Hexen - Beyond Heretic

MS-DOS · 1995 · WOR

Also known as: Hexen : Beyond Heretic (US) · Hexen 95 · Hexen

id Software Raven Software Action Heretic and Hexen

Publisher: id Software · Developer: Raven Software · Genre: Action

Hexen is the sequel to Heretic. While Heretic was destroying D'Sparil, the other two Serpent Riders came to your dimension and slaughtered everyone. Or so they thought. Three humans managed to escape and are now seeking revenge on the Serpent Rider Korax who remains in their world. Like Heretic, Hexen is a fantasy game based on an enhanced DOOM engine. All Heretic's innovations, such as the vertical aspect, flight and inventory system, have been carried over. The major new changes this time are three characters from which the player can choose, and the level hub system. The characters are the fighter, the cleric and the mage. Each has four unique weapons and different levels of speed and armor. The hub system moves away from the traditional system of "single levels chained together in episodes" that had been taken up in the FPS genre from the side-scrollers and made popular by Wolfenstein 3D.