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

2001 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ2386010 ↗
Source-derived summary

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 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.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff” is 2001 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Heroes, Might and Magic, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Heroes, Might and Magic is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.