DOOM/DOOM 2
    (Req. 386 DX, 4mb Ram, VGA. Sound card recommended.)

                 Reviewed by Michael Raven.

Doom, although rather outdated now, is still one of the best games
available for the PC. For anyone not aware of Doom, (ha!) it is a
first-person perspective shoot-em-up. Or, you see what your person
sees. You go around a number of levels, blasting apart enemies
from your own buddies, now on the enemy side, to huge spider
demons, firing chainguns at you. From 7 weapons, from a punch to a
'BFG 9000', a slow-firing gun that can kill almost anything with
one shot, you have a large selection of weaponry to kill with!
Huge amounts of player-created levels, sounds, graphics, patches
for new weapons & monsters, anything thought of for Doom, is
around somewhere.

With cheat modes allowing you to learn the basics, you can
sidestep, run, walk, and blast the enemy into nothing. And if that
gets boring, a quick link-up to a network, or even to just one
other computer will get you into a cooperative game, or a
deathmatch, where you fight to the death, only to be reincarnated
to fight again. With excellent playability, (if you die, it's your
mistake - not the game's!) marvellous graphics and sound, plus a
moodiness to scare you out of your wits when a cacodemon blasts
you apart from behind, it's an excellent game, with very little in
my estimation to recommend Quake over it. Of course, we can't run
Quake, but Doom will do until we can.

PLAYABILITY 95% Perfect!
LASTABILITY 87% Levels do get boring once played several times,
but there are several thousand unofficial ones in existence!
GRAPHICS 90% Great, particularly from a distance.
SOUND 94% Essential - without decent sound, you can be sneaked up
on!

OVERALL SCORE 91% With extra points on for it's inexpensiveness,
(Doom 2 can be purchased for around œ10-œ12 nowadays) I can't
recommend Doom enough. Get it!
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