25th Anniversary of Heretic 2. The last great Heretic/Hexen Game.

Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the last entry into the Heretic/Hexen franchise.

Ever since the rise of boomer shooters in the last 5 years, since 2018-2019, these type of games have become more and more popular as seen by the recent remaster of Quake 2. Community made mods and patches is now available and Heretic 2 has been updated to the latest version to celebrate it's 25th Anniversary and it's free to download.

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Surprisingly with the Quake 2 engine and with the newer effects in the updated mods and patch, it looks pretty good at 1080P and above. Goes to show how far the Quake 2 engine was when compared to consoles at the time. The game was severely underrated and got overlooked by Half-Life when Half-Life was released couple of weeks later which overtook it in terms of hype and popularity. In other words, it had the misfortunate of being released around the time of Half-Life just like SiN which was also underrated.

Enjoy to those who want to try a blast from the past on modern PCs!

Gamespot's review of Heretic 2:

https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/heretic-ii-review/1900-2537536/

Was pretty good!

Nightdive should do a Heretic and Hexen remaster. A blood remaster would be awesome too.

Forget which, Heretic or Hexen, whichever came first, that's the one I played. Like wizard Doom. Now Microsoft owns both of those via the ABK acquisition. They may want some re-release to add it to Game Pass. Perhaps they should partner with 3D Realms since they're taking a committed approach to re-releasing older PC games, and bringing them to consoles too. Might also help build a great working relationship to bring more of their content to Xbox and Game Pass.

I want a new one.

This. I saw 3D Realms stream all the games and boomer shooters that are coming out with their partners and various developers. It's no longer the original 3D Realms of the 90s. I could see them do a great job of bringing a new Heretic/Hexen game with the IP. Have doubts though Microsoft will release the IP to 3D Realms. Bringing them to consoles would also be great for the younger gamers.