Played around a little with Homm5 today - on about the 4th of the Haven campaign. They are all basically tutorials - no AI opponent until the 5th, which we've seen on the demo. But they are fairly engaging. Abysmal voice acting and story-telling. But the gameplay is ok. The strategic level suffers from the new graphics - it's just much harder to be "strategic", as it's harder to work out where you are in relation to everything else. The battles are ok - a little rough round the edges (just fought 15 pitlords and they kill 100+ creatures in a couple of rounds. yikes!).

Still too early to pass judgement, but it seems to resemble the other Nival effort I tried - Silent Storm - ie some very good ideas, but just lacking the production values of major US companies (in terms of polish, story-telling, voice acting, balancing etc). In some way rather amateur, although that may be an insult to modders considering how polished I find some RTW mods like RTR.