HeroOnline

Impressions of Hero Online

First thing your noticed was, that's just the first impression.

In combat you can't change the camera angel, any account using capital letters in name or pw doesn't work. Yep, that's maybe gonna get fixed sooner or later. The graphics are not so great, so far. They look a bit  very simple, like in a browser game(Hero Online Gold), sometimes pixelated. Some of the graphics are directly recycled from older HoMm versions.

 
The setting doesn't fit at all in Hero Online. As town we chose swamp fortress. As in HoMM3, of which this version even took some graphics directly, we wanted to be the evil ruler of a stinking  swamphole  and conquer the world with our ugly angry beasts. Chose the swamp town, female beastmaster, chose a portrait of an ugly female gnoll. We enter Hero Online, and our character looks like a cute princess. And we're not in some swamp, but in a shiny polished town. And to top it off, the 2nd quest is sending us to a hair dresser! We want to be a stinking filthy slime-dripping swamp ruler, and not a girl that runes around in a shiny castle on the search for a hairdresser!

Scrolling around in the screen of our fortress is a pain. When we did the hairdresser quest, our character were in the center of the screen(obviously). And the window for choosing the hairstyle was in the center of the screen too, mostly covering our character to up level(Hero Online Powerleveling), making it hard to choose anything obviously. Some windows are sometimes hiding other windows.