History VideoGame / RiseOfTheTriad

* DeathByCameo: Tom Hall plays El Oscuro, the final boss of the game. Also, all of the digitized sprites are made from 360 degree photos of Apogee staff in costume, most of whom worked on the game.
** The remake's trailers promise that it follows the same logic, except now it's 3d models instead of sprites.

** ROTT is quite possibly the first FirstPersonShooter to have environmental objects that could be destroyed. One of the end-of-level bonuses is for destroying all the plants on a level.
** May be also applied to the [[DontExplainTheJoke thing]] Krist is riding on.

* DigitizedSprites: all of the actor sprites are scanned in images of apogee staff in costume and the NME was a model.

* EliteMooks: The heavily armored Triad Enforcers; they can attack with their machine guns and can toss grenades as well.

** ...even if you beat Oscuro (on bad ending, though), Mother Earth still will be destroyed.

** A sort of reverse of this trope, look at Ian Paul Freely (one of the playable characters), and think about his name for a minute.

** The remake apparently kept both of those in, as seen (and heard) in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWhsZAhfyqc the multiplayer footage]].

* GuiltBasedGaming: Try and quit, and it will throw up a picture of s syringe, cyanide tablet, electric chair, etc and say "Press Y to inject, swallow, throw the switch..."

* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Drunk Missile weapon fires five missiles at once which have heat-seeking capabilities. The results in a room full of bad guys can be [[LudicrousGibs quite messy]].

* StandardFPSGuns: 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 GodMode, and an alternate Dog Mode.

* SelfImposedChallenge: There's one, which makes the entire game [[TrialAndErrorGameplay Nintendo]] [[LuckBasedMission Bloody Impsossible]] (think of ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'') instead of just NintendoHard. All you need to do is: [[hottip:1:Go get [=WinROTT=]]] [[hottip:2:Look for ''config.rot'' file and set the ''SuperHard'' option to 1]] [[hottip:3:Open WinROTT itself and set 'TIMELIMIT 36000; MAXTIMELIMIT 36000; WARP (fully optional) [number of level you wish to play]' in the command line, without quotes. Time limit gives you a possibilty to have infinite lives during those 10 hours of play.]] [[hottip:4:Select the hardest difficulty. '''Never''' use savegames.]] The basic purpose of this challenge is to polish your missile-dodging skills SO thoroughly you couldn't even imagine. The catch is: every Lightning Guard wields one of the many lootable rocket launchers (or, considering there's no sprites of them carrying a [=RL=], rocket pistols). Should you only be [[IncrediblyLamePun unstrafeful]] for a split second, you'll be thrown back to square one. Considering Low Guards and Lightning Guards tend to change between each other randomly, the challenge will become ''purely'' luck-based. [[HaveANiceDeath Have fun dying!]]

** ''NME Mine'' from the same add-on takes it [[ExaggeratedTrope Up]] [[UpToEleven To Eleven]], making you fight against '''four''' '''[=NMiEs=]'''. [[BulletHell Just try to dodge all the stuff that flies at you.]]

* InkSuitActor: In the remake, the playable characters are modeled after real people:

A reboot, developed by Interceptor Entertainment (who also made ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D Reloaded''), will be released in early 2013. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhi-7lj7osI Trailer here.]]

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* BatterUp: The magical Excalibat weapon.

* TennisBoss... No. [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou Tennis Player]]. Let's face it: you '''had a lot of trouble''' while dodging ''your own'' projectiles that [[spoiler:Snake Oscuro]] mirrors?

