In Hexen II, players choose from one of four character classes (Necromancer, Assassin, Crusader, and Paladin) and begin their quest to destroy Eidolon, the lone survivor from the original Hexen. Four different lands are broken into many sublevels, each of which contain a member of the Four Horsemen, who must be destroyed. Along the way, weapons, armor, and artifacts must be collected as players attempt to solve ancient puzzles, which will give access to other areas or items.

Quake. Fun in many ways, lacking in many others. As done in the past, Raven has taken the latest id technology and put together a dandy game. As with its predecessors, Hexen 2 combines role-playing elements with the gorgeous Quake engine in a way that will please both hard-core action game fans as well as role-playing game fans. The puzzles aren't brain busters, but they are no walk in the park either. Most of them consist of finding the right number of items and placing them in the correct spot, but some puzzles go a little bit deeper, much deeper than Quake anyhow.

Regardless of if you download the game here or own the cdrom for the following games=doom(1and2)=heretic=hexen=strife. There is a wonderful program called ZANDRONUM (forget dosbox for these games) download the free zandronum program and enjoy these games as they SHOULD be played, play them in the windows environment, I play using the mouse+WASD.

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The premise is simple, four Serpent Riders are left in the world, and you have to dispel them. Each Serpent Rider is a boss of a 'hub' or a large area in the game. Unlike Quake, Hexen 2 isn't laid out in linear levels, instead there are large areas interconnected through portals. Each hub has its own specific time period that it's set in, giving the player a new experience in each hub. These time periods are Medieval, Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and Meso-American. This time around, there are four character classes, one greater than Hexen's original three. They include the Assassin, the Crusader, the Paladin, and the Necromancer. Each character has different weapons and different abilities. For example, the Assassin can hide in the shadows and at the brink of death the Paladin sometimes receives a healing gift from his god. Although each class only has 4 weapons, when you add all the weapons up: that's 16. Plus the Tome of Power which changes the effect of each weapon, bringing the grand total to 32. A refreshing variety after Quake's 8.

The graphics are, in a word, gorgeous. Raven's graphical ability can be traced all the way back to Heretic; in fact, Raven's games have always looked better than id's incarnations under the same engine. The characters are modeled splendidly, tapping once again from Raven's artistic talent. From spiders to flying gargoyles, Hexen 2 has it all. They've also taken id's particles to the next level - not only are they used for some explosions, they're used in fountains and in other environmental effects, it just looks great. Many complaints about Quake lay in the bland looking weapons. If you were one of those people, you won't be disappointed. Hexen 2's weapons are genuinely impressive and innovative. As Shakespeare and game evangelists would say, 'the play's the thing' and graphics don't matter. However, it's hard to say that after seeing this game (especially in 3dfx mode), it just looks phat (for those who don't speak ebonics: that means 'good').

Even with its graphic superiority, what stands out even more is the level design. From the towns of the medieval times to the pyramids of the ancient Egyptians, Raven has left no detail out. Break tables, smash statues, knock down book cases, crack windows. Like to break things? Don't want to get arrested for it? Hexen 2 is the game for you: you can interact with the environment more than any other first person action game on the market.

The sound? Its fine, but frankly, you don't notice it. Which isn't a bad thing, you'll be so immersed in this game you wont really be thinking about each sound effect, instead it'll be a complete experience. This level of immersion is what really makes Hexen 2 fun, an hour will pass and it'll seem like a minute. Hexen 2, in essence, is an action game with only a few RPG elements. It has puzzles, but your average bombastic grade school graduate should have no problem solving them. The multiplayer aspect is based exactly on Quake's, so don't expect many differences other than the obvious character class options. If you like action games but are bored by incessant violence, I highly reccomend Hexen 2.

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, Heretic, Heretic 2, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Quake 2, Quake, Doom 2

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Description of Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Heretic's sequel, Hexen: Beyond Heretic brings much more to the plate than its successful predecessor.

