Description
After Corvus returns from his banishment, he finds that a mysterious plague has swept the land of Parthoris, taking the sanity of those it does not kill. Corvus, the protagonist of the first game, is forced to flee his hometown of Silverspring after the infected attack him, but not before he is infected himself. The effects of the disease are held at bay in Corvus’ case because he holds one of the Tomes of Power, but he still must find a cure before he succumbs.
His quest leads him through the city and swamps to a jungle palace, then through a desert canyon and insect hive, followed by a dark network of mines and finally to a castle on a high mountain where he finds an ancient Seraph named Morcalavin. Morcalavin is trying to reach immortality using the seven Tomes of Power, but he uses a false tome, as Corvus has one of them. This has caused Morcalavin to go insane and create the plague. During a battle between Corvus and Morcalavin, Corvus switches the false tome for his real one, curing Morcalavin's insanity and ending the plague.
Unlike previous games in the Heretic/Hexen series, which were first-person shooters, players control Corvus from a camera fixed behind him in the third-person perspective. Players are able to use a combination of both melee and ranged attacks, similar to its predecessor. While there are still three weapons the player can collect that each use their own ammo, they also have the ability to use several offensive and defensive spells that draw from pools of green and blue mana, respectively. The Tome of Power is no longer an item scattered around the levels, but a defensive spell that still works in the same manner as the other games in the series by improving damage and granting weapons and offensive spells new abilities for a limited time. Melee combat is also more varied, with the ability to perform several attacks using Corvus' bladestaff and cut off the limbs of enemies, rendering them harmless. Players are also able to utilize magical shrines throughout the game that grant a variety of effects upon use, such as silver or gold armor, a temporary boost in health, a permanent enhancement to the bladestaff, etc.
The game consists of a wide variety of high fantasy medieval backdrops to Corvus's adventure. The third-person perspective and three-dimensional game environment allowed developers to introduce a wide variety of gymnastic moves, like climbing up ledges, back-flipping off walls, and pole vaulting, in a much more dynamic environment than the original game's engine could produce. Both games invite comparison with their respective game-engine namesake: the original Heretic was built on the Doom engine, and Heretic II was built using the Quake II engine, later known as id Tech 2. Heretic II was favorably received at release because it took a different approach to its design.
System Requirements
OS: Windows 95, 98
CPU: Intel Pentium 166 MHz with 3D hardware accelerator or Intel Pentium 233 MHz
RAM: 32 MB
Hard disk: 800 MB
GPU: SVGA DirectX-compatible video card, 2 MB of VRAM
Screenshots
Repack Notes
- Enhancement Pack v1.07
- Music from CD ripped as WAV tracks & working fine
- The quake2.dll engine has been patched for 1280 x 720 resolution, but in-game in the options menu the resolution must stay at 640 x 480
Inside start menu group folder there is a shortcut to the resolution patcher
Repack v2 changelog:
- Updated the installer to incude more options for game resolution upon installation and removed the resolution changer shortcut from the start menu
WARNING - WARNING - WARNING
It has come to our attention that the game crashes upon starting a new game WITHOUT finishing the game tutorial first (this wasn't happening on Windows 10 2019 for unknown reasons)
So, this time we included a save in which we finished the tutorial, if you decide to include it upon installation, all you have to do is start the game and load the saved game
Upon loading the saved game, it will bring you to the game screen to choose a new game - Easy, Medium, Hard. That way you can finally start a new game
If you do not wish this save to be included, you can uncheck it before installing this repack, BUT you have to complete the game tutorial first!!!1!1!one
If you fail to read this message, nobody is to blame except you
Download (560MB)
https://ouo .io/Mn9EGb (remove the space before .io)
SHA256
Heretic_2_Repack_v2.rar - 97E718C1D3A3E1598450BCFF48DDFF1464ECE61682802C086FBAA3736F9BC6BE
Works really fine. Yes, if main game is started immediately, the game crashes after the intro movie. But for me it's enough going into the tutorial for a second first and then start main game to avoid that bug, I didn't have to play it all the way to end. What I can't figure out here is EAX restoration. Tried both DSOAL and Alchemy, but the menu resets back to default sound driver every time I restart the game, I don't think the dsound drivers are doing anything.
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