Nitemare 3D (N3D) is a first-person shooter video game with a horror theme, released by Gray Design Associates in 1994 for MS-DOS and Windows 3.1x platforms. Play Nitemare 3D online!
Nitemare-3D is a horror-themed first-person shooter and a sequel to the adventure game Hugo III: Jungle of Doom. Hugo’s girlfriend Penelope is kidnapped by the nefarious Dr. Hamerstein, who intends to conduct terrifying experiments on her. Hugo has to explore the Doctor’s twisted mansion, travel through underground caverns, and eventually face the villain himself and rescue his sweetheart.
The gameplay mostly follows the conventions of Wolfenstein 3D, which the game also resembles visually. However, its gameplay is somewhat more slow-paced and includes heavier doses of puzzle-solving. There are four weapons in the game – plasma gun, magic wand, pistol and auto-repeat plasma gun; enemies may be vulnerable to a certain weapon and resistant against others. The levels are maze-like and contain secret areas. The first episode was released as shareware; two commercial episodes followed, for a total of thirty levels.
Rather than the fast-paced action of Wolfenstein 3D, Nitemare 3D has a slightly slower, more puzzle-oriented style of gameplay. The four weapons (plasma gun, magic wand, pistol, and auto-repeat plasma gun) have different usages—for example, magic blasts are especially useful against magical creatures such as witches, whereas robots are practically immune to them. Meanwhile, vampires take heavy damage from silver bullets, while shrugging off the effects of the plasma gun. Each level in the game has numerous secret panels, some of which were purely for bonuses, but others are essential to completing the level. To make this task easier, the player can collect magic eyes, which enable the player to activate a mini-map in the game’s HUD and give hints as to the locations of panels, and crystal balls for displaying the location of enemies.
In a similar vein to id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, the player character’s face is shown on the status bar and acts as a visual reflection of the player’s health, although instead of becoming bloodier, the skin wears away, leaving a skull when near death, and a darkened skull when dead – alike to the early Catacomb 3-D game.
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