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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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