Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World

At the beginning of the game, the player creates eight characters with random characteristics, while the feeling of randomness of choice is enhanced by a hand on top of the window, throwing a dice. At the same time, he can manually adjust their worldview, race, gender and name. In addition to the 6 main classes in the last part, Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum , two more appeared - a ninja and a barbarian. After installation, the game begins on day 110 of 900 according to local calculation. The world is made, like the last part, sixteen color and with pseudo - three - dimensional space. The player can walk on the map marked in the corner of the screen, having the ability to view at a right angle, that is, the player can only turn north, south, west and east. On the way to the player can meet various structures. Checkpoints allow you to save, training camps - to increase the level. The player can meet with enemies who are motionless relative to the map. In this case, the action is transferred to a separate window. The fight is entirely textual, despite the fact that a window is displayed with an opponent performing characteristic movements that are unique to his class (for example, a thief looks back at a player and a clown juggles with balls. The player has a choice when attacking an opponent for the first time: attack, i.e. take a fight, hide, getting a lesser chance of getting injured, or run away, adding one day to the time of the game. During the battle, the player can shoot, use spells or just attack. if a player is injured in one or more of eight its heroes are killed by warriors. When the number of all warriors of all players becomes equal to zero, the player dies and the game begins with the last checkpoint. Unlike subsequent games in the series and the very first part, the game process is not endless. When the characters reach the age of approximately seventy-five, they die due to natural causes. The death for this reason of all the characters is also counted as a loss. The player has a spell that can reduce the character’s age, but as a rule it only increases it. A trip to a sanatorium is also possible, which also reduces age, but a trip requires money.

Reviews of foreign-language sites are generally positive. In particular, on 1UP.com this game was awarded the highest mark "A" with the comment "colorful game" ^[1] .