Classic shooters Heretic and Hexen re-released as an "enhanced" bundle with cross-platform multiplayer and mod support

Nightdive and id Software person been hard astatine enactment restoring yet much 90s things

Wake up, it's the 90s again. Ok, truthful possibly I've lied to you there, but 2 classical shooters from the decennary that I arsenic a kid of 1999 decidedly retrieve fondly person been re-released arsenic 1 useful bundle with immoderate other features. Heretic + Hexen is retired now.

The astonishment re-release of these virtual spell boxes came arsenic portion of QuakeCon, with Nightdive Studios and id Software collborating to revamp much aged schoolhouse shooty things aft doing the aforesaid with Doom and Doom 2 past year.

Announced by id’s Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin during past night's QuakeCon invited stream, the Heretic + Hexen bundle gives you Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, and Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel. Plus, determination are 2 caller chapters developed specially for the re-release: Heretic: Faith Renewed and Hexen: Vestiges of Grandier.

If you've already got the aged versions of 1 oregon much of the games successful your library, you'll beryllium offered a escaped upgrade to the caller bundle and clasp entree to those erstwhile versions, alternatively than the caller happening annoyingly overwriting them.

"There were level designers (including myself) that wanted to enactment connected thing caller for Heretic and Hexen," developer Matthew Tropiano said of however the caller sections came to beryllium successful an Xbox Wire interview, "Kaiser (Sam Villareal) took constituent connected the Heretic episode, portion I handled the Hexen episode. We some enlisted the assistance of assemblage subordinate Not Jabba, arsenic good arsenic Heretic + Hexen pb Xaser Acheron for representation design, and creator Arthur Biver for further graphic work." He and Jaemen Moore added the games' archetypal devs person been portion of "inspiring immoderate of the areas", with the Heretic section specifically drafting connected "unused artwork" for immoderate textures and 2 enemies, the draugr and troll.

Alongside those chapters, the caller additions besides see the likes of in-game enactment for assemblage mods, local, online multiplayer enactment for up to 16 players with crossplay, and a remixed soundtrack by composer Andrew Hulshult. There are besides show tweaks that'll present up to 4K solution and 120 FPS if you're packing the close hardware, and a vault wherever you tin cheque retired the likes of classical conception art.

Heretic + Hexen volition acceptable america PC folks backmost £13.49/$14.99, via Steam oregon GOG.com, and it's besides connected Xbox Game Pass. If you've not played the archetypal Hexen, here's our erstwhile lawman exertion Adam with immoderate words connected it. If you've not played Heretic past I dunno, possibly ideate it's 1994 and you're enjoying a acheronian phantasy sibling of Doom. It features a magic ovum that tin crook enemies into chickens. Life's good. Or astatine slightest I presume it was.