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Ah, The Good Old Days, when FPSs were fast and maps were made shoddily by our friends. Retro remake Rise of the Triad is now prodding your PC gaming nostalgia gland harder, with a new patch yesterday adding an editor to make maps and mods, as well as much-requested quicksaving.
Rise of the Triad has issued its 1.1 patch with five free multiplayer maps, hundreds of bug fixes, and a new trailer.
Nostalgianauts, today you get to play in blood and guts galore. Throwback FPS Rise of the Triad launched on PC today, bringing back the classic shooter series with all its dual-wielded pistols, rocket launchers, supernatural baseball bats, dog maulings, nets, magic powers, gibs, gibs, and gibs, as the launch trailer demonstrates.
Rise of the Triad pre-orders are now open, and include Rise of the Triad: Dark War, and the Blake Stone games Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike.
Interceptor and Apogee Software announced today that Rise of the Triad will be coming this summer. The PC specs have also been detailed, so you can plan accordingly.
Zippy movement, nasty gibs, health packs, and ridiculous weaponry, that's the sort of jazz you'd hope for in a reboot of a vintage FPS, right? Well by golly, the new Rise of the Triad has all that yore-y stuff and more. A new trailer from developer Interceptor Entertainment shows 17 minutes of straight multiplayer action, unedited aside from odd little annotations. Many men are exploded into small pieces.
Before Duke Nukem had sunglasses, delivered pithy one-liners and surrounded himself with strippers, he was just kicking alien butt. To commorate...
If you enjoyed the original Rise of the Triad from Apogee back in 1995, then don't expect too much more from the upcoming reboot from Interceptor, except a few game tweaks and an Unreal Engine 3 upgrade. OK, that may be enough to try it again.
Rise of the Triad was officially announced at QuakeCon today, and it's due out later this year via Steam.
The authorized fan remake of Duke Nukem 3D in Unreal Engine 3 has been placed on indefinite hold for reasons not entirely clear, though the team does hopes to finish it one day.
