Alamar, the powerful wizard and artificial being has declared itself lord of one side of the Xeen world. Now your team will have to get rid of him, but not before saving the queen from the undead life, restoring the castle to our reality and helping the dragon pharaoh, as only him can help you.

It isn't a complex or deep game, it just haves a lot of enemies to dismember while exploring the land, its cities and the dungeons in search of keys that will get you to new places to clean. Few things will give you something that is not directly related to violence, just a few spells for travelling; or the skills, that may allow you to travel through different terrains, activate the automap or give you a natural compass.

But even not being a too good game it haves some things that are good, like being able to break doors and walls by throwing yourself to them; the special option that gets you back to a secure place, for a price, if you get stuck; the titles that you get by finishing quests, findings things o doing something, which mainly just serve as a mark for exploration and completion; and many places to explore, with a nice range of special objects and locations.

And also it haves problems. The character development is unsuprisingly based in levels, typical species and profesions that just affect wich of the two kinds of spells you can cast, if any, and if you have the rarely used steal skill; the puzzles are normally too simple and easy; and the graphics are irregular and sometimes look like they were took from diferent games.

May be a fun game if played from time to time, but not if you do so for a long time.

As a final note, this game, if installed with Might and Magic 4 in the same directory will create MM: Worlds of Xeen, which is basically the same game, with a few adaptations for the travels from one side of the world to the other, and an additional main quest. To do so, copy xeen.cc from MMIV to the MMV directory.


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