As one of the first FPS games to introduce character classes, Hexen quickly became a fan favourite at LAN parties, due to its co-op mode, when played over the network.Also, unlike other games of that era, its level design was not as linear, which gave it an open world feeling to it... though it does feel short (in comparison with Heretic).

The story is quite simple, as much as stories in such games go: there is a big baddy, Korax, the second of the Serpent Riders (the first of whom dies in Heretic), who will do anything to stop you from killing him (can you blame him?)

Enter you, the Warrior, Mage or Cleric who will not stand for such madness and will dispatch any and all minions using a plethora of weapons: a close-range Axe, a throwing hammer and an exploding sword (for the warrior), a mace, a shooting staff, a burning spell and what looks like a crucifix that spits out forsaken souls, that kill the baddies (Cleric) and all sorts of wands and spells doing different types of damage (frost, electrical and... blood!) for the Mage.

Obviously, Hexen (just as no other abandoned game) should not be judged by today's standards. However, when it came out, you could see clearly Raven had used Doom's engine (with some tweaks) and reused a lot of sprites and textures from the original Heretic game. Whether it was just sloppy design, trying to hit a deadline or simply trying to keep the spirit of the old game, it did leave some of us wanting.

Review By Greg

Hexen: Beyond Heretic has the following addons available: Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel and H!Zone, don't miss them!

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KC2018-09-02-1 point

The instructions above on how to play Hexen do not work with a Mac. You can not use C:GamesHexen, Mac will not allow it. I downloaded the RIP version of the game and it works, however the controls are stupid with no way to change them. You have to use the mouse, keyboard, or mouse and keyboard, none of which work very well. The keyboard is my preference on similar games using the arrow keys and a fire button, but on this version the arrow keys MOVE you left and right, they do not turn you left and right. Then you have to use the period and comma keys to turn, but the left button turns you right and the right button turns you left. The mouse/keyboard combo is not much better. I give the game a 1 star because of the controls.

oi2018-08-22-2 points

why would you buy a mac? i have no respect for such nonsense

mr_troy2017-12-301 point

Crap, there is on chance to re-configurate controls on mac =(

sofloppy2017-12-170 point

i plasyed this when i was 12 its sooo fun

crappy username2017-12-081 point

As a late answer to KISSKIZZKISS's question, Raven Software released the source code to both Heretic and Hexen in 1999. This let's you add anything you want into Hexen (including NPCs) if you have the programming skills to do it. If you instead want something up to date (and a little easier), Zandronum and GZDoom support DECORATE, which is an easier way of coding in your own things for mods, or even entire games; and since Strife has been ported to those two source ports, you could just copy the NPC code from Strife, and then add to Hexen.

memes2017-09-101 point

thank god for this site, I Finally have things

other2017-08-04-5 points

Baron of hell, you moron. Why do you think that the CD version exists in the first place? Seriously, you are an absolute idiot if you can't grasp why the CD version is so much larger.

Akki2017-06-232 points

i love it

pravin2016-04-183 points

when i was small....i admire this game alot...it will go beyond day and nights to finish this game and i love this game to the end...but I havent finish yet and finish it this time foresure

Beanovsky Durst2016-04-130 point

The ISO version must have the audio tracks from the retail disc instead of MIDI...
I have an original copy of Hexen that features this. Maybe this explains why it is 500+mb

Baron of Hell2016-02-243 points

RIP ver.: ~10mb
ISO ver.: 567mb
This is a joke.

Alex2016-02-150 point

I really prefer gzdoom avor zandronum
I suggest playing like a modern FPS (always mouse look, move using wasd and so on).
Lots of fun!

kissKIZZkiss2016-02-130 point

i want to be able to make my own enemy npc's for this game, does anyone know how I can be able to do this?

SwoodFace McDunkHead2016-02-104 points

Is there anything I'm missing from the ISO version if I play the RIP version?

