Heroes of Might and Magic II

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Heroes of Might and Magic II" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Developer(s)	New World Computing
Publisher(s)	The 3DO Company
Director(s)	Jon Van Caneghem
Producer(s)	Mark Caldwell Walter Hochbrueckner
Designer(s)	Jon Van Caneghem Phil Steinmeyer
Programmer(s)	Phil Steinmeyer Mark Caldwell Todd Hendrix
Artist(s)	Julia Ulano Rebecca Riel Louis Henderson Lieu Pham
Writer(s)	Paul Rattner
Composer(s)	Paul Romero Rob King Steve Baca
Series	Heroes of Might and Magic
Platform(s)	DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, RISC OS
Release	NA: November 16, 1996[1] EU: 1996
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer

Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing and published in 1996 by the 3DO Company. The game is the second installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series and is typically credited as the breakout game for the series. Heroes II was voted the sixth-best PC game of all time by PC Gamer in May 1997.

An expansion pack, The Price of Loyalty, was released in 1997. Later, 3DO bundled Heroes II and its expansion pack in one box, released as Heroes of Might and Magic II Gold in 1998.