Reviews - mrthejoshmon

The Aliens TC for Ultimate Doom is a nostalgia trip and good fun at the same time.
I believe it was the first Doom TC made? (Correct me if I am wrong)
The first map is the docking areas with no combat (As you re tasked with finding out what happened here), the next map is then you finding the colonists and the aliens...
The rest carries out like you would expect with you trying to escape the infested base and killing the queen in the process.
There is some unique things done (Such as you having to close the doors to shut the aliens out rather than fight the horde).
A very recommendable experience.

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Brutal Doom is an over the top (and OVERRATED) mod for the classic DOS Doom games.
The weapon sprites look nice and smooth... That is where the positives end I am afraid.
The sounds within this mod are terrible (excluding voice acting), the weapons sound like water guns compared to the sounds of the enemies screams of pain (Seriously are you into sadism and **** bro?), the screaming blasts over every other sound going off, it is pure ear hell!
The balancing of the mod is absolutely shagged: More than 10 imps and your *** is on Ebay, Cyberdemons are pussies that can be absolutely crushed in ten seconds (They are literally giant glass windows), if you bump into a baron of hell in a corridor you are brown bread, if you see an arachnotron you will be loading game soon (Dead simple is near impossible on UV), mancubus shots annihilate everything, all you will ever need is the shotgun, the chaingun is wank (And doesn't even penetrate 1 imp making it useless) and the list goes on.
Gameplay: It is basically CoD: Hell Warfare with added gore porn and sadism in the mix, it ruins megawads and cripples original Doom gameplay.
Graphics: the enemy sprites look absolutely hideous, seriously you can see color changes and cut edges of the things (you know, like an unfinished product?)
And then we have the author and his fantards (Not all Brutal Doom fans mind you, just rabid SGT Mark loverboys):
The author is, and always was, a complete and utter egotistical little self obsessed, misogynistic, rascist, suicide endorsing ******* (and that is hardly scratching the surface), he takes negative opinions as "Jealousy", how comical.
Then you have his hardcore fanboys who defend his ******* actions to the grave, attacking (via messages and such, not physically) anybody with a different opinion and accusing them (like Mark himself) of being "Jealous", how comical.
I used to be a fan, but then it hit me: The mod is wank, the authors a **** and so are the fanboys, avoid this ****.

Marathon is a unique and fulfilling experience, Marathon was able to spawn Bungie 3 games (More were planned but never happened) due to the success of the game.
originally "The Mac's answer to Doom", Bungie's marathon is a first person shooter from 1996 where the player is a security guard sent to stop a hostile alien invasion, at the end of Marathon 1, you are placed into stasis by your A.I "teammate" Durandle to be used later in his plans.
This is where Marathon 2 begins, Durandle has allied himself with the alien slaves you rescued back on the UESC Marathon and is heading to their home planet in search of a weapon to use against the Pfhor slavers.
Gameplay wise, this game is not that strong, it may have features such as duel wielding smaller weapons (Pistols, shotguns and your fists) as well as a having few bigger weapons in your arsenal (Machineguns, rocket launchers, flamethrowers, energy pistols and alien rifles) but on the harder difficulties you will be destroyed, seriously "Total Carnage" difficulty will have you doing the the first few levels for hours, but to help with this, the BOBs you rescued are now equipped with pistols to help you kill enemies... only for them to get stuck in a corridor...

Despite its flaws, Marathon is a worthy game for any gamers collection...
AND ITS FREEWARE!