History VideoGame / RiseOfTheTriad

* GunsAkimbo: Or, as they say, ''John Woo style''.

During [=3D=] Realms' "Realms Deep" event in September 2020, a remastered source port of the original ''ROTT'' by [=3D=] Realms and Destructive Creations was announced for a 2021 release on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

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

* LudicrousGibs: Look at the page image. As mentioned above, this game is the TropeNamer, and for good reason. Taken UpToEleven with Engine-Killing Gibs mode.

%%* KillItWithFire: Or a flamewall.

** 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 (but not in the remake) and capable of firing blasts of energy from your bare hands that can disintegrate everything in the room. God Mode makes everything so easy that your character will continuously yawn throughout combat.

* UnwinnableByMistake: "Getting the Drop" in the ''Extreme'' expansion, which is [[ThatOneLevel an awful level to begin with]], is nearly impossible to complete with any character other than Thi Barrett - there's a puzzle at the end of the level that involves making a maze out of pillars and running across them to get to the end of the level. Problem is, Barrett is the only character that can actually make it across without falling in-between - any other character simply falls through the pillars, making it impossible to finish the level. It's thankfully possible to bypass it by using the Excalibat to RocketJump, but the Excalibat is easy to pass up, and the level prior does a good job of making you use up as much of the ammo as possible. %%invoked

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[[caption-width-right:320:RSAC Advisory: Contains wanton and gratuitous violence.]]

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A reboot, developed by Interceptor Entertainment (who also made ''VideoGame/{{Duke Nukem 3D}} Reloaded''), was released July 31st, 2013. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhi-7lj7osI Trailer here.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWhsZAhfyqc Multiplayer footage showcasing the weapons, levels and soundtrack here]]. Preorders for the new game were rewarded with the Apogee Throwback bundle, which included the original Rise of the Triad titles, as well as both of the ''VideoGame/BlakeStone'' titles.

* FunWithAcronyms: You are the member of H.U.N.T., after all...
** The '''EKG''' (Engine Killing Gibs) mode, which cranks the gore UpToEleven.
** Also NME. Pronounce it out loud.

* HitScan: The bullet weapons.

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.)

* HeavilyArmoredMook: Has one of the earliest FPS examples, in the form of a rotund soldier armed with a heavy machine gun who can soak several dozen bullets before dropping. In the remake he was turned into a single character, a MiniBoss named Big John.

* {{Kill It With Fire}}bomb - or a flamewall.

** In addition, when a boss dies, [[MadeOfExplodium he blows up]] ({{justified|Trope}} 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 GameOver. [[GameBreaker Even with maxed out lives]].

* {{EldritchAbomination}} [[spoiler: El Oscuro's]] true form, which is basically a snake made out of giant humanoid heads

Unfortunately for Apogee, ''Rise of the Triad'' hit the streets over a year after Id Software (who formerly used Apogee as a publisher) had rewritten the PC gaming rulebook with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. Originally pitched as a sequel to ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', ''ROTT'' was built using its GameEngine 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 dynamic lighting effects, ''ROTT'' looked dated. However, despite being graphically behind the times, it was still a damn fun game.

* HolidayMode: For Christmas, has a notable 'portrayal', with [[AntiChristmasCarol awesome music replacement.]] [[EarWorm Well, awesome as usual, actually.]]

* SheatheYourSword: The first form of [[spoiler:El Oscuro]]. Attacking him causes him to eat your missiles and regain energy. You're supposed to run away and let him wear himself out and revert to his snake form, which you chase down and kill. Except that every other challenge in this game essentially boiled down to [[Film/WildWildWest shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more, and then when everyone's dead, try to ask a question or two]], which made this [[GuideDangIt a bit counterintuitive]].

* AltumVidetur: El Oscuro in the original spat out angry, nonsensical Latin at you ("eat your veggies", among them).