Play order and is the full package all of them?

[soopytwist]

I have to confess these games passed me by when I started PC gaming in 1996, although I played a fair few older DOS and Win 95 titles at the time (like Doom) for some reason I totally missed out on these games. Is the full package of the four titles all of them? and what order should I play them? I thought there was a Heretic II but that doesn't appear to be in the collection.

[Emmanuelexe]

Order
Heretic > Hexen 1 > Hexen 2 > Hexen 2 portal of praevus expansion (not on steam/gog)
Apparently, Hereitc 2 is around Hexen 1 (after Heretic 1 and is a TPS game like Tomb Raider) but it wasn't release on steam gog either

Heretic is like DOOM gameplay with items and magic weapons (especially with the tome of power -black book-)
Hexen/Hexen 2 are about exploration, switchs to find/puzzles and some weapons, less than in heretic but there is different class.

[soopytwist]

Originally posted by Manhs:

Order
Heretic > Hexen 1 > Hexen 2 > Hexen 2 portal of praevus expansion (not on steam/gog)
Apparently, Hereitc 2 is around Hexen 1 (after Heretic 1 and is a TPS game like Tomb Raider) but it wasn't release on steam gog either

Heretic is like DOOM gameplay with items and magic weapons (especially with the tome of power -black book-)
Hexen/Hexen 2 are about exploration, switchs to find/puzzles and some weapons, less than in heretic but there is different class.

Right. So there are four games in the Steam collection: Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel and Hexen II. Where do these fit in your above list?

[ayelagin]

1. Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders (expanded original game);
   
2. Heretic 2 (in fact, this game is using another engine and its story is a conclusion for the Heretic storyline, not related to the Hexen one. It was released the latest of all, as far as I remember, but was not commercially successful);
   
3. Hexen: Beyond Heretic (aka original Hexen);
   
4. Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel (expansion pack for Hexen);
   
5. Hexen II;
   
6. Hexen II: Portal of Praevus (an interesting expansion pack for Hexen II - if you find it somewhere else, like myabandonware etc).