We have begun construction of a non-profit total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 3, hoping to entice enough modellers, programmers, and people with flair for textures and scripts to enable us to combine aspects from both the Might & Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic series. Our efforts are totally fan-based - this is purely a work of love for the Might and Magic series.
Our intention is to design and construct a fully 3D game, combining the fundamentals from Might and Magic VII and Heroes of Might and Magic III while ensuring that it is playable in an RPG style, allowing players to gain experience, learn new spells etc, while also enabling players to navigate by foot full size castles, still maintaining the abilities of ordering troops from dwellings which must be erected in the style of Heroes III. Heroes will be capable of recruiting troops to either venture forth or stand guard either in castles or the surrounding lands. We would like to vastly improve on the already-playable games by having ours play in real time as opposed to a turn based mode, giving the concept a far more distinctive playability.
In advancing this concept in such a way, we still wish to maintain some of the original elements such as the need to establish treasure and resources to improve towns and wage war on enemies. There will be towns with NPCs to interact with and gain quests. We are also venturing to make the mod multiplayer which we feel will certainly be beneficial.
The game's storyline will be set in the Might and Magic universe as created by New World Computing. Acting as a prequel to the events of Might and Magic VII and Heroes III, Might and Magic Warlords takes place roughly four hundred years before either game. Featuring twelve factions, each with their own distinct storylines, the game takes place in Antagarich, the continent upon which the aforementioned games are set. Lands such as Erathia, AvLee, Deyja, Krewlod and even the elusive isle of Vori will be fully explorable, featuring many characters from throughout the series - old and new.
Any ideas and information would be greatly appreciated at this point. We hope to achieve a fantastically playable game designed and constructed by the wishes, ideas and needs of game players themselves. So sit back, relax, send in your ideas and thoughts and watch this space...
24/4/08 After no updates for a while, we've taken some time to add our new content to the forum. The layout is now a little more readable and organised. More updates will soon follow. Check out the new weapon renders by Bnestor in the Gallery.
17/3/08 We have posted a model of a Transport Ship into the forum. The ship will be appearing in numerous locations throughout Antagarich.
15/3/08 Renders of the Plane Between Planes have been posted in our forum. Having appeared in Might and Magic VIII, the Plane Between Planes will be the base of operations for the Conflux faction.
14/3/08 Renders of the Elemental Plane of Fire, created by DrakeBD, have been posted. The Plane of Fire will be divided into three regions - one of which appeared in Heroes Chronicles, another in Might and Magic VIII. We are creating the third from scratch.
08/3/08 The team has decided to use Unreal Engine 3 for the development of Might and Magic Warlords. This game engine is very powerful and will allow us to vastly expand upon the Might and Magic universe.
13/2/08 Renders of southern Tatalia's Tidewater Cove region have been posted. This location appeared in Might and Magic VII, known simply as "Tatalia".
13/2/08 3D renders of Harmondale have been created. Harmondale was a prominent region in Might and Magic VII, and will also feature in Warlords.
12/2/08 A render of the Barrow Downs is up. This location featured Dwarves in Might and Magic VII, who will also be returning.
11/2/08 AhmedRostom has made us a fine 3D model of an Obelisk. Obelisks appeared in Might and Magic VI-VIII and in the Heroes series, providing clues to buried treasure.
07/2/08 The HyperGames 2008 forum chat room is now up and running. Feel free to chat with the members and developers if they are online or not busy working on the game.
07/2/08 Today we've posted renders of AvLee's Tularean Forest and the Bracada Desert. You may recognise both locations from Might and Magic VII.
04/2/08 DrakeBD has created many excellent weapon and item models and concepts for the game. You can now view them in the forums.
04/2/08 Renders of Steadwick and Thunderfist Mountain are viewable in the forums. These locations appeared in Might and Magic VII, under the names "Erathia" and "Nighon".
03/2/08 Renders of Emerald Isle and Moulder have been posted. Both locations appeared in Might and Magic VII. Emerald Isle will most likely be our tutorial and testing area.
31/1/08 The forum is now up and running at http://hypergame2k8.yuku.com/directory! Everyone is welcome to join and post. You can join the team from there: we are looking for recruits in plenty of areas, including graphics, scripting and storyline development.
The Might & Magic series and the Heroes of Might and Magic series are registered trademarks of Ubisoft. Might & Magic Warlords is not produced, endorsed, connected with or supported by Ubisoft in any way. Might & Magic Warlords is a fan-made freeware game intended as a tribute to the Might & Magic series originally produced by New World Computing. The project's purpose is to maintain interest in the Might and Magic series until such time if or when Ubisoft are in a position to officially continue it."
