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[Blake00]

In the Academy Faction deserts
The Wizard heroes ride war elephants through giant canyons stretching between rolling sandy hills while their castles magically float in the sky above resting in the clouds and glowing sunlight.
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Combat Screen
The new Battle screen is fast and action paced on a square grid (not hex anymore), spells are cast in beautiful detail, and Heroes 3 fans will be pleased to know that Ballistas/Aid tents/Ammo carts/Catapults are all back (were gone in Heroes 4).
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Videos
At E3 2005 we were blown away with an amazing FMV showing a demon attack on a human castle showing Devils, Archangels, Ghost Dragons, and a powerful human hero. Here are some snapshots I’ve taken from the video:
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Link to the video itself:
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/homm5/videos/HOMM5...railer_EMEA.zip

Afterwoods a series of informative gameplay videos were released which you can get from here:
Town-
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/homm5/videos/HV_E3_demo_1.wmv
Adventure-
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/homm5/videos/HV_E3_demo_2.wmv
Battle-
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/homm5/videos/HV_E3_demo_3.wmv

Links
One of the biggest Heroes series fan sites is Celestial Heavens and they have collected many Heroes 5 pictures which you can check out here:
http://www.celestialheavens.com/viewpage.php?id=417

For those of you familiar with Heroes of Might & Magic there is also a good review of the gameplay features posted at Celestial Heavens too:
http://www.celestialheavens.com/viewpage.php?id=511

THE DEMO!
The much anticipated Heroes of Might & Magic 5 demo (700MB) which contains:
- Two maps from the Haven and Inferno campaigns
- One custom single-player map: "843 YSD: Falcon’s last flight"
- Duel Mode: 6 heroes out of 18 are available for selection in this brand new online mode

Easiest if you’ve got a download manager-
UBISoft FTP

Alternative locations-
3DGamers
Worthplaying
Filefront
Gamershell
Gamespot
Boomtown
Gamedaily
Xfire
Espace.ch