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Old School

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Since I've been reviewing all of the newer blood bathes I thought I'd go back and review this one as well. Doom and Doom II are just about where it all started. Everything that came after them had to live up to a standard. You can't get more classic then this. Although graphics and gameplay have improved with all the newer games, there's nothing like going a few rounds in an old standby. May Doom live forever :)

Once upon a time it was the best out there.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was once the best one could find in the computer world. Those days have passed, but this game makes a low cost find for those searching for a way to pass the time on lower end computers.

Doom is so much FUN!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Back in the day I played Doom & Doom II. It was a fun adventure to play it again. I think this type of game is better than most of the games that are out today.

This game 'gets it'

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Today's video game manufacturers need to take a long, hard look at games like Doom 2. This game gets it. Why? Because video games are about FUN and PLAYABILITY. It feels like work to play modern video games, with their seizure-causing graphics and phonebook-sized playing manuals. Sure, graphics are nice to have, BUT THEY ARE NOTHING without the fun and playablity factors. DOOM 2 is pure fun, no work, no headache-inducing thinking. JUST WALK AROUND AND BLAST TRULY HELL-SPAWNED CREATURES. Perfect example, the graphics in Doom 2 are nothing to write home about, but the bad-guy-creatures are perfectly thought-out and truly terrifying. Same goes with the enviroments / maps of Doom 2; the graphics aren't mind-blowing, but the mood and environment that are set truly make you feel as if you are in the depths of hell. Doom 2 is one of the all-time great games.

Difficulty playing Doom in XP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have owned this game for years and love it! But recently I bought a new computer with Windows XP and was severly dissapointed to find out that DOOM II doesn't not function completing in XP.

The biggest problem is the mouse. I doesn't work no matter what I do. I did all configurations at the beginning of the game, but with no luck. Then I read somewhere that the game doesn't recognize a USB mouse. So I bought an old school 6-pin mouse. But the mouse still doesn't work. It must be a problem with the XP ops system.

I've also emailed Id, the software maker, but have received no response. Does anyone have an answer to this enigma?

Classic Doom2 for DOS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Doom2 survives the test of time. Doom2 does require expertise with DOS and decaying DOS support after Windows 95 (DOS 7) makes this DOS version game more difficult to run properly, but for those who could run it, it is an excellent game still.

Still Doomed!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's probably ridiculous to bother reviewing DOOM 2. The game is slightly older than dirt, and compared to the FP shooters of today looks like a biplane sitting next to an F-15. But if such games have a lineage, it began back in the early-mid 1990s with the DOOM series, and the fact that this thing is still fun to play makes it worthy of a few words even if they do come 15 years too late.

The original DOOM I spent my college years playing instead of going to class had only one heavy-duty flaw: the assortment of monsters you peered at over the smoking barrels of your chaingun was on the limited side. That flaw was addressed with the sequel, which added numerous uglies to the mix, each more ill-tempered and heavily-armed than the last.

In case you've been living in a cave, DOOM's storyline operated under the premise that some dumb*ss scientists, mucking about on Mars' moon, opened a portal to hell which left their entire, rather vast complex of buildings crawling with bloodthirsty baddies. The sole survivor - you - has to fight his way out using any and all weapons available, from a chainsaw to a rocket launcher. DOOM 2 picks up where the previous left off, with the exception that hell has come to Earth and needs a good butt-kicking, the kind only you and your trusty shotgun can supply.

DOOM 2 featured several upgrades on the original. First was the afformentioned addition of various demons to the enemy roster, including the Revenant, a half-skelleton, half-cyborg monster assembled from the body parts of dead demons and human soldiers, firing you-seeking missles when it isn't using its fists; the Manucbus, a disgusting tub of guts with flame throwers instead of hands, the Arch-Vile, a boss-demon than can ressurect the dead and cast Hiroshima-like spells, and the Commando Sergeant, an ugly customer packing a chaingun. In addition, the Spider Mastermind from the original DOOM has apparently littered several dozens of Arachnotrons, which pack rapid-fire plasma cannons and are extremely grouchy. Secondly, a handy new weapon was added to your arsenal - a double-barreled, sawed-off shotgun which annihilates just about anything stupid enough to snuggle up to you. Third, the boards are much more entertaining, especially those set in earth cities, which give you the opportunity to do some real Stalingrad-type street fighting, not to mention the pleasure of blasting an Imp off a 20-story building. Of course, all of the DOOM series' flaws are still here too - the inability to jump, the lack of a reliable auto-aiming feature, and serious glitches with the map software. But really, who cares? The point is that DOOM 2, while almost entirely plotless (unless "get keys, kill everything in your path, repeat" counts as a plot) was terrific fun when it came out, 1,000 years ago, and it's still fun now. Furthermore, it's so low-tech you can sneak it to work and play it directly off the disk drive of your office PC without having to install it, thus avoiding detection from your company's IT nerd-police, and spend the day mowing down Imps without mercy when you should be plugging numbers into that Excel spreadsheet. Who could ask for more?

It's not for children

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun if you like shooters but it is very violent and gory so it's not for kids. I believe that there is a bit too many "decorations" (ex. dead guys and severed limbs).
The graphics are good, and the animation is acceptable. But once you play a few of the missions it becomes boring. If you like to kill it's the right game for you. You may find yourself stranded in one area of the map if you don't find the keycard. Sometimes it's just too complicated for a 3d shooter.
Overall it's okay.

Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun, challenging, difficult, creepy, and the only game I've ever liked, but gets boring real easily unless you use cheats. The graphics are well done and the game has well arcitecture and animated characters. The music is kewl, and the sound is OK. Alright, multiplayer is a blast, especially in coop. The demons, and mayhem is just intensifyingly addicting. I love this game. It's cool!

Doom 2 Forever. and Ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has changed the world. Before Doom 2 obviously was Doom. The game has introduced the FPS, or first person shooter. I myself have the doom collectors edition. It includes doom, doom 2, and Final Doom(TNT and the plutonia Experiment). Doom, however, is very old(over 10!) and doom 2 is turning 10 this year. Well, anyway, before my closing comment, i'd like to say this game is robably going to last for 10 more years(including Doom 3) until we are all writing on how legendary Doom 3 was and how it is all old. Aging is never a problem with games, its just if they are updated or not. Doom and Doom 2 were updated, with WADs, as you can create your own levels, episodes, and even games(such as final doom). My closing statement is:

I seem to be having a problem with my Doom Collectors Edition. The way the weapon is positioned in the game isnt right. It seems to have sunk lower, and if i get rid of the bottom dashboard, then it returns to the position it should of been while i had the dashboard up. I dont know how to position the screen.

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