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[[File:rottGameOver.jpg|frame|RSAC Advisory: Contains wanton and gratuitous violence.]]
''[[Rise of the Triad]]'' is a [[First-Person Shooter]] released by Apogee Software in 1994. There's a story, involving a United Nations special operations team sent to investigate suspicious cult activity on a remote island, but you wouldn't know it unless you read the manual. Like most early [[FPS]]'s, it's all about shooting anything that moves and picking up anything that doesn't. ''Rise of the Triad'' introduced a number of gameplay innovations, many of which have become common in the [[FPS]] genre: elevated platforms, jumping, sneaky enemies that play dead and steal your weapons, areas full of poison gas, a plethora of different missile weapons, adjustable violence levels with a password lockout, breakable windows, bullet damage to walls, selectable player characters with varying abilities, and extensive multi-player support.▼
▲''Rise of the Triad'' is a [[First-Person Shooter]] released by Apogee Software in 1994. There's a story, involving a United Nations special operations team sent to investigate suspicious cult activity on a remote island, but you wouldn't know it unless you read the manual. Like most early [[FPS]]'s, it's all about shooting anything that moves and picking up anything that doesn't. ''Rise of the Triad'' introduced a number of gameplay innovations, many of which have become common in the [[FPS]] genre: elevated platforms, jumping, sneaky enemies that play dead and steal your weapons, areas full of poison gas, a plethora of different missile weapons, adjustable violence levels with a password lockout, breakable windows, bullet damage to walls, selectable player characters with varying abilities, and extensive multi-player support.
In an era where "online gaming" meant two people playing head-to-head over a direct modem link, ''Rise of the Triad'' offered 11-way multi-player games over a local area network (a dedicated server is required for more than eight players). The game supports a number of multi-player variants, including basic deathmatch, several variations of "tag", a race to collect the most treasure in the least amount of time, and "Capture the Triad": the first implementation of [[Capture the Flag]] in a first person shooter. Each mode offered a number of tunable options to further customize gameplay. The game didn't support this newfangled Internet thing, just Novell NetWare, so the only way most people could enjoy an 11-player fragfest was to take over an office or academic computer lab after hours.
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Apogee/3D Realms have since released the source code to the game and there is at least one enhanced Win32 port of the game available. You will need the original data files (which remain copyrighted) to play it though (the data files for the shareware version are still available for free).
▲=== Looks like the only way out is in. ===
* [[Altum Videtur]]: El Oscuro in the original spat out angry, nonsensical Latin at you ("eat your veggies", among them).
* [[Attackable Pickup]]: The Priest Porridge, which can be turned into a more effective Priest Porridge Hot with a carefully aimed explosion.
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** There are '''G'''ravitational '''A'''nomaly '''D'''isks, which are floating platforms. Some elevate up and down, turning them into '''E'''levator '''G'''ravitational '''A'''nomaly '''D'''isks.
** The remake affixes a backronym to the Drunk Missile: '''D'''estructive '''R'''andomly '''U'''nguided '''N'''ullification '''K'''it
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: This is clearly ''not'' a game for kids, but ironically, one well-known hidden joke is kind of... juvenile. Playable character Ian Paul Freeley. Yeah, "I. P. Freely" a joke [[The Simpsons|Bart Simpson famously used when making a crank call to Moe's.]] Pretty childish there.
* [[God Mode]]: Lampshaded. Accessible through an in-game powerup as well as the usual cheat code, [[God Mode]] doesn't just make you invincible, it also makes you ten feet tall and capable of firing blasts of energy from your bare hands that can disintegrate everything in the room with your character making [[Most Annoying Sound|godlike bellowing noises]] all the while. There's also a Dog Mode that makes you invincible, two feet tall, and capable of firing a deadly supersonic bark.
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: You can kill any non-boss character this way, including ''other players''.
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* [[Nintendo Hard]]: 84% of all levels in the original ''Rise of the Triad'' and 98% in ''Extreme Rise of the Triad''.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: [[Kamehame Hadoken|Fireball-shooting]] zombie death cultist monks that speak in [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] and a robot boss that engages in [[Macross Missile Massacre|Macross Missile Massacres]].
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Mooks will occasionally fall to their knees and plead for their lives. It would be pretty cruel to shoot them then, but if you don't, then after a few seconds, they'll get up and resume their attack, possibly while your back is turned to them.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]:
** If you fail to destroy all the larvae in the final level before killing the boss, you'll get an alternate ending where the world is destroyed, and you're required to start the level over again.
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