The fighter relies on melee weapons and brute strength the mage uses magic and magical weapons, and the cleric is a hybrid of the the two. Starting a new game you can choose between a fighter, a cleric or a mage. One major new addition to the game is that you can play as any one of three playable characters, each giving a different gameplay experience. It was again developed by Raven Software and published by id Software, and John Romero once again acted as producer of the game. Or at least: a modified version of the Doom engine.

The game has 3 classes (Fighter, Cleric, and Mage), each with a different arsenal, adding a good variety and replay factor.Hexen is the 1995 MS-DOS-based sequel to Heretic and is another fantasy-themed first-person shooter utilising the Doom engine.

We are offered a choice of 3 different heroes (they differ in weapons, a couple of characteristics): a cleric named Parias, a magician Daedolon and a warrior Baracus. In the same part, we have to fight with the middle-senior Horseman – Corax, who has already enslaved the human world – Kronus. Hexen is a plot continuation of the shooter Heretic, in which we, in the role of the elf Corvus, fought the younger and “weakest” Snake Rider, who enslaved the homeworld of our elf. A real Adventure with a capital letter awaits you if you are ready to connect a little imagination and give the game a discount for years ago. A gloomy, bloody Gothic world, oppressive gray skies, dim light of torches, tarnished stained glass windows in abandoned churches, gray dense forests, where wilting foliage rustles underfoot, riddles that can take more than one hour to solve, colorful, memorable bosses, a truly unusual, unique weapon. If you are reading this review – just click the “buy” button.

This is the first game that I have seen in my life. Everyone, even the last six-year-old boy, though – would have heard about Doom, but who knows that it was Hexen who first introduced the hub system in 3D shooters, some kind of non-linearity of passage, character selection, jumping (!).

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