Hexen II

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Hexen II.

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article?

To do: https://web.archive.org/web/19970607053542/http://www.ravensoft.com/hex2view.html Interviews Gameslice interview with Raven Interviews with Brain Raffel Interview with Brain Raffel and Rick Johnson (txt with only the interview). Interviews with Portal of Praevus developers Media Some videos shown here (downloads don't work) Five .AVIs from Activision's ftp server. https://web.archive.org/web/19970605180044/http://www.next-generation.com/news/032197g.chtml https://web.archive.org/web/19970605151806/http://www.next-generation.com/previews2/pc/hexen23.chtml Official website Other News for February 24, 1997 (OGR) News from August (OGR) Preview

Development Timeline#

TBA

Hecatomb#

According to John Romero, the third game of the Serpent Riders trilogy was planned to be called "Hecatomb" but due to Romero leaving id after the release of Quake this wasn't to be. Activision later convinced Raven that Heretic and Hexen could be treated as separate franchises, Leding to the creation of Hexen II and Heretic II.

Ultimately, only a few select ideas from Romero made their way into these games.¹

Early Screenshots#

Gameslice Preview (September 27th, 1996)#

Gameslice Preview (December 25th, 1996)#

Raven's Website#

To do: hex2_09.gif (there are mirrors on some archived sites but they're usually jpgs), and about when were these images published?

Videos#

Gameslice Preview (September 27th, 1996)#

Gameslice Preview (December 25th, 1996)#

Concept Art#

To do: Likely more.

Weapons#

Horsemen#

References#