Reviews - Devianteist

A truly well made mod, and one of the best I've come across. It has enhanced my DOOM experience to a level I didn't think would have actually been reality, and makes playing through the original games so much more fun now that I have my beloved DOOM 3 weapons at my side!

While this mod certainly brings itself to the forefront of impressive endeavours, it is not the be all, end all mod of DOOM, or what have you. Where some say this is how DOOM was meant to be, let us remember DOOM 3, and the direction id Software took with it. DOOM was meant to be scary, not ludicrously gory and insane.

What Brutal DOOM is, is a testament of what DOOM can become when one man (with a lot of help, whether they admit it or not) is resolute enough to achieve a goal to create a modification for a 20 year old game that would stand out in the world; and stand out it has, both positively, and negatively. While there are many bugs that one will run across, that is simply due to limitations or incompatibilities within the game, and the sourceports used to play it.

Where this mod brings impressive gameplay, it also brings with it a lot of pointless and pitiful drama, from both it's advocates (the unreasonable ones), and it's adversaries (and some are just as bad). The mod's creator is not one who has done much to falter this conflict, but is/was something of a center piece in some of it.

As I finish this review, I will say that there are many more mods for DOOM and DOOM II out there, and some may even be better than Brutal DOOM, dare I say. I encourage fans of this mod to look for others to add to their collection alongside BD, and expand their horizons beyond the blood-soaked halls they leave in their wake.