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Hexen (video Game)
''Hexen: Beyond Heretic'' is a 1995 first-person shooter game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software for MS-DOS. It is the sequel to 1994's ''Heretic (video game), Heretic'', and the second game in Raven Software's "Serpent Riders" trilogy, which culminated with ''Hexen II''. The title comes from the German language, German noun Wiktionary:Hexen, ''Hexen'', which means "witches", and/or the verb Wiktionary:hexen, ''hexen'', which means "to cast a Incantation, spell". Game producer John Romero stated that a third, unreleased game in this series was to be called ''Hecatomb''. ''Hexen: Beyond Heretic'' met with highly positive reviews upon release, though the various 1997 console ports were negatively received because of problems with frame rate and controls and the aging of the game itself. Critical plaudits for the game centered on the Nonlinear gameplay, non-linear Level (video games), level design and the selection of three playable characters, each offering a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven Software
Raven Software Corporation (trade name: Raven; formerly Raven Software, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Middleton, Wisconsin, and part of Activision. Founded in May 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel, the company is most known for the dark fantasy franchise '' Heretic/Hexen'', the first two '' Soldier of Fortune'' games, as well as licensed titles based in the '' Star Wars: Jedi Knight'' series and Marvel Comics's X-Men characters, including 2006's '' Marvel: Ultimate Alliance''. Since 2011, Raven has been working on multiple ''Call of Duty'' games as both lead and support developer. Raven's first game, '' Black Crypt'' (1992), was conceived in the late 1980s by Raffel brothers to be a paper-and-pen role-playing game, until the two retooled the project from scratch to become a video game. While it did not perform well commercially, its positive reception by critics and technology efforts led to John Romero approaching Raven to develop new titles for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |