Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition

A fun boomer shooter pushing the Wolfenstein engine beyond its limits. The amount of traps and secrets are crazy, and in a way the game is more of a dungeoncrawler with occasional shooting sections. This does get exhausting for me, but still doesnt ruin the game for me. I will say tough it gets repetitive after some time, even tough I appretiate the devs making very creative (and often kinda crazy) level designs, like a old school sadistic ttrpg Dungeon Master. I dont think the amount of traps, wild powerups (and powerdowns) have ever been quite recrated and for its time it must of been wild (I didnt play it back then I was playing Doom and others). Still overall it is a unique boomershooter of the time that took Wolfenstein and kicked it up a notch with secrets, traps, powerups/down etc. The enemy variety isnt very insteresting, also the game is pretty over the top, but you can only carry limited weapons? People who dont like key hunting, mazelike levels or oldschool fps games i general steer away. For fans of the genre I recommend it and this version is the best version to play (Unless you are a purist, the vanilla original is also avalible) with the best resolution, controls, quality of life features, all expansions (and a brand new one as well) working steam multiplayer and workshop+level editor buildt in. ROTT Extreme is very hard and borderline insane but mostly dooable until you get to the final boss stages. Those are unbalance to a degree that are honestly unplayable, but I am sure there are some crazy ♥♥♥♥♥ out there that have mastered those levels who are true gaming legends. I am not one of those. They do warn you ahead of time that this expansion is very hard ahead of time so its made for those players that have mastered the vanilla game on the hardest levels and found all secrets. I could beat most levels except the El Oscuro levels, where I was forced to cheat. For ROTT fans and for Classic Boomer Shooter fans I do recommend this.

One of the best boomer shooters of its day. Good to see this game get an updated version for modern systems. Grab this if you're a fan of FPS games in the 90s. Grab the original Shadow Warrior while you are at it. You'll be happy you did.