Magic based FPS?

[Lord Satori]

Anyone remember those old games Heretic and Hexen? Has anyone played any other magic type FPS? I'm so sick of seeing generic military/futuristic FPS yet the magical kind have remained untouched since those two games came out, iirc.

[Pretas]

Clive Barker's Undying has a strong focus on magic-based attacks and abilities.

The Catacomb Abyss is a magic/fantasy FPS that predates Wolfenstein 3D.

[TransatlanticFoe]

Exhumed?

Mystical Egyptian setting, though plenty of traditional weapons are involved it does have some magic elements.

[BPzeBanshee]

The Elder Scrolls.

[railslave]

Bioshock series ? i guess plasmids are some kind of mad sea slug alchemy

failing that , im partial to a bit of Hellgate london... perhaps the only person who is.

[moonblood]

Hellraid looks promising

http://hellraid.com/

[Acid King]

Undying is the bee's knees. There was another Clive Barker related FPS that had some magic thrown in but I don't think it turned out very well.

[drauch]

Hell yeah, love Heretic and Hexen. There is also the two Witchaven games. Very similar in regards to Heretic/Hexen, although they control a bit funky. I dig, though.

As Railslave kinda hinted at, System Shock/Bioshock series toys with it a bit, although in an obviously different light.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Painkiller and Nosferatu.

[NRS]

Undying is the bee's knees. There was another Clive Barker related FPS that had some magic thrown in but I don't think it turned out very well.

I think that was Jericho. I never played it myself, but I also remember it getting mixed reviews.

The original Hexen is still one of my favorite games to play co-op; and for something along those lines I would recommend Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, if you haven't tried it already.

Also, a little older and obscure, look into Requiem: Avenging Angel. Admittedly, from what I can remember, the game can play a little clumsy at times, but overall I found it enjoyable. The opening stage on that one... *shudder*

[Obiwanshinobi]

I guess Shadowrun (2007) qualifies, but I did not play it. The PC version was infamous for being Vista exclusive (the other one being Halo 2). I recall reading both got cracked a.s.a.p. to work on XP.
Another one I haven't played - Psychotoxic. Always looked interesting to me and I might give it a try soon.
Then there's Zeno Clash (didn't play). No idea if it deals with any supernatural themes, but I wouldn't expect to find any space troops there.
Legends of Might and Magic - not played.

[Daigohji]

Wheel of Time. http://youtu.be/NitUEW2u5UY

[Mischief Maker]

Daikatana.

How's THAT for a 666th post?

[drauch]

Daikatana.

How's THAT for a 666th post?

Referencing that game is positively evil.

[Ed Oscuro]

Daikatana has some good moments actually. It's funny to go back and read all the postmortems with complaints about the team trying to do too much - the content in that game still isn't as varied as your typical AAA title today! Still, lots of bad too, and it's definitely nobody's top 10 or even likely a top 100-500 game.

Legend wasn't with us long enough. Unreal 2 was overall not great, but Wheel of Time alone justifies their existence, and there's all their great early stuff.

Speaking of things, late '80s / early '90s SSI stuff seems kind of close to this - their RPGs and dungeon crawls aren't properly speaking FPSes (has anybody played DeathKeep or Slayer, though?) but they often do add a good bit of that same feeling. Tend to be gorgeously detailed too.

[BrianC]

Shadowcaster? It was one of Raven software's earlier games before Heretic and Hexen.

[Ed Oscuro]

Shadowcaster isn't very good.

[drauch]

Ooh, Ultima Underworld as well. Forgot about that.

[drauch]

I haven't looked much into those SSI titles until now.. Lookin' pretty groovy, I'll have to track some of those down.

[Imhotep]

Realms of the Haunting

more adventure than action, though. I really liked the game back in the day.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/roth/roth.htm