AMID EVIL is a new retro first-person shooter, created by the producers of DUSK and the creators of Return of the Triad. This retro shooter can be easily described as the spiritual successor to Heretic and below you can read our first impressions of it, accompanied by a video showing the game’s first chapter.
AMID EVIL is an old-school shooter in every way. Right from the start, we are treated with a Quake 1 reference as players will have to choose their difficulty level by stepping in specific portals. And then the game starts and it’s a blast from the past.
Player movement is similar to the one we’ve enjoyed in all the 90s old-school shooters and the visuals are pixelated in such a way that they will immediately remind you all those classic games like Heretic, Hexen, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood and more.
The Early Access build features three single-player episodes and with Hordes of Evil. The final version will come with seven campaign episodes plus more Hordes of Evil (endless mode) arenas.
Similarly to its visuals, its gameplay is as close to the old-school shooters as it could possibly be. Players will have to explore the game’s environments in order to find keys so they can open doors and finish the levels. While exploring these levels, they will find new weapons that they can use in order to fight various types of enemies. Sounds too simplistic, right? Well, that’s the beauty of it.
Now as you may have noticed, I’ve been mostly using Heretic and Hexen as references. And the reason behind this is because the enemies, level design and weapons are similar to those of Heretic/Hexen. So yeah, think of this game as a new Heretic.
AMID EVIL is a lot of fun. There are no cut-scenes, no arrows to show you where you should go, no restrictions so that you ‘return to the mission area’… none of this new-gen stuff. This is made for all the old-school shooter fans out there that miss those mindless games. And it works.
Below you will find our video showing the game’s first chapter. Do note that this is our first play (that’s the purpose of our videos after all, so there is – understandably – some backtracking)!
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This looks exactly like I imagine how a modern day Hexen/Heretic would look. Can’t wait to try it out one day. I seriously love everything about it. I just hope there are no absolutely ridiculous puzzles in the game that cause you do want to die attempting to figure them out.
heretic not hexen, hexen can be summed up “you have completed 1/6th of the puzzle, good luck finding out what the flying fck you suppose to do in order to finish the remaining 5 parts”
I fully agree with most of your thoughts in this review article, @JOHN. This is one of the better old-school shooters recently made, and I wish more developers follow suit.
Classic old-school fans shouldn’t miss this title. I started playing the first level, and the gameplay seems similar to the classic games of the early 90s.
I’ve been a huge fan of the old HEXEN/Heretic PC era.
BTW, this game also comes will full CHEAT CODES as well. Launch the game, then at the main menu under the CODEX section, you will find many CHEATS being listed.
I think some of them are disabled, but not all, and I don’t think they are case-sensitive either.
I tried few of them, and they all work like a charm.
But obviously, this is only for those who want to play and enjoy the game with CHEATS, and don’t like too many challenges, like myself included.
Anyways, if you access the CODEX section, there you can see all the codes listed for the cheats, but I was unable to access and open any in-game CONSOLE, via any keyboard key, or combination, like the famous tilde key (~), or Ctrl+Alt+~ etc.
But, if you just type the CODES, the cheats seem to work like a charm. Bring up the CODEX section by pressing F1 once you have loaded the level, and then just keep on typing the codes, they will surely work.
Sounds kind of odd, because we can’t see the text which we are typing IMO, but the codes indeed seem to work (even after we have loaded the game’s Level).
Some cheat examples, just for reference:
IDDQD — Displays a random funny message on-screen. Not a cheat though.
AEOMG — GOD mode for the player I suppose.
AEMAGE — FULL MANA.
AEWIZARD — All in-game weapons, mana and keys.
AENIMA — Soul mode (not sure what this does, as of now).
AEWARLOCK —- Gives the player all weapons.
AELEON — Level select.
AETHER — No clip mode.
AERO — FLY mode for the player.
AEBORT — Quits the game.
There are many more codes to type, and experiment with. I’m still digging into this, and trying to mod/mess with the game’s files as well.
Thanks for reading, and Happy shooting !
read my post So many oldschool fps.
Okay, that’s true. But, how will you actually rate this Amid Evil game, as compared to both old and new first-person action/shooter games ?
Very good, Good, Average, or bad/poor, based on gameplay and Level design ?
gameplay is great, needs more variety in weapons, level design could have more varied and memorable enviroments, so far its just corridors.
I did not tell you to read my post for my wolfenstein 2 criique, but for all the oldschool fps are coming out.
Wolfenstein 2 : “ok listen you cant carry alot of weapons and they are pretty genric, you move too slow, you gotta sprint, aiming down the sights, although its optional, 50 health basic hitpoints, linear undergound corridors, no keycards every 3 minutes we will interupt you with a
long cutscene and we will re arange your inventory in every mission” Basic game without cutscenes can be completed in 2.5 hours.
This game “here have 7 episodes of non stop action with large nonlinear levels and over the top weapons, by the way you move faster than sonic on diarrhea.
Dusk, Amid evil, AMC TC episode 3, Blade of Agony episode 3, Ion maiden, hellbound and doom 2. What a time to be a live for oldschool fps fans.
what a terrible comment.
do you even like games?