SuperHappyFunTime2016-01-31-1 point

could not get the expansion to work,maybe because I am using zandronum.
will have to try it in dosbox I am guessing.
superhappyfuntime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SuperHappyFunTime2016-01-31-1 point

attention fellow gamers:
regardless of if you download the game here or own the cdrom for the following games=doom(1and2)=heretic=hexen=strife. there is a wonderful program called ZANDRONUM (forget dosbox for these games) download the free zandronum program and enjoy these games as they SHOULD be played, play them in the windows environment, I play using the mouse+WASD keys , and if your pc suppords OPENGL then you can make the game look MUCH MUCH better.
so if you didn't know about this program then you OWE it to yourself to give it a try. trust me you won't be disappointed.
have a very superhappyfuntime my fellow gamers.

retroman2015-12-230 point

a classic!

noy2015-12-120 point

hoy

graham Armstrong2015-12-050 point

Hexen along with doom, doom2, shadow warrior, heretic, dark forces and quake
Superseed any game of today. These particular games are timeless and just fantastic in my opinion.
And they can all be played once again on these new modern computers thanks to the DOSBOX program. Fabulous

PIRATE_BASTARD2015-10-090 point

lots of puzzles and shit ,very very muind boggling i said. sometiems i just doint want to think in games,. but ,if you like to think , and like having puzzles in games and sit aorund and do a lo of thinking, then, well, GREAT !!

PIRATE_BASTARD2015-10-090 point

great game, but very mind boggling

Miguelasdxd2015-09-220 point

:D

luciano2015-07-222 points DOS version

Best game

Morken7722015-06-250 point DOS version

Great! But hard to configure the sound :/

Hulsie2015-05-022 points DOS version

Very good game! There's actually some very challenging puzzles for being a FPS.

fefiss2015-03-290 point DOS version

Is the ISO version a full version? Thanks

Kyaw Thu Han2014-08-141 point DOS version

Thanks a lot for sharing. Sure bring back old memories when i was a kid, playing this game.

penisbreath2014-08-120 point DOS version

its a video game

batts2014-05-121 point DOS version

nice game to play brings back a lot of old memories

dreaminginverse2014-05-080 point DOS version

I remember grabbing this for tn64 back in the day, thx alot!

Doctor bad2014-04-271 point DOS version

Seul s'est bon :)

Guyofdoom422014-03-300 point DOS version

Actually, more like D&D

Bl00der2014-03-24-1 point DOS version

THE BEST GAME EVER

Contractor2014-03-20-1 point DOS version

This game and several others played well with the VFX-1 HMD. A spaceorb 360 with the lights out and Wow! Still have the VFX-1 :)

var string()2014-02-25-1 point DOS version

If the gamma is too high for you as well, like a previous poster said, press F11 in an active game to adjust the Gamma correction.
This is an excellent game, by the way.

DOSBox2014-02-160 point DOS version

the gamma is WAY too high!

[ERROR_42]2014-02-14-1 point DOS version

Doom + LOTR (Sorta) + Jumping = Heretic and Hexen.

indstr2014-02-124 points DOS version

HeXeN! Oh how I love thee! It remains in my top 5 video games of all time. It was always superior to DooM and Heretic in my opinion. I have so many memories of this game, primarily playing modem-to-modem games with my friend, and later on serial and LAN games. We always played co-operatively. I was always the cleric and he was always the mage. We had to unplug all the phones in our house so we could dial each other at night to play modem games. My computer was slower so he always had to wait for mine to load. When one of us died, we had to disconnect and dial back so we could reload our save game so we could retain all our items. Later on we got smarter, you could press a key (F11 maybe?) to 'see through each others' eyes'... So we would take turns going through difficult sections, and one of us would stand in front of a level-warp portal and watch the other do difficult jumps. If he started to fall, we would press forward so it would warp us out before he died. Ahaha. So many classic memories.
Highly recommended. Truly. If you have never played HeXeN, you owe it to yourself to try it out. You won't regret it. Amazing atmosphere, amazing gameplay, amazing level design, just everything is top notch. Great!

