Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition preserves an important, goofy slice of gaming history
“You ate some priest porridge.” That’s the message I see whenever I slide over a bowl of nondescript red goo in Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition, regaining some vital bars of health in its strange world of impossible spaces, springboards, and eyeball gibs.
Unlike the complete rebuild that developerNightdive did for System Shock, the Ludicrous Edition is a straightforward port of the original Rise of the Triad: Dark War, which launched as a shareware title in 1994 before seeing an official launch the following year. It’s a profoundly weird game, and I’m thrilled to see it brought back to life in this edition because it’s such an odd piece of gaming history.
Ian Boudreau2K2023-07-27