Heretic II

It was Michael's birthday the other day (happy belated birthday!). Inspired by their birthday wish, today's blog post is about an obscure game that is very dear to me: Heretic II. Heretic II is a "wicked 3D action fantasy" that came out in 1998 developed by Raven Software. You might be thinking it's a sequel based on that "2" in the name, it's actually the fourth game in the Hexen/Heretic series, following the previous Serpent Riders trilogy games (Hexen, Hexen 2, and Heretic). I've only played the one game though. Right now it's abandonware. You can't buy Heretic II anywhere anymore. Heretic and Hexen are available on Steam but not the sequels. ] Look at the size of that game box!! I remember my dad going on about how amazing the graphics were. The game has a few cutscenes that looked positively movie-like at the time. I'm not sure when we ended up getting the game vs. its release date. I think my dad bought it for himself to play and eventually when we got older, we started playing…