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Hexen II is a first person shooter game developed by Raven Software, published by ID Software, and distributed by Activision in 1997.

It uses a modified Quake engine.

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+<b>Hexen II</b> is a [[Video game/FPS|first person shooter]] game developed by [[Raven Software]], published by [[ID Software]], and distributed by [[Activision]] in 1997.
-'''Charles Dickens''' ([[February 7]] [[1812]]-[[June 9]] [[1870]]), English writer of the Victorian age. Astonishingly popular in his day, his books have remained in print ever since.
+It uses a modified [[Quake computer game|Quake]] engine.
-Dickens was born into poverty.  His father was imprisoned for debt, and Charles spent time working in a boot-blacking factory in [[London]] when he was twelve. Resentment of his situation and the conditions people lived under was a major theme of his works.
-Dickens became a journalist, reporting parliamentary debate and travelling [[United Kingdom|Britain]] by stagecoach to report election campaigns. His journalism informed his first collection of pieces ''[[Sketches by Boz]]''. Most of his novels first appeared in serialized form. He made his name with ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''.
-Among his best known works are ''[[Great Expectations]]'', ''[[David Copperfield]]'', ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' and ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''.  ''David Copperfield'' may be his best novel; it is certainly his most autobiographical.
-Dickens' novels were, among other things, works of social commentary.  He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society.
-Dickens was fascinated by the theatre as an escape from the world, and theaters and theatrical people appear in ''Nicholas Nickleby''.
-Dickens loved to perform readings from his works and travelled widely in Britain and America.
-Dickens' writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery -- he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator" -- are wickedly funny. Some of his characters are grotesques; he loved the style of 18th century gothic romance though it had already become a bit of joke (see [[Jane Austen]]'s ''Northanger Abbey'' for example).
-Like several of his contemporaries, some of his works are marred by vehement [[Anti-semitism]]. For example, the character Fagin in Oliver Twist is an egregiously stereotypical Jew, with whole passages describing his hooked nose and greedy eyes.
-Much of Dickens's writing seems sentimental today, like the death of Little Nell in ''[[The Old Curiosity Shop]]''.
-But throughout his works, Dickens retained an empathy for the common man.
-Dickens died in 1870, and was buried in the Poet's Corner of [[Westminster Abbey]].  The inscription on his tomb reads: "He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world."