Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff

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Heroes of Might and Magic:
Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff
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North American PlayStation 2 cover art
Developer(s) New World Computing
Publisher(s) The 3DO Company
Director(s) Mark Caldwell
Producer(s) Jeffrey W. Blattner
Designer(s) Jon Van Caneghem
Mark Caldwell
Programmer(s) Bob Young
Artist(s) Scott White
Writer(s) Terry Ray
Composer(s) Paul Romero
Rob King
Steve Baca
Series Heroes of Might and Magic
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release
  • NA: April 17, 2001 [1]
  • EU: June 1, 2001
Genre(s) Turn-based strategy
Mode(s) Single-player

Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff is a 2001 video game released on the PlayStation 2. Though 3DO did not advertise it as such, the game is an enhanced remake of King's Bounty. It is primarily a graphics enhancement [2] and it appears that little of the text has changed. Because of its dated gameplay, the game bears little relation to the rest of the Heroes of Might and Magic series.

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Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3] Daniel Erickson of NextGen said that the game was "Not as deep as the PC series it's named after, but just as fun and much more accessible." [12]

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