* SelfImposedChallenge: There's one, which makes the entire game [[TrialAndErrorGameplay Nintendo]] [[LuckBasedMission Bloody Impsossible]] (think of ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'') instead of just NintendoHard. All you need to do is: [[hottip:1:Go get [=WinROTT=]]] [[hottip:2:Look for ''config.rot'' file and set the ''SuperHard'' option to 1]] [[hottip:3:Open WinROTT itself and set 'TIMELIMIT 36000; MAXTIMELIMIT 36000; WARP (fully optional) [number of level you wish to play]' in the command line, without quotes. Time limit gives you a possibilty to have infinite lives during those 10 hours of play.]] [[hottip:4:Select the hardest difficulty. '''Never''' use savegames.]] The basic purpose of this challenge is to polish your missile-dodging skills SO thoroughly you couldn't even imagine. The catch is: every Lightning Guard wields one of the many lootable rocket launchers (or, considering there's no sprites of them carrying a [=RL=], rocket pistols). Should you only be [[IncrediblyLamePun unstrafeful]] for a split second, you'll be thrown back to the drawing board. Considering Low Guards and Lightning Guards tend to change between each other randomly, the challenge will become ''purely'' luck-based. [[HaveANiceDeath Have fun dying!]]

* SelfImposedChallenge: There's one, which makes the entire game [[TrialAndErrorGameplay Nintendo]] [[LuckBasedMission Bloody Impsossible]] (think of ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'') instead of just NintendoHard. All you need to do is: [[hottip:1:Go get [=WinROTT=]]] [[hottip:2:Look for ''config.rot'' file and set the ''SuperHard'' option to 1]] [[hottip:3:Open WinROTT itself and set 'TIMELIMIT 36000; MAXTIMELIMIT 36000; WARP (fully optional) [number of level you wish to play]' in the command line, without quotes. Time limit gives you a possibilty to have infinite lives during those 10 hours of play.]] [[hottip:4:Select the hardest difficulty. '''Never''' use savegames.]] The basic purpose of this challenge is to polish your missile-dodging skills SO thoroughly you couldn't even imagine. The catch is: every Lightning Guard wields one of the many lootable rocket launchers (or, considering there's no sprites of them carrying a [=RL=], rocket pistols). Should you only be [[IncrediblyLamePun unstrafeful]] for a split of a second, you'll be thrown back to the drawing board. Considering Low Guards and Lightning Guards tend to change between each other randomly, the challenge will become ''purely'' luck-based. [[HaveANiceDeath Have fun dying!]]

* MalevolentArchitecture: Count how many kinds of booby traps there are in Rise of the Triad. Pushwalls, flaming pushwalls, shrooms in a jar, boulders, lava pits, shredders, up-'n-down shredders, ceiling shredders, flamethrowers, floor flamethrowers... Must be enough to become that [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou everything that is trying to kill you]].

* SelfImposedChallenge: There's one, which makes the entire game [[TrialAndErrorGameplay Nintendo]] [[LuckBasedMission Bloody Impsossible]] (think of ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'') instead of just NintendoHard. All you need to do is: [[hottip:1:Go get [=WinROTT=]]] [[hottip:2:Look for ''config.rot'' file and set the ''SuperHard'' option to 1]] [[hottip:3:Open WinROTT itself and set 'TIMELIMIT 36000; MAXTIMELIMIT 36000; WARP (fully optional) [number of level you wish to play]' in the command line, without quotes. Time limit gives you a possibilty to have infinite lives during those 10 hours of play.]] [[hottip:4:Select the hardest difficulty. '''Never''' use savegames.]] The basic purpose of this challenge is to polish your missile-dodging skills SO throughoutly you wouldn't even imagine. The catch is: every Lightning Guard wields one of the many lootable rocket launchers (or, considering there's no sprites of them carrying a [=RL=], rocket pistols). Should only you be [[IncrediblyLamePun unstrafeful]] for a split of a second, you'll be thrown back to the drawing board. Considering Low Guards and Lighting Guards tend to change between each other randomly, the challenge will become ''purely'' luck-based. [[HaveANiceDeath Have fun dying!]]

* DeathByCameo: Tom Hall plays El Oscuro, the final boss of the game. Also, all if the digitized sprites are made from 360 degree photos of Apogee staff in costume, most of which worked on the game.

* RefugeInAudacity: The game adamantly refuses to take itself seriously and 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 ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' was one of its selling points.