L3d2014-01-29-1 point DOS version

so doomsdayhq is the thing to install right after tis ,hmmmmmm

Johnson C.2013-12-01-1 point DOS version

Super cool, man!

Baphomet2013-11-22-1 point DOS version

LOL ILL CHOOSE SOME HEXEN BUT NOTHING ELSE TO GIVE SV_CHEATS AND SV_INFINITEAMMO. ONCE IF THE OMEGA KORAX WAS KILLED FROM HEXEN RESURRECTION OF CHAOS THE OMEGA KORAX ARE SHOUTING WHEN THEY ARE KILLED.

Clovis2013-11-020 point DOS version

u are a friendly god.
Bonne continuation à ton site.

Flesh wizard X2013-09-210 point DOS version

SLOCKER EARTH!!!

PaladinSniper2013-09-020 point DOS version

Amazing. Legendary. Unique.

cam2013-08-220 point DOS version

Awsome i played this when i was a kid and i love it

Bulletspammer2013-08-170 point DOS version

Don't attack the Heresiarch while those things rotate around him.

Megaman ex2013-08-080 point DOS version

If you play it you will love it

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Donald Westington2013-07-220 point DOS version

This is my favorite game of all time. Much better than Doom or Duke Nukem, although those games are awesome as well.

Snotfolus2013-07-130 point DOS version

OMG i cant kill Heresiarch within his Power you Motherf -

Gottamspensor2013-06-220 point DOS version

Love this game lots of nostalgia

Cloud08th2013-06-110 point DOS version

i love it *-*

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Tejas2013-05-300 point DOS version

I like it most.

Greek2013-05-180 point DOS version

Shit if im Defeat that Korax that should be a Teleport and another Hostles incoming in the Left and Right doors open at them
Okay okay ill go home watch my back

lrgpns2013-05-160 point DOS version

A lot of people bash this for not being more like Doom or Heretic, but it's awesome if you appreciate it for what it is.

Robek2013-04-080 point DOS version

I love this part!

Kurt2013-03-160 point DOS version

Like a Boss!
Supa Fun

Leitbild2013-02-130 point DOS version

The long awaited sequel to the Heretic universe, back then...
Man how was I keen and expectant about it! Then I played it and... It was good, but not as good as Heretic... Heretic was a great action game, while Hexen needs you to think too much and you have to orienate much too often on repetetive areas while searching for gears, skulls, gems and other puzzle pieces to solve a whole level hub. Sometimes it really was frustrating, so I always prefered it's prequel a little bit more!
But all in all a very recommendable game, where you have much more to do than just running and fragging around while just searching for keys... A nice challenge, also for your mind! ;)

Arie2013-02-120 point DOS version

Great game!! bisa nostalgia nih.. :D

Hinochi2013-02-020 point DOS version

I remember staying up late, watching my grandmother play this game. Playing games by ID is always a good time.

Carlsgro2013-01-080 point DOS version

doom engine used well

TheMisT2013-01-010 point DOS version

A very very very good game!!! The game of my childhood! And the mage player is very good, it's the only shot (the first weapon) that doesn't spend mana

nespc2012-11-060 point DOS version

this game is more glorious than jack black and his octagon.

Ivellios2012-11-050 point DOS version

Awesome game. can someone tell me how to grab the keys?? THANKS!

Krazy Joe2012-07-270 point DOS version

This is the sequel to Heretic, and after this is Hexen II. There is also a Heretic II but it was published by Activision.

thromac2012-07-130 point DOS version

it's the fulll game? cuz' there's a lot of demos around there...

Shamsy2012-06-020 point DOS version

Great game, THANK YOU ID SOFTWARE!
..and myabondonware...
yes.

pixel2012-05-290 point DOS version

Great!

Das Orakel2011-12-140 point DOS version

Hexen 2 :D

GamerGirl2011-11-180 point DOS version

I love this series! Just wish I knew what the sequel was called...

Cd Black2011-10-290 point DOS version

Love this

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