In the pantheon of 1990s first-person shooters, Hexen: Beyond Heretic holds a unique place. It replaced the rapid-fire spell-slinging of Heretic with a slower, puzzle-heavy, class-based approach. However, the experience many players remember today was not the vanilla release. It was an unofficial, community-crafted masterpiece: .
, the official expansion pack for the 1995 dark fantasy shooter Hexen: Beyond Heretic hexdd.wad v1.1
After some great feedback on the initial release, I’m happy to share – a single-player/coop mapset that blends Doom’s combat with Hexen’s dark fantasy atmosphere and hub-based exploration. In the pantheon of 1990s first-person shooters, Hexen: