually priced as £9.99 on the Xbox Live Marketplace, will be on offer to subscribers. Introduced earlier this year, the Games with Gold scheme provides Xbox Live Gold subscribers with a free downloadable game every two months, and has included titles such as Dead Rising 2 and Crackdown over the past few months. Microsoft has announced the latest game on offer as part of the rewarding Games with Gold scheme. If only because I'd like to see it consume Katharine as much as Capybara's more recent Grindstone.Īlas, this does mean the non-Definitive release is no longer available for sale from Steam.Puzzle game, Might & Magic Clash of Heroes, will be free for Xbox Live Gold members to download in the first two weeks of October. Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes Definitive Edition will launch via Steam sometime this summer.

There's none of the kingdom management from the main series Might & Magic games, but the result is fleet-footed, relaxing, and just-one-more-turn engrossing. Those battles are strung together across maps in which you, as one of 15 available characters, explore, chat to NPCs and take on sidequests. It's smarter and more surprising than a match-three but it retains some of the approachability of Puzzle Quest. The cleverness is all in the combat, in which you form offensive and defensive combinations by stacking units in lines and rows. Clash Of Heroes places you head-to-head against AI or human opponents in turn-based battles, and Dotemu CEO Cyrille Imbert isn't wrong when he describes it in the press release as a "game design gem".
