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Necrodome

Windows - 1996

Necrodome is an excellent futuristic sport game that is ranks among Raven Software’s most underrated titles.

The description on the game’s official page says it all about what makes the game original, and how it influences Raven’s future games: "Necrodome puts players into a heavily armored vehicle, fighting in tournaments in cities across a near-future United States. Originally slated to be a sequel to CyClones, Necrodome took on new life as a wholly original game concept with a brand new in-house game engine capable of handling multiple wall angles, slopes, bridges and buildings with multiple floors.

Necrodome pioneered a unique cooperative multiplayer experience that allowed players to work together in combat with one player serving as the driver while the other fired the vehicle's weapons from the turret. This type of gameplay, perhaps the first truly cooperative game mode in an action game, has never been replicated.

Originally slated as a DOS title, Necrodome paved the way for Raven Software's first foray into the world of Windows game development. It also gave our developers the opportunity to learn and continue molding its in-house technology efforts and experience with 3D engines and networking for Raven Software's next 3D technology, the Vampire engine, used in MageSlayer and Take No Prisoners."

Highly recommended, especially for its unique co-op multiplayer gameplay. If you like DOOM, Rocket Jockey, or both, you will enjoy Necrodome, a game in which Raven once again proved themselves master of the action/FPS genre. Two thumbs up!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Zenon 08 Nov. 2024

Great to play again, cannnot wait to solve SaltLake arena :D

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npocmaka 14 Jul. 2023

THe rendering distance in the menu is limited but you can edit the necto.cfg file and set higher version. I've set

RENDERDIST and FLATSHADEDIST to 100 in order to see "better" in the game. Though the game gets a little bit more unstable.

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Leviathan1990 24 Jun. 2023

The game will be available on steam very very soon! just open steam store and search for it

0
You people are blind 06 Feb. 2023

Scroll down a bit further, the download is still on this page, under "Game Extras".

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bluebrad 04 May. 2022

its here https://archive.org/details/score35cd

0
JustNeedIt 02 May. 2022

For God's sake, where can I find Necrodome to download/buy/steal/hijack or whatever...I NEED IT!

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admin 08 Jun. 2021
Admin

The should be rereleased by Forthright Entertainment soon enough

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ALBERTO 07 Jun. 2021

Was the Download removed due to copyright?

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Gerhalt 13 May. 2019

Glad to see some personal screenshots taken directly during the private game session. Why? Because many other retrogame resources seem to have borrowed snapshots from mobygames, and those exact shots were probably made by some dummy since he even forgot to turn the texturing on! That basically means those screenies make the actual game look worse than it really does (as seen on the nearby pics) since virtually all polies are flat-shaded. Anyway, Necrodome's got that extremely addictive gameplay as well as pretty picture, considering this 1's from 1996 when 32bit games used to be almost non-existent, hell even original Quake was still 4 DOS only!
In my opinion this game's totally underrated & unfairly forgotten, unlike, say, MageSlayer or TNP that use the same Vampire engine. Anyway, I still own it & love it more than those titles mentioned.

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Luigi 10 Jun. 2018

i can't play it well...
the response time is tooo long!!
anny idea how can i fix it?

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Rick the Tick 18 Apr. 2018

Great game. You guys should check out Quarantine too if you like driving/FPS hybrids.

0
John Adams 16 Apr. 2018

Fantastic shooting and driving game
where the peoples you shoot to win Explode in front of you as said a heavily armored vehicle, fighting in tournaments in cities across a near-future United States. Originally
well made game hard to play in some parts but great fun i just love this game works with windows 7

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Extras

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Installed game files
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