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| | Control: | | Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'. |
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| | | Other platforms: | | Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. Be patient :-) | |
| Game info: | 
box cover | Game title: | Heretic | | Platform: | MS-DOS | | Author (released): | Raven Software Corporation (1994) | | Genre: | Action, Shooter | Mode: | Single-player | | Design: | Ben Gokey, Chris Rhinehart | | Music: | Kevin Schilder | | Game manual: | manual.pdf | File size: | 7295 kB | | Download: | not available (stream only) | Game size: | 7154 kB | | Recommended emulator: | DOSBox | | | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: | Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game created by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive in 1994. It was made available on Steam on August 3, 2007.
Using a modified Doom engine, Heretic was one of the first first-person games to feature inventory manipulation and the ability to look up and down. It also introduced multiple gib objects spawned when a character suffered a death by extreme force or heat. Previously, the character would simply crumple into a heap. | | Heretic (DOS) |
The game used randomized ambient sounds and noises, such as evil laughter, chains rattling, distantly ringing bells and water dripping in addition to the background music to further enhance the atmosphere. All music in the game was composed by Kevin Schilder. An indirect sequel, Hexen, was released a year later. Heretic II was released in 1998, which served as a direct sequel continuing the story.
Three brothers, known as the Serpent Riders, have used their powerful magic to possess seven kings of Parthoris into mindless puppets and corrupt their armies. The Sidhe elves resist the Serpent Riders' magic. The Serpent Riders thus declared the Sidhe as heretics and waged war against them. The Sidhe are forced to take a drastic measure to sever the natural power of the kings destroying them and their armies, but at the cost of weakening the elves' power, giving the Serpent riders an advantage to slay the elders. While the Sidhe retreat, one elf (revealed in the sequel to be named Corvus), sets off on a quest of vengeance against the weakest of the three Serpent Riders, D'Sparil. He travels through the 'City of the Damned', the ruined capital of the Sidhe (its real name is revealed to be Silverspring in Heretic II), then past Hell's Maw and finally the Dome of D'Sparil.
The player must first fight through the undead hordes infesting the site where the elders performed their ritual. At its end is the gateway to Hell's Maw, guarded by the Iron Liches. After defeating them, the player must seal the portal and so prevent further infestation, but after he enters the portal guarded by the Maulotaurs, he finds himself inside D'Sparil's dome. After the slaughter of D'sparil, Corvus ends up on a perilous journey with little hope to return home.
The gameplay of Heretic is heavily derived from Doom, with a level-based structure and an emphasis on finding the proper keys to progress. Many weapons are similar to those from Doom; the early weapons in particular are near-exact copies in functionality to those seen in Doom. Raven did however add a number of touches to Heretic that differentiated it from Doom, notably interactive environments, such as rushing water that pushes the player along, and items. In Heretic, the player can pick up many different items to use at their discretion. These items range from health potions to the 'morph ovum', which transforms enemies into chickens. One of the most notable pickups that can be found is the 'Tome of Power' which creates a much more powerful projectile from each weapon, some of which change the look of the projectile entirely. Heretic also features an improved version of the Doom engine, sporting the ability to look up and down within constraints, as well as fly. However, the rendering method for looking up and down merely uses a proportional pixel-shearing effect rather than any new rendering algorithm, which distorts the view considerably when looking at high-elevation angles.
As with Doom, Heretic contains different cheat codes that variously give the player invulnerability, all weapons, kill everything on a particular level. However, if the player uses the 'all weapons' cheat code from Doom, a message appears warning the player against cheating and takes away all of his weapons, leaving him with only a quarterstaff. If the player uses the 'god mode' cheat from Doom, the game will display a message saying 'Trying to cheat, eh? Now you die!' and kills the player.
The original shareware release was the first game to come bundled with support for online multiplayer through the nascent DWANGO service. More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.org. | | For fans and collectors: | | Find this game on video server YouTube.com or Vimeo.com. | | Buy original version of this game on Amazon.com or eBay.com. | Find digital download of this game on GOGorSteam. | | | Game controls: | All DOS games were controlled directly from the PC keyboard. Some newer DOS games also used a mouse or other more advanced game peripherals for control. However, each game was controlled by different keys. You can find a detailed description of how to control this version of Heretic in the attached game manual. An overview of basic keyboard commands and keyboard shortcuts to control this game is summarized in the following table:
| Keys | Action | | ↑ ↓ | Walk forwards / walk backwards | | ← → | Turn left / turn right | | Ctrl | Fire, hold down to fire rapidly. | | Shift + ↑ or ↓ | Run forwards or backwards | | Alt + ← or → | Strafe (move sideways left or right) | | Space | Open doors, activate switches, etc ... | | PgDn Del End | Look Up / Look Down / Look Forward | | PgUp Ins Home | Fly Up / Fly Down / Drop | | [ ] | Inventory page left / right | | Enter | Select / Use item from inventory. | | Tab | View the Map. | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Weapon selection. | | Esc | View menu. | | F1 | Help |
| | | Platform: | This version of Heretic was designed for personal computers with operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which was operating system developed by Microsoft in 1981. It was the most widely-used operating system in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS wassupplied with most of the IBM computers that purchased a license from Microsoft. After 1995, it was pushed out by a graphically more advanced system - Windows andits development was ceased in 2000. At the time of its greatest fame, several thousand games designed specifically for computers with this system were created. Today, its development is no longer continue and for emulation the free DOSBox emulator is most often used. More information about MS-DOS operating system can be found here. | | | Available online emulators: | 5 different online emulators are available for Heretic. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game Heretic are summarized in the following table:
| | Emulator | Technology | Multiplayer | Fullscreen | Touchscreen | Speed | | Archive.org | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | fast | | js-dos | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | | js-dos 6.22 | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | | jsDosBox | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | slow | | jDosBox | Java applet | YES | YES | NO | fast |
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This version of Heretic was designed for personal computers with operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which was operating system developed by Microsoft in 1981. It was the most widely-used operating system in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS wassupplied with most of the IBM computers that purchased a license from Microsoft. After 1995, it was pushed out by a graphically more advanced system - Windows andits development was ceased in 2000. At the time of its greatest fame, several thousand games designed specifically for computers with this system were created. Today, its development is no longer continue and for emulation the free DOSBox emulator is most often used. More information about MS-DOS operating system can be found