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''[[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
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
▲''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 multiplayer 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 multiplayer games over a local area network (a dedicated server is required for more than eight players.) The game supports a number of multiplayer 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.
The adjustable violence setting allows the player to select from four levels of gore: the self-explanatory None, small spurts of blood on Some, big damage causing enemies to turn into a little pile of mush on A Lot, and the default setting of Excessive, which can occasionally result in [[Ludicrous Gibs]]. An "engine killing gibs" cheat existed that, when enabled, would caused exploded enemies to spew hundreds of pounds of gibs that would fly across the room.
Interestingly, the shareware and "registered" (full retail) releases of the game have no single-player levels in common (the retail version did include the
Unfortunately for Apogee, ''Rise of the Triad'' hit the streets two weeks after id Software (who once used Apogee as a publisher) rewrote the PC gaming rulebook with the release of ''[[Doom]]''. ''ROTT'' was based on an evolution of the ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]'' game engine and, like its progenitor, only supported walls laid out on a square grid at 90-degree angles to each other. Although staircases and bridges could be built using floating platforms (and players could go both under and over a bridge, which you could not do in ''Doom''), the floor and ceiling heights throughout each level were fixed. Jumping was only possible through the use of fixed jump-pads. Next to Doom, which featured walls at any angle, variable floor and ceiling heights, and ambient lighting effects, ''ROTT'' looked dated. However, despite being graphically behind the times, it was still a damn fun game.▼
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.)▼
▲Unfortunately for Apogee, ''Rise of the Triad'' hit the streets two weeks after id Software (who once used Apogee as a publisher) rewrote the PC gaming rulebook with the release of ''[[Doom]]''. ''
▲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
=== 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.
* [[Batter Up]]: The magical Excalibat weapon.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
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** A sound clip that was cut from the game (you can find it on the game CD or the downloadable
* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: Even the violence isn't taken very seriously - look closely when you blow up an enemy soldier and you can see his severed hand fly by ''wagging its middle finger at you''.▼
* [[Bloody Hilarious]]:
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** Also, the smiley face on the charred skeletons of baddies toasted by the Flamewall weapon.
* [[Cool Chair]]: Sebastian Krist. His chair shoots ''rockets''. In the remake, it also flies and has an energy shield.
* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]:
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** ''NME Mine'' from the same add-on takes it [[Exaggerated Trope|Up]] [[Up to Eleven|To Eleven]], making you fight against '''four''' '''NMiEs'''. [[Bullet Hell|Just try to dodge all the stuff that flies at you
▲* [[Die Chair Die]]: ROTT is quite possibly the first [[First-Person Shooter]] to have environmental objects that could be destroyed. One of the end-of-level bonuses is for destroying all the plants on a level.
▲** Although you only need to defeat one to finish the level, and this applies to any other custom level with multiple bosses.
▲** ''NME Mine'' from the same add-on takes it [[Exaggerated Trope|Up]] [[Up to Eleven|To Eleven]], making you fight against '''four''' '''NMiEs'''. [[Bullet Hell|Just try to dodge all the stuff that flies at you.]]
* [[Expansion Pack]]: ''Extreme [[Rise of the Triad]]'', with 42 new [[Nintendo Hard]] levels exploiting various engine tricks to add new features like teleporters and [[Macross Missile Massacre|"Ballistitowers"]].
* [[Fun
** The '''EKG''' (Engine Killing Gibs) mode, which cranks the gore [[Up to Eleven]].
** Also NME. Pronounce it out loud.
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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.
* [[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.▼
** The remake affixes a backronym to the Drunk Missile: '''D'''estructive '''R'''andomly '''U'''nguided '''N'''ullification '''K'''it
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: You can kill any non-boss character this way, including ''other players.''▼
* [[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.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Or, as they say, ''John Woo style''.
* [[Holiday Mode]]: For Christmas, has a notable 'portrayal', with [[Anti Christmas Carol|awesome music replacement
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: There are three lists of four names used by the game (only one of which is present in the shareware version) and which list is used is randomly selected every time the difficulty selection screen shows up.
* [[Jump Physics]]: You ''literally'' walk in the air.
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* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: Pretty rare example for a first-person shooter game... With the most cheesy sound ever, ''YUUUU SUUUKKKK!'' included.
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: [[Interface Screw|SHROOMS MODE!!!]]
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: 84% of all levels in the original
* [[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.▼
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]:
** In addition, when a boss dies, [[Made of Explodium|he blows up]] ([[Justified Trope|justified]] because bullet weapons and melee attacks don't do anything - you have to use missiles, magic, or some combination of the two). If you happen to die in the explosion, you get a [[Game Over]]. [[Game Breaker|Even with maxed out lives]] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2yentsL84#t=7m01s this guy] had 63). ▼
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* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: [[Fun With Acronyms|Engine Killing Gibs]] mode causes enemies killed with missiles to spew gallons of blood in all directions.▼
▲** In addition, when a boss dies, [[Made of Explodium|he blows up]] ([[Justified Trope|justified]] because bullet weapons and melee attacks don't do anything
* [[Punny Name]]: "Taradino Cassat", for Spanish speakers, if you consider that ''tarado'' is a slang word for ''idiot'' and even ''retard''. ▼
▲* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: [[Fun
** '''I'''an '''P'''aul '''Freeley''' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs his own Lampshade]] in the ending wherein he complains about how he saved the damn world, but people only care about making fun of his name.▼
* [[Punny Name]]:
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▲** '''I'''an '''P'''aul '''Freeley''' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs his own Lampshade]] in the ending wherein he complains about how he saved the damn world, but people only care about making fun of his name. Making Freeley's situation even worse, according to the manual he wrote a novel called ''The Yellow River''.
** Dog Mode, which is a pun on, well, [[God Mode]].
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The storyline and setting make no sense, but it's too cool for you to care, and the fact that the RSAC rating system considered it more violent than ''[[Doom]]'' was one of its selling points.
* [[Rocket Jump]]: The [[Trope Maker]]. The first game that allowed you both to look up and down ''and'' fire a rocket that won't instantly destroy you utterly.
* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: There's one, which makes the entire game [[Trial and Error Gameplay|Nintendo]] [[Luck
* [[Shareware]]: The original game has this and the commercial, full version. The shareware has different levels from the full game. Its title is ''Rise of the Triad: The HUNT Begins'' and the full version is named ''Rise of the Triad: The Dark War''.
* [[Shout
* [[Standard FPS Guns]]: Subverted. You've got your pistol and machine gun, but from there the game offers several rocket launchers with different functions, a magical baseball bat, a literal [[God Mode]], and an alternate Dog Mode.
* [[Tennis Boss]]: ...
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: According to the game's opening, it takes place "one year in the future
▲* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: According to the game's opening, it takes place "one year in the future".
* [[The Walls Are Closing In]]: In early versions, [[Deadly Walls|even touching an approaching wall causes instant death]]. While walls usually were independent movers, there are some places where sections of walls move back and forth to crush the player and one level where it appears the walls are closing in when you hit a touchplate but stop at the last second.
▲* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] Natrually.
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