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Apart from the altered level designs and updated visuals, the only noticeable change is the addition of a single extra weapon to the arsenal, a rapid-fire laser which when fully powered-up rips through enemies like a hot knife through a baby.

Despite their grotesque new clothes, the monsters still behave in ways which will be very familiar to demon hunters of old, so the same tactics still work on them. The main difference is getting used to the analogue control, which at first tends to send you charging head-first into walls and skidding off ledges!

One annoying thing about the controls is the way that the L and R shoulder buttons have been set up to let you sidestep in order to strafe enemies - while you're using them, you can't reach the trigger button to shoot. All you have to shoot with at the beginning of the game is a pokey little pistol, which can take down the zombie cannon fodder patrolling the early levels in a couple of shots but isn't much use for anything else.

Luckily, it doesn't take long before some of the zombies cough up more powerful weapons like shotguns or miniguns, which makes the job of cleansing the corridors a lot easier. Even more powerful hardware is there to be discovered if you take the time to explore the levels fully and seek out hidden areas.

The change in approach from earlier versions of Doom makes Doom 64 a lot more atmospheric. Good use is made of the N64's lighting effects without going totally overboard on things, areas which aren't cloaked in moody shadows usually glowing with ominous red, green or blue ambient glows from machinery or pools of toxic chemicals. While the monsters aren't any more intelligent than in earlier games, the more tangled level design makes it a lot more likely that you'll come across them unexpectedly.

Where you used to be able to stroll confidently around a corner and pick off monsters from a distance, now the drooling scum are practically biting your head off before you can bring your gun to bear. In a way, this actually makes things all the more enjoyable when you finally get hold of a really kick-ass gun like the plasma rifle - enemies die screaming right in your face so you can almost smell the blood!

Doom 64 really only falters because of the age of the basic game design - by the time it appeared on import, Turok had already updated everyone's expectations of a first-person shooter, and now Goldeneye has raised the stakes yet further.

Still, for undiluted mayhem Doom 64 can still hold its own - if you have a lust for blood and don't want to solve any task more mindbending than 'pick up the key and kill the monsters', Doom 64 could well be worth a place in your software collection!

Solid and workmanlike but. I've been here before. There's a ten foot furious-looking red chap throwing green fireballs at my arse and I'm hightailing it down a spiral flight of stairs. It all seems so wretchedly familiar. A sweet tinkle of groaning torture victims brings it all back, as does the rapid oscillation of my sphincter! Ah yes. Here I am. Back in the deeply twisted world of Doom.

Three and a quarter centuries after it first appeared on an abacus, the great first person perpsective shoot-'em-up has finally made it to Nintendo This is the grand-daddy that started it all I'm not counting Wolfenstein as that belongs to the pre-Doomatic-age.

Most games these days can be described as " Doom but with something. If you haven't played Doom, you need to get a life.

If you have played Doom, you need to claim back that part of your life that you spent picking your way through multiple levels, fiendish puzzles and truly horrible enemies. The trouble with any review is that boring bit which starts: 'You Are A blahdy blahdy blah.

Your manifestation can also tug at switches, pick up ammo and open doors. This is not rocket science. Your job is to get from A to B as fast as possible, during which time you will turn carefully dered monsters into the kind of things Delia might drag out of the fridge after anopen day at the abattoir.

The bad guys move in faintly predetermined formations, firing off guns, fireballs and what-not at you. You avoid these, otherwise a salutary umber on your screen diminishes to nothing, signifying the status of your fragile existence.

Power-ups in the form of First Aid boxes or blue bottles will extend life expectancy, as will planning, experience and just a touch of grey-matter. But stumbling across any knickknack likely to prolong your wheezing life will illicit squeals of everlasting gratitude to the game designer's awesome sense of appropriate timing.

The question is, why is Nintendo bringing such a very old game to such a very new platform? And how does it compare to all the other versions,specifically the PC and PlayStation?

For starters, this is a very different looking game to what you've played before. Not so as you won't recognize it instantly, but you'll certainly see the differences. Despite a much more varied and adventurous use of colour, there Is still a sense of dark foreboding seeping through each and every damp bulk-head.

The developers seem to have been let loose on the color palette but, showing admirable constraint, they haven't opted for ravey pinks and pastels. Instead there are dangerous bloody reds, treacherous bright greens and, most prevalent, deep ponderous blues. If you're looking for differences between this and previous incarnations, the monsters are a good start. It seems that the higher the monster is in the sick hierarchy of evil,the more he or it has changed. Far from being the creatures of old, which always looked as though they could benefit from an overnight stay at the dry cleaners, they are now slick, pseudo metallic warriors.

