As either the mage, cleric or warrior, you are bent on a mission to kill the undead and find the Riders whom you must destroy to complete the game. This is a world where the murderous undead, under the spell of the Serpent Riders, have littered the landscape with mangled corpses. While battling the forces of D-Sparil, evil Serpent Riders began the annihilation of a strange and tattered dimension. The game, as aforementioned, includes a multiplayer mode, allowing 1-4 players to play simultaneously, and 1-4 players can team up to battle the computer AI, if they choose. Each character can use up to four weapons, so there are at least 12 weapons in all. Hexen, not Hexen 64 as we reported yesterday, is a straight port of the PC game, with the same 31 levels from the PC game, and character choices including a mage, a cleric and a warrior. Slowdown is at a minimal, and for the most part everything runs fine even on high detail. Hexen's multiplayer option is cool, and really fun to play. We suspect that Midway declined to make a multiplayer mode because of the inevitably inherent slowdown players see when large quantities of polygons (or sprites) are thrown onto the screen at one time.

Which leads us to ask, 'Why not?' Out of the three developers making other similar games, only Midway would go far enough to say that Nintendo wouldn't provide it with linking capabilities, and that the surprise of the multiplayer game was watered down by a four-way split-screen. Midway didn't do that with Doom 64, and no developer of Doom-style action games has actually announced this feature for their games either. Hexen will arrive on Nintendo 64 this June, and, says Alan Lewis, communications manager at GT Interactive, it will be the first multiplayer Doom-style game on the 64-bit console. Doom exists on almost every current, viable system now, and Hexen is following in its footsteps, filling in each console's library slowly but surely. Id Software's games a few years back became the hot item to port to any non-PC system. Developer: Id Software/Raven Software/Software Creations Release Date: June Origin: U.S.

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