Reviews - The Lost Mission mod for Doom III

Fantastic 1:1 port of Lost Mission for original Doom 3. Recommended!!!

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Great port.

Good mod.

Overall Lost Mission is good solid expansion, shorter and with bit less content than RoE. Levels are themed wit design of Doom3 maps like: Enpro Reactor, Mars City Underground but with less operating machinery, Delta labs with extra layer of red paint, Hell with little mix of ancient Mars ruins. It's based on action, understood how D3 guns and demons works and put them in good combination. Combat encounters are well balanced, You will shoot a lot, feel powerful, but game will not overwhelm You with too many demons at once. Story is simple, but that is good. There is less PDA mails and audio logs so player is not constantly diverted from first person view.

Pros:
- action, gun fights, well balanced different demons encounter rate and weapon pickup progress

- minimal use of UAC PDA mails and audio logs

- lightning, it feels as dark as in original D3, but for most time You know and see well where to go and what to pick up

- level design and layout in big scale, how rooms and corridors are connected, fast flow of action,

- hell levels looks awesome, they fit D3 design, they look original

Cons:
- level design in small scale, rooms feel as they were copy and paste from original D3 with bit different textures and without small props and details, some rooms feel very empty and lack details, lack small geometry like pipes on walls, machinery, boxes, broken stuff, small props, items, (except last two levels that took place in hell)

- only one simple grabber puzzle, I wish there were more places and more ways to use it in combat

- last boss "Guardian" is reused, his attack patterns are ok, but I would personally suggest to use different model - maybe Kenneth Scott birdman demon

- once there was nice designed place with additional green light and sign on wall that there is heath station, but for other health stations they are placed on random walls without those details,

- add two security drones to room with NPC in Exis labs

- add two security drones to space marine squad at ending animation (rescue team at end of D3 use them)

- I would love to see this mod improved with new final boss model and more details put into few places in maps

- I would also love to see more mods like this, well balanced, focused on combat, with similar amount of maps, and theme that You are someone else in UAC base

Constantly crashes to desktop even with the source code installed in the d3le file and when running ROE.

This is great for those of us that don't want to re-buy the same two games just for one expansion (I have the original disc version). I didn't have any issues with bugs either. Good job to those who developed the port.

Regarding the expansion itself, compared to D3 and ROE, it's lacking. There's no artifact, soul cube or chainsaw. There are also hardly any of the scare tactics you'd expect to find in a D3 title. My opinion, the PC port is a way better option than spending money on the BFG edition.

Nice remake for original DOOM 3