In theory, the suits got cheap content they could sell, the mappers got industry exposure from an official release, and the consumer got the most Doom levels in single title all officially vetted out of the endless deluge of (usually) crap maps off the Internet.
id bought the rights to an upcoming fan campaign from the venerable Team TNT, as well as commissioning brothers Dario and Milo Casali (former TNT members themselves) to bang out a second campaign for a total of 64 levels. The Master Levels release was the first attempt at this model, featuring 20 specially commissioned levels. Since id themselves weren't even interested in making another Doom, they decided to mine the modding community for potential gold. Really, the only group that really wasn't ready for the sun to set on new Doom releases was its publisher, GT Interactive. There were more Doom maps available than anyone could possibly play, or would even want to. While it was true that reliable, cheap Internet was still proliferating in the dial-up days of 1995, you were still covered - the terms of Doom's user license made it possible for companies like WizardWorks to package and sell thousands of fan maps on a CD in retail stores. The very aspect that made Doom II not just a great game, but a brilliant investment (endless, free, fan-made levels), was also contributing to over-saturation and the sheer pointlessness of another official Doom release. Duke 3D had already surpassed it, and even id themselves had moved on to true, polygon-based 3D engines with the development of Quake.Īnother issue was the Internet. The problem, of course, was that this was going on the third straight year of Doom mania - an eternity in gamer time - and the consensus then was that it was past time for Doom to retire.
The name itself was even something of a joke on release we knew Doom had about as much chance of staying dead as Jason did in the fourth film. In many ways, Final Doom never had a chance. Two-player options include cooperative and deathmatch modes.
Gameplay is the standard "find the weapons (chainsaw to BFG), find the power-ups (including the ever useful berserk and invulnerability), kill the aliens and get the keys to advance to the next level." All the evil demons of Doom II are back including fearsome foes like the rapid-fire missile spewing Revenant, the fireball blasting Mancubus, and the tougher-than-nails Cyberdemon. Blast your way through the 3D environment in yet another attempt to save the galaxy. Final Doom is a stand-alone Doom II clone that features two new 32-level episodes: Evilution and The Plutonia Experiment.
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