History VideoGame / Hacx

Regardless, work began on a sequel titled "''Hacx 2 3D''", which started development on the ''id Tech 2'' UsefulNotes/GameEngine, but then saw desperate shifts to the ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' and ''[=Genesis3D=]'' engines before the inability to find a publisher put both the project and Banjo Software itself to rest.

The development of the game was notably rushed with the intent of seeing a release before id Software's ''[[VideoGame/QuakeI Quake]]''. The result was an ObviousBeta of varying quality throughout its 21 levels (ranging from abysmal to above average by ''Doom'' mapping standards), with the final map [[spoiler: ending on a ''Knee Deep in the Dead''-style CliffHanger]]. The game still missed the deadline and as a result, ended up selling poorly - being overshadowed by ''Quake'''s far more advanced 3D engine.

* ToBeContinued: HacX 1.1 ended with this message during the intermission.

* EasyLevelTrick: [=MAP16=] ("Protean Cybex") can be completed in a split-second. The exit switch is hidden in the floor, and is supposed to rise out after you trigger four switches throughout the level. However, the pseudo-3D ''Doom'' engine does not take the Z dimension into account when deciding whether a switch is in the player's reach, so if you simply face towards where the switch is and press the Use key, the level ends.

Regardless, work began on a sequel titled "''Hacx 2 3D''", which started development on the ''id Tech 2'' GameEngine, but then saw desperate shifts to the ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' and ''[=Genesis3D=]'' engines before the inability to find a publisher put both the project and Banjo Software itself to rest.

* GenisuBruiser: Danny Evanger is both a master hacker and a skilled soldier.

''Hacx: Twitch 'n' Kill'' is a {{cyberpunk}}-themed FirstPersonShooter, initially released by Banjo Software in 1997 as a commercial [[GameMod Total Conversion]] for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} II''.

* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: According to the plot, the protagonist Danny Evanger becomes the badass he is through exercising while incarcerated.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen
** ''Hacx'' was originally going to have 32 levels, but it was cut down due to time constraints.
** ''Hacx 2 3D''. Nostromo's [[http://drnostromo.com/hacxOld/Hacx2.html history page]] about this project is an outright embodiment of this trope in web-page form.

** ''So they send you packing… to the federal pen. For the rest of your natural life. No computer, no gear, nothing. Total drag. Cement and bars, and the other guys inside aren't exactly your average beefcakes. They catch a glance at your cyber-jockey derrière and get a wet gleam in their eye. So what you do for the next twelve months is hit the weight room--hard and fast! You pump iron like your life depended on it--and it does. You learn to sleep with one eye open. Punching the heavy bag becomes your breakfast; tae-kwon-do your lunch, and for dinner… well, you gotta eat sometime. And practice? Plenty. 'Cause these boys got a gleam in their eyes that won't go away. But how you've changed! Over once scarecrow arms, muscles wrap tight and heavy, and you've got a fu-kick that makes the boys call you "Sir". Before you were just an average pencil-necked geek, now you could grace the front of Muscle and Guns Magazine. And just in time, too.''

* EasyLevelSkip: MAP16 ("Protean Cybex") can be completed in a split-second. The exit switch is hidden in the floor, and is supposed to rise out after you trigger four switches throughout the level. However, the pseudo-3D ''Doom'' engine does not take the Z dimension into account when deciding whether a switch is in the player's reach, so if you simply face towards where the switch is and press the Use key, the level ends.

[[http://drnostromo.com/hacx/download.html You can download it here]]