Hexen II

Hexen II is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Raven Software from 1996 to 1997, published by id Software and distributed by Activision. It was the third game in the Hexen/Heretic series, and the last in the Serpent Riders trilogy. It was made available on Steam on August 3, 2007. Using a modified Quake engine, it featured single player and multiplayer game modes, as well as four character classes to choose from, each with different abilities.

Improvements from Hexen and Quake included destructible environments, mounted weapons, and unique level up abilities. Like its predecessor, Hexen II also used a hub system. These hubs were a number of interconnected levels; changes made in one level had effects in another.

Hexen II, by way of the Quake engine, uses OpenGL for 3D acceleration. However, due to the prevalence of 3dfx hardware at the time of release, the game installs an OpenGL ICD designed specifically for 3dfx's hardware, and thus is only compatible with 3dfx hardware.

However, users with modern video cards can bypass the proprietary driver limitation by simply removing the "opengl32.dll" file from the Hexen II directory. This forces the game to use the OpenGL library already installed on the system.

In this video, you can see an early demo version using 3D hardware acceleration via OpenGL.

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[DarkJedi188]

There should be a Heretic&Hexen movie trilogy similar to the Lord Of The Rings movies.

[i486x]

Hey, I've come across some of your Heretic II mods. Can't wait to try it out. Nice job :)

[tobyuuuuu]

I enjoyed this game and really loved the graphics back then...

[CatTitBingo]

lol i disliked cos you killed the sheep :D

[DarkJedi188]

@i486x Thanks! I really enjoyed building those back in 2004.