Man, Doom II was the best. Not sure about the author's review comments but this was a 5 no question. For the 'story' people- I'm the other way- never cared about or care about any 'story' pretty much for any game and didn't miss this in Doom II at all. Story based games bore me and are the ones I never buy or play. Can see what u story people get into- more power to ya, when I come across 'em, I'm doing whatever I can to get past story screens to get to the action >
Doom II kept me and a buddy playing 14 hours straight the first day I bought it and broke a wingman joystick (my buddy did) the fire button, that first night. Doom II was creepy all around, and on that crusher level with the column's when you start out, with the sounds, etc, u just knew all the time that bad things were coming and going to happen- LOL, great stuff. For me as Doom II went on, the levels that got bigger and left outside of linear design were less interesting but the enemies spawing kept the game up.
For level 30, last level, u have to get to the top opposite the demon head, hit the switch to activate the lift, then get on the lift and just before u get to the top is where your inline to fire the rocket into the demon's brain. If your late, your shot will hit above the open hole, etc. Once you figured that out, u can finish level 30, but it takes 2 or three shots to do it.
Spent hours and hours playing Doom II and once the wad community could be reached via the inet, played hours and hours more. great stuff. The ports for Doom then gave more hours of playing w/hi res (to 320x240 gfx think it was) and Doom II for me is the best and original fps that ever was. Doom II was more creepy than Doom I, dunno, played Doom II first. Rating- 5.
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