Reviews - TheGreatBigBoss

Sometime over a year ago, I decided to pick up Doom off of the Steam store, remembering my older brothers playing years ago when I was younger.Not long after grabbing the classic Doom collection from Steam, a great friend of mine mentioned this very mod, Brutal Doom, saying that if I was to get Doom, to check it out.

It was the greatest thing he had ever recommended to me. It did NOT dissapoint.

Brutal Doom grabs an old, legendary, classic game, and breaths new life into it by rebalancing enemies and weapons, cranking it's speed up to eleven and it's blood and gore up to 20 in a dark, twisted series that should have had it all to begin with. Non stop, adrenaline pumping action fueled by, with the right add-ons, thrashing metal tracks, lead spewing, gas powered, energy infused weapons, and even your bare fists, and hordes of ravenous enemies that won't stop until you die, or they all die, in an incredible show of ultra violence replete with grey matter, unidentifiable chunks of bloody flesh and gushing fountains of blood.

Brutal Doom features a combat system that, to me, NEVER ceases to amuse and thrill me. The infamous chainsaw used to eviscerate, decapitate and tear enemies to shreds, is back with a vengeance, your bare hands, and now feet, with a new Duke Nukem inspired kick, can now hit with the force of a small explosion or can be used to execute virtually any enemy in a variety of gruesome finishing moves. The pistol is replaced with an assault rifle that is useful all the way to the very end of the game and has an iron sight that you can aim down with the new alt fire option, unlike the pistol, the shotgun is EXTREMELY satisfying to use, seeing enemies being blown away, or in half, by a salvo of buckshot after hearing a bassy BOOM come straight out of the barrel, the Super Shotgun, with both of it's barrels, is logically, twice as satisfying, when you use both barrels to literally blow the top half of an enemy to smithereens, or use the alt fire to use only a single barrel at a time. The Gatling Gun is now a demon eradicating, lead spraying behemoth of a gun that can tear through crowds of enemies in seconds, especially with it's alt fire that, when used before firing, will gear up the gun to spit out even MORE bullets at an absolutely stupifying rate, simply destroying anything in front of you, provided you can control the recoil. The rocket launcher is still the handy explosive heavy weight it always was when in tight situations against large groups or strong enemies. The plasma rifle has more functionality this time around and a much more fitting skin to boot, no longer sporting a Toys R Us motif as it spews out powerful bolts of energy, and now with the alt fire option, an extremely powerful, and ammo slaying, flamethrower that will instantly kill anything that isn't a Baron of Hell or stronger. The BFG 9000, just as it was known to, clears out whole rooms of...well...anything. It's the ultimate weapon used to destroy anything unfortunate enough to meet the business end of it's giant pulsing ball of liquid DOOM that it launches. If you can find the special Nazi enemies in Doom, you can also grab an MP40 to slay demons with, along with the Revenants Flame Cannons or the Mancubus' flame thrower, if you gib them.

Tired of old Doom? New to classic gaming and want to play, but the slow, clunky controls are too unappealing to you? Do you just want to spice up Doom with a ghost pepper explosion of ultra violence and metal? Grab this mod and a source port to run it with. It will NOT dissapoint you, just as it hasn't dissapointed me. It is nigh flawless and SergeantMarkIV is the one and only person to have made it so.