The chaingun is now an even more powerful minigun that pushes your aim upward as it pulverises your opponents. All the weapons have been revamped, with meatier sound effects, new sprite models, firing animations, and the ability to reload. But like a blast from a super-shotgun, perhaps it's best to start from the barrel and spread outward. It’s difficult to break down exactly what Brutal Doom changes, because it changes so much. wait, where did that guy’s head go? What if I shot that barrel over ther-OH MY GOD.' That all changes the moment you unleash your first pistol shot. Brutal Doom retains the overall aesthetic of Doom, pitting you against largely the same enemies in largely the same places. Created by a South American modder going by the tagline Sergeant_MK_IV, it overhauls the game’s guns, gore, and giblets, reviving it as the blood-soaked adrenaline rush that everybody experienced it as upon first release.įor the first few moment of E1M1, it seems like nothing has changed. What Brutal Doom does, essentially, is show you what Doom looked like to 1993 eyes. Games have out-gored and out-gibbed Doom countless times since 1993, to the point where bursting a group of imps with a nearby explosive barrel is practically quaint. Pixelly pools of blood interspersed with the occasional exposed ribcage? Pfft, shut up, grandad.
Quarter of a century on, it’s hard to see why Adrian Carmack’s art caused such a fuss. It wasn’t the first scapegoat, just as it wasn’t the original first-person shooter. Its depictions of man-on-demon violence caused all manner of controversies and scandals. 25 years ago, Doom was the most shocking game ever made. For Doom, however, it’s the only reasonable approach