Might and Magic: World of Xeen Official Trailer (1994, New World Computing)

The official trailer from the Inherit the Earth CD.

Here's the review from Abandonia:

"In 1992 Might And Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen was released, and in 1993 it was followed by Might And Magic V: Dark Side of Xeen. I can say many good things about the Might And Magic series. But one of the most inspired ideas was when New World Computing decided to make Might And Magic IV mergeable with the later Might And Magic V. By copying all game files of Might And Magic IV to the Might And Magic V directory, you could create the epic game, World of Xeen. Some may ask what the difference is between playing the two games separately or playing the two when merged.

My answer is a lot!

Some RPG game series offered the opportunity to import your characters into the next game. This was also the procedure for Might And Magic I and II. For a non Might and Magic example, Quest for Glory offered the opportunity to import your characters from the first game right through until the fifth in the series. It's a good feature, but you had to complete the first game before you could import characters into the next. In World Of Xeen you can travel between the two games at any stage.

But that's not all.

When both Might And Magic games are combined, you get an extra side quest and another main quest. Actually, I played the game the old fashion way. I wanted to finish Might And Magic IV and then start on Might And Magic V. (Although I couldn't resist visiting Castleview, the first city in Might and Magic V.) After I covered every inch of Might And Magic IV, I still couldn't find the keys to some towers. Only after much fruitless searching did I realise that the keys were probably in Might And Magic V and those places were part of the added quest. One important thing is that these extra locations are in Might And Magic IV whether you install World Of Xeen or not, but they are only acccessed with World Of Xeen. The travel between the two worlds is well done. It fits in smoothly with the story, and you really feel as though you're travelling from one continent to another and not just passing from one game spot to another."

I was lucky, myself. I only had the MM4 CD but never got a copy of 5 buy recently found a copy of Might and Magic Millenium Edition at Value Village ^_^

Buy the first 6 games in this epic series for 9.99!
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/might_and_magic_6_limited_edition

As such, much to some people's assumptions, the Might and Magic series is not abandonware.

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[GreatEmerald1]

I wonder if all of the speech was really synthesized as it is shown here, or was it edited for demo purposes only...

[Shyranis]

I dunno... but I just got the World of Xeen in Might and Magic Millenium edition I picked up from Value Village for 2.99$. ^_^

I intend to find out eventually.

[0NoName9]

"As such, much to some people's assumptions, the Might and Magic series is not abandonware."

Courtesy of Ubisoft having bought the rights to Might & Magic and having raped the franchise in the ass. Fuck Heroes V, fuck Dark Messiah, this series and the real Heroes series is where it's at.

[legolegs87]

"hundreds of hours of entertainment"! Hey, EA, Bioware, Valve and other factories of casual shit, do you hear it? Hundreds! Fucking hundreds hours of gameplay! Where are my hundreds of hours now? Why modern single player games costs more dollars than they have hours of gameplay?

[Kaihuna]

In regards to the floppies, I only had the Darkside of Xeen, never had the clouds, and yes some of you are correct: I remember about 6 or 7 floppies just for the Darkside.

[Kaihuna]

I just installed this on my Macbook Pro with the Boxer virtual DosBox. I bought the Millenium edition and it's simple drag and drop. The only thing I wanted was the World of Xeen. I used to play this when I was a kid on my mom's Mac quadra 610 partitioned machine! I'm just thinking back to 20 years ago. Man technology has come a long way. But this game still retains it's glory. ALL of it.

[BipolarStoner420]

loved this game, still have the 2 disks from when it was new

[IAmTheFuture]

@Shyranis did the millenium edition work on newer operating systems? I plan on buying it myself but I'm not sure if it will work on windows 7. I heard there's a backwards compatibility-type setting you can change to make older programs work, but I just want to make sure before I spend the cash

[Arkhandroid]

@lostn65 thats frigging intense.

I cant even imagine how big / heavy the box was if it had that many floppies in it.

holy shit.

[lostn65]

@Arkhandroid It was like a whopping 28-32 HD (high density) 1.44MB floppy disks. I'd never seen a floppy game that big before. Game was worth every byte.

[lostn65]

They ruined the ending of Darkside in this trailer...

[GreatEmerald1]

@housethegrate Yea, I kinda figured that out 2 months ago.