Only a fool would deny Doom 2's influence on video gaming.

User Rating: 9.1 | DOOM II PC
By sharier | Review Date:
This is the second 3D action shooter game I ever played on a PC. Back in January 1996, I just had my first PC and a cousin of mine brought the five-disk Doom 2 for me. Five disks! Decompress and its a 20 mb game. 20 mb!! I mean my hard disk was 1 gb then-- quite big during that time. A 20 mb game, to me, was mind blowing.
The game was indeed mind blowing. The creepy environment, the MIDI based signature Doom music and the hordes of monsters I killed for the first time took me by surprise. My earlier experience with Castle Wolfenstein dealt with killing the Nazis, and this game was a big leap forward.
The levels of this game was designed on a linear premise, you start from one point, kill the monsters, solve the exit puzzle and move into the next level. Each level has increasingly tougher enemies and harder puzzles. I can't exactly say how many nights I spent awake killing these alien monsters--but it extended for months. At one point, I had to start cheating as I could not cope up with the difficulty level. That was, in fact, the first time that I learnt that you can cheat a PC game. Considering that the game was developed in 1994, I must say that they did wonderful with the graphic works. But the lack of voice contributed to the lack of personality of the hero.
Overall, Doom 2 is an all time classic. Action gamers must experience this-- even for the heck of it.

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