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Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders

Description

Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders is the expanded version of the original Heretic retail release with the addition of two new episodes. This gives Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders a total of five episodes compared to the original Heretic's three episodes (and a single episode for the shareware release). Owners of the original Heretic are able to download a free patch which will update the game to the Shadow of the Serpent Riders' full five episodes.

Your world has been ravaged by the three Serpent Riders from the Abyss. Afterwards two of the Riders have left, while one, D'Sparil remains to oversee the oppression. It is your duty, as the Heretic, to destroy this demon.

Heretic is the first game in the Heretic/Hexen franchise. Here begins Raven's tradition of taking id's latest game engines, improving on them, and using them in a fantasy game.

For Heretic, the Doom engine was used. The Raven team enhanced the engine with the addition of an inventory system, the ability to look up and down, and the ability to fly, along with some lesser features such as powerful wind currents. Not counting the inventory, the core gameplay that made Doom such a hit remained the same.

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: id Tech 1
• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Gameplay feature: Auto-mapping
• Heretic and Hexen series

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The Press Says

Joystick (French)	Mar, 1995	91 out of 100	91
PC Player (Denmark)	1996	85 out of 100	85
PC Player (Brazil)	Jul, 1996		80
GameSpot	Jun 13, 1996	7.6 out of 10	76
Computer Games Magazine	Jun 13, 1996		60
PC Zone	Aug 13, 2001	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

The Doom cheat codes IDKFA and IDDQD work in Heretic, sort of. If you type IDKFA (the all items cheat), the word "cheater" appears on the screen and you will find your inventory empty. Worse yet, just try to open up "God" mode with IDDQD. Your character is instantly pureed! Other Doom codes may do other interesting things, I never tried.