Equally astonishing are those fat red things which run up corridors and try to grab you. The best thing about these guys is the 'thud' they make when they hit the ground. Now though, I have taken a fancy to their teeth and claws, details which were sadly missing in previous versions of the game.

It was always hard to take these lumps of crimson lard all that seriously but now, well, they deserve a little more respect. Not surprisingly, Midway Studios has not been slow to take advantage of the Nintendo 64's amazing technical treats. These include the use of translucent fade-in of characters which makes for a more realistic and eerie entrance for the host of Satanic cohorts. If you must prove the superiority of your machine over lesser manifestations, such as PlayStation, this is an effect worth displaying.

Another is the way the platforms and balconies can overhang lower levels. On other machines, the effect of 3-D, and of depth between levels was a 2D hack. Thus it was impossible for, say, a bad guy to be lurking beneath you while you frantically pace across a balcony. This trick doesn't make for a completely new game, but it does add spice even for the most experienced Doom-a-phile. The levels are all 3-D polygon maps as always and the characters are sprites. But get up close to anything in this game and you won't get that annoying pixelation which had always plagued the Dooms.

Everything is smooth and silky. Beautiful in fact. Perspective correcting, anti-aliasing, z-buffering, and mip-mapping have all been incorporated into solving Doom's long-standing pixelation and other graphics problems. The result is that the game is a supermodel of Dooms. As for level design, here was an area where there could have been genuine concern. The levels were not designed by ld, but by Midway. Apparently though, ld was super-strict on exercising their famous veto.

Id Software left the San Diego Midway studios with nothing but glowing praise. Doom, is a huge attraction, and the game has an immersive feel unlike any of the other Doom versions, or any other first-person shoot-'em-ups".

My feeling is that although this is still a glorious weapons-fest, puzzle solving is slightly more prevalent than usual. Sure, it's all trial and error stuff. You figure the way out by exploring everywhere and that's as far as the puzzle really goes.

But there seem to be more switches and traps and lifts and such-like than usual Perhaps this is a result of the game's age, and the need to try to add depth where in essence, there is none.

Perhaps also there is the desire to make the most of 30 levels, which is a good deal less than the 55 offered in the PlayStation version. It should be stressed though, that these are all absolutely new levels, while the PSX version carried nothing but PC rehashes. But before the death-mongers among you turn-off at the prospect of having to use your brains, it should be stated that this is, and always will be, a game where the winner knows how to shoot, and how to get out of trouble.

An extra weapon has been thrown in which can best be described as a laser action machine gun. In the catalogue of firearms, it's listed above the truly magnificent BFG , but if truth be known, I'd put it between the rocket launcher and the plasma gun.

And so, finally, to the score. You will know the score already, because it was the first thing you looked at. I am at a loss. On the one hand, this is a very old game which has been dusted down and brightened up because it's a sure fire winner. Cynics might suggest that the Nintendo 64 was built for better things. On the other, it's flaming good fan, and will prove to be well worth your spendage, even if you have already spent half your life crawling the caverns of Doom on all the other platforms.

A worthy update of an undoubted classic, but it's not exactly a major step forward. If you're a Doom fan looking for the brand-new installment, look no further. Doom 64 will be a unique version of the trend-set-ting first-person shooter that will not appear for any other system, including the PC.

You'll still be required to hunt down weird monsters in face-to-what-ever gun battles, but rumor has it that this time the action may spread from Mars onto other worlds. Fight at the UAC station, or kill enemies in Hell. You will follow rooms separated by partitions, walls and doors. Find new weapons at locations. You can find useful items like ammo or pharmacies in secret areas. They can be reached by pressing the wall button, solving the puzzle or pulling the lever.. Chainsaw, machine guns, RPGs, high-tech cannons, laser guns and many other weapons will open to you as you progress through the story.

You will encounter a wide variety of enemies. Some of them are terrifying monsters that can move quickly, fly or splash poisonous mixtures. Sometimes you will fight bosses with a lot of health and damage. Pick up temporary bonuses scattered across the territories, for example, invulnerability, increased damage, and others. Change language. Install Steam. Your Store Your Store. Categories Categories. Special Sections. Player Support. Community Hub. DOOM Bethesda Softworks.

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