Retro Review - Nitemare 3D PC Game Review
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Nitemare 3D (N3D) is a first-person shooter PC game with a horror theme, released by Gray Design Associates in June 1994 on MS-DOS and Windows 3.1x platforms. It consisted of three episodes, the first of which was released as shareware. The full release came on two 3½" floppy disks and was accompanied by a guide to the game's thirty levels.
Graphics were very similar to those used in id Software's Wolfenstein 3D games, with perpendicular walls, and no texture on the floors or ceilings.
Rather than the fast-paced action of Wolfenstein, Nitemare 3D has a slightly slower, more puzzle-oriented style of play. The four different weapons (plasma gun, magic wand, pistol and auto-repeat plasma gun) have different usages—for example, magic blasts are especially useful against magical creatures such as witches, whereas robots are practically immune to them. Meanwhile, vampires take heavy damage from silver bullets, while shrugging off the effects of the plasma gun. Each level in the game has numerous secret panels, some of which were purely for bonuses, but others are essential to completing the level. To make this task easier, the player can collect magic eyes, which enable the player to activate a mini-map in the game's HUD and give hints as to the locations of panels, and crystal balls for displaying the location of enemies.
In a similar vein to the Wolfenstein 3D games, Doom, the player's face was shown on the status bar, and was a visual reflection of the player's health, although instead of becoming bloodier, the skin wore away, leaving a skull when near death, and a darkened skull when dead.