Description
Hexen is the sequel to
Heretic. While the Heretic was destroying D'Sparil, the other two Serpent Riders have come to your dimension and slaughtered everyone. Or so they thought. Three humans have managed to escape with their lives and now seek vengeance against the Serpent Rider Korax who remains in their world.
Like
Heretic,
Hexen is a fantasy game based on an enhanced
DOOM engine. All of
Heretic's innovations like vertical looking, flying, and the inventory system have been carried over. The new major changes this time around are three characters for the player to choose from and the level hub system. The characters are the Fighter, the Cleric, and the Mage. Each one has four unique weapons and different levels of speed and armor.
The hub system steps away from the traditional "single levels stringed along into episodes" system which had been carried over into the FPS genre from sidescrollers and made popular by
Wolfenstein 3D. In
Hexen's hub system each episode is still made up of interconnected levels, but most of the levels are connected to a single "hub" level through portals. There are also portals between some of the "spoke" levels. Many of the puzzles in
Hexen require travel back and forth between different levels.
Other innovations in
Hexen included weather effects, jumping, earth-quakes, and destructible objects such as trees and vases.
Alternate Titles
- "Hexen 95" -- Windows re-release title
- "Hexen" -- Console title
- "Heretic 2" -- Working title
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Trivia
In the first part of the last episodes, you find a place with some graves. Authors name can be found there.
