Hexen: Beyond Heretic
Game information
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| Category: | 3D Shooting |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Violence: |  Yes |
| DOSBox: |  Supported (show details) |
| More details: | MobyGames |
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Description
Hexen is the sequel to Heretic. 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 (first person shooter) 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 destructable objects such as trees and vases.
Description by MobyGames
Cheats
To use a cheat code in most versions of Hexen, one simply types the code while playing (this also applies while in automap mode). After the last letter has been entered, a message of acknowledgement will appear at the top of the screen. The status bar and ingame view may also change, depending on the effects of the code.
bgokey: Makes the player immune to all damage excluding teleport frags, spikes, and fall damage from extreme heights ("God mode").
sgurno: Sets health to 100%.
rjohnson: No clipping (the player can walk through walls, characters, and obstacles, climb high ledges instantly, and pass through items and across all tagged linedefs with no effect).
cstika: Carnage; Kills all monsters on the current level.
crhinehart: Gives all weapons, full mana and full armor.
braffel: Full Inventory; Gives the maximum amount of each artifact.
mraymondjudy: Gives all keys.
tmoore Gives all puzzle items.
plipo#: Change player class to #: 0 = Fighter, 1 = Cleric, 2 = Mage.
bpelletier##: Warps to level ## [01-04] (does not deactivate '-nomonsters' command line option).
init: Restarts level, removes everything the player is carrying and disables cheats.
mwagabaza##: Run script ## [01-99].
reveal: First time: full automap (reveals unexplored areas).
Second time: full automap with items and enemies.
Third time: back to normal.
jsumwalt: Shows the player's coordinates and compass direction (note that these numbers are hexadecimal, and may require some practice to interpret quickly).
rrettenmund: Toggles ticks-per-frame counter.
kschilder: Display sound debug info.
pmacarther: Display version info.
ebiessman: Pig mode; turns the player into a pig with 30% health.
quicken: Type three times with short intervals to kill the player. Originally a god-mode cheat in Heretic.
rambo: Removes all weapons (excluding the first) and mana the player has. (Gives all weapons and full ammo and armor in Heretic)
wewin: disabled (wins the game; only in first demo version).
Cheats by VGTips.com
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Download
| File | File type |
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| hexen.zip | Playable demo |
