One small step of an improvment from Heretic....but one giant leap in fustration.

User Rating: 4.5 | Hexen: Beyond Heretic PC
Hexen started off seeming to be a new, fun FPS from the original PC powerhouse company: id software. The principal was very nice. Multi class FPS so if you beat the game as one class....you can try it as another class. Plus they touched up the graphics, the weapons, the sound, and the enemines to give the game a more "new" feel to it than what Heretic did. However, they also revamped the levels themselves making what was basically super huge levels into multi levels and then spreading keys randomly throughout. This made progession INSANELY difficult as you could spend hours looking over the exact same spots, and having to back track to find one key. Not only that, as you did progess (if you were lucky) then the levels got even larger and the key got even more random. It's a shame that's the direction that the developers took because Hexen really had the chance to be a hell of great game and I typically don't even like fantasy games.

So pretty much, if you like fustrating endless puzzles for levels then Hexen is an great classic that's perfect for you. However if you are the standard Doom fan who hates having to hunt for keys, then PLEASE don't play this game!