* GuideDangIt: The "Bonus Bonus" End-of-stage bonus, which can only be obtained on very few specific stages, including exactly ONE stage in The HUNT Begins. Getting it requires getting every other end-of-level bonus in the game (not just the ones "possible" in the level, EVERY one), which means the level must have a powerup, health item, pushwall, plant, firewall (one from an earlier level can be brought), life item, healing basin.... Oh, and it's impossible if you don't use Taradino Cassatt, as he is the only person capable of surviving his own flamewall hit (the girls have too little health, the other guys are too slow). The game was released in 1994. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XW-oVKLFf4 The only Bonus Bonus obtained on video to date went up in 2009.]]
* GuiltBasedGaming: Try and quit, and it will throw up a picture of s syringe, cyanide tablet, electric chair, ect and say "Press Y to inject, swallow, throw the switch..."

* ISurrenderSuckers: One class of Mook will drop to his knees and start begging for you not to shoot them (despite the gore, ''this'' is what really got the game a higher RSAC rating for violence than ''{{DOOM}}''). It's a trick, though; if you choose not to kill him, he'll play possum for a little while and then get back up and keep shooting at you.

* RefugeInAudacity: 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 ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' was one of its selling points.

* PuttingOnTheReich: Outfits worn by the enemies allude to Nazi Germany.

* AttackablePickup: The Priest Porridge, which can be turned into a more effective Priest Porridge Hot with a carefully aimed explosion.

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* Death by Cameo: Tom Hall plays El Oscuro the final boss of the game also all if the Digitized sprites are made from 360 photos of Apogee staff in costume most of witch worked on the game.

* LudicrousGibs: TropeNamer, and for good reason. Taken UpToEleven with Engine-Killing Gibs mode.

''Rise of the Triad: Dark War'' (abbreviated as ROTT) is a FirstPersonShooter video game that was first released on February 17, 1995 and developed by Apogee Software (formerly 3D Realms). The members of the development team involved referred to themselves as "The Developers of Incredible Power". The player can choose one of five different characters to play as, each bearing unique attributes such as height, speed, and endurance.

A team of special operatives, known as the H.U.N.T. (High-risk United Nations Task-force), is sent to San Nicolas Island to investigate deadly cult activity taking place in an ancient monastery. Their boat, the only way back, is destroyed by patrols, and the team soon learns that the cult plans to systematically destroy nearby Los Angeles. The operatives, now unable to return whence they came, are then left to fight their way into the monastery on the island, and eventually put a stop to the cult's activities.

During its early stages of development, ''Rise of the Triad'' was initially meant to serve as the sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 3D}}'', titled ''Wolfenstein 3D II: Rise of the Triad''. The presence of the [=MP40=] sub machinegun and the outfits worn by the enemies allude to Nazi Germany and imply the original aforementioned intent for the development of ROTT.

A reboot, developed by Interceptor Entertainment (who also made ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D Reloaded''), will be released in early 2013.

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!!This VideoGame contains examples of:

* EasyModeMockery
* PuttingOnTheReich
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''.

During its early stages of development, ''Rise of the Triad'' was initially meant to serve as the sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 3D}}'', titled ''Wolfenstein 3D II: Rise of the Triad''. The presence of the MP40 sub machinegun and the outfits worn by the enemies allude to Nazi Germany and imply the original aforementioned intent for the development of ROTT.

* PuttingOnTheReich

''Rise of the Triad: Dark War'' (abbreviated as ROTT) is a first-person shooter video game that was first released on February 17, 1995 and developed by Apogee Software (formerly 3D Realms). The members of the development team involved referred to themselves as "The Developers of Incredible Power". The player can choose one of five different characters to play as, each bearing unique attributes such as height, speed, and endurance.

During its early stages of development, ''Rise of the Triad'' was initially meant to serve as the sequel to ''Wolfenstein 3D'', titled ''Wolfenstein 3D II: Rise of the Triad''. The presence of the MP40 sub machinegun and the outfits worn by the enemies allude to Nazi Germany and imply the original aforementioned intent for the development of ROTT.