It also favours more the thinker than the brainless shooter. Combined with the character classes' special abilities, different armament and physical characteristics, the inventory helps each player create his own tactics, his own fighting style. Hexen II is a game that you keep coming to to perfect yourself in the art of war, to invent and to learn and to explore its world. Thanks to the tactics, the puzzles and the immersive setting, the single player mode is one of the best in the genre. It's not exactly the special effects that's great, but rather the desire of the game's authors to create a beautiful world which matters, I think.
Quake engine can give.
I would say that Hexen II has excellent graphics, but what really amazed me was the ambience and the degree of realism and the concept of beauty above spookiness which the game has. It's beauty and realism above all - one of the reasons which makes me go back again and again to the game. Well, both the soundtrack and the sounds are good, but they are a bit inferior to Hexen's. He also recorded new, original tracks, but I would like him to put more original stuff. The soundscape is impressive, but again, if there were more ambience sounds, the game would feel better.