The Old Shoebox: Heretic shareware

March 3, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Released quickly after Doom, using a modified version of the same game engine, Heretic is a fantasy first person shooter designed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed, along with everything else in those days, by GT Interactive in 1994. Heretic introduced ambient noise — evil laughter and such — that was random, [...]

Retro: Nam game review

Nov. 1, 2007   2 Comments  

This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1998. By John Guilfoil Nam is a 3D action game that sets you in the middle of the Vietnam War. Your war machine arsenal consists of the M60 machine gun, M79 grenade launcher, M16 rifles, flame-throwers, C4 plastic explosives, a sniper rifle and more. You play a roughneck [...]