Starting off with the training level is a good idea as it will teach you everything you need to know about controlling Corvus, learning the interface, and understanding the weapons system. Weapons such as the staff, when not being used to bludgeon the nearest monster to death, can be used to extend the distance Corvus is capable of jumping. Corvus is capable of doing back flips, forward rolls, climbing techniques, and the various types of jumps will initially make you wish you had a third hand, but as you get into the game control becomes easier with practice. Being the hero that he is - and due to the fact that he catches it himself - Corvus heads off to rid the land of this magical plague.Ĭontrolling Corvus can be a bit of a handful starting off, not because of awkward camera movement, which Heretic II handles unusually well, but because of his huge range of moves. Most are warped and twisted into a blood-crazed rage that dives them to assault nearly any that they encounter (this is disturbingly a good reason to give them a battering and try out some of Corvus' many moves). The plot revolves around your character, Corvus, who returns to his people to find the city streets filled with noxious green plague vapours that cause insanity and then death to any unfortunate enough to inhale it. After Heretic I and Hexen, Raven seem to have learned their lesson and done away with the tedious and sometimes confusing hub-based system and gone for a linear level design. While Lara seems to spend most of her adventures running around jumping from ledge to ledge and solving puzzles, Raven have taken Heretic II down a slightly different road turning it into an action-packed shoot-'em-up with a minimum of puzzle solving and some great lighting and water effects.
This cleverly avoided direct competition with games that were already on the market such as Half-Life and Tomb Raider's. Raven has managed to avoid the predictable first-person shoot-'em-up associated with the Quake variants and have gone for a third person view. The approach to Heretic II is refreshing to say the least. Hey, it's Quake II in tights… well, almost.
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