The graphics are more colourful, taking advantage of contemporary VGA displays. A number of improvements, made possible by an expanded development team and advancements in computer technology, are incorporated. The action is turn based throughout the game phases.

Might and Magic III employs an updated first person perspective interface based on the one employed by Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum and Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World. However, they did in fact drift off-course and are next seen as powerful non-player characters in Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. They set off to pursue Corak and Sheltem in the Lincoln, and it is implied that they actually do so in Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen. After departing, Corak hastily contacts the adventurers from his escape pod, instructing them in the means of matter transferral to land the seedship - named the 'Lincoln' - safely.

They find themselves within the underwater seedship originally used by the Ancients in centuries past to colonize Terra with human life before its submersion beneath the waves.ДЄt the game's conclusion, Sheltem pilots an escape pod within the underwater ship and sets off for the nacelle of Xeen, with Corak in close pursuit. Uncovering revelations about Terra's past, they gain access to the Pyramids of the Ancients, stumbling upon what is named a 'Main Control Center'. Дriven by the tales told in Corak's journals regarding the Ancients, the Elemental Lords and the 'Forces of the Dome', the heroes pursue the Guardians, battling terrors along the way.ДЇinally, the heroes enter the so-called 'Maze from Hell' and earn the title of 'Ultimate Adventurers' from the maze's defenses. Driven against the Ancients, Sheltem is now launching their nacelles into the suns of various worlds, snuffing out countless lives in his wake. Throughout the game, the adventurers travel the Isles of Terra, a grouping of separate, flat 'nacelle' worlds drawn from the Void onto the oceanic planet of Terra by Sheltem himself in previous years. In canon, these adventurers are named Sir Caneghem, Crag Hack, Maximus, Resurrectra, Dark Shade, Kastore, Robert the Wise and Tolberti. The adventurers must aid the mysterious Corak in attempting to stop Sheltem once again and putting an end to his evil machinations. After the defeat of Sheltem and his forces on CRON in Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World, a new party of adventurers from Sheltem's 'homeworld' of Terra find themselves embroiled in the battle between the two Guardians.

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