Released a year after Doom's shareware debut, Rise of the Triad sits on a weird threshold in first-person shooter design history.
I hadn't anticipated how much Rise of the Triad would annoy me in 2023. I loved it in the '90s, and not just because I was a child with low standards. I gather there were adults in the '90s who loved it too. But in 2023? Well, there's a lot that I admire about it, but to actually play it the way it's designed to be played—without cheat codes, I'm guessing—is a novelty that wanes after, oh, 10 minutes or so.
Doom 1993 had acclimatised first-person shooter fans to expect levels to vaguely resemble real places, albeit fantastical ones. Doom E1M1 did kinda resemble a hangar. E1M2 felt like a nuclear plant with some suspension of disbelief. This wasn't always true—a lot of Doom levels make no sense at all—but id Software had the power to make stairwells, adjust lighting on a fairly granular level, and create semi-lifelike level furniture out of geometry.
Most of the time these levels don't even make sense as videogame spaces. They wend and weave meaninglessly, with not a care in the world for any possible internal coherence or elegance. Seen from above, a lot of the maps look like languid classroom doodles. It's extremely easy to get lost while hunting for keys to unlock doors, and while the game is ostensibly set in an island fortress inhabited by dangerous cultists, one does not get island vibes: one gets 3D Maze vibes.
But the game does not suck. Its arsenal is wide-ranging and impressively bonkers. Its boring hitscan weapons—a pistol, two pistols and an absolutely pissweak MP40—are just there to tide you over until you find one of the many missile weapons including rocket launchers, heat seekers, and—my favourite—the flamewall, which one-shots every enemy in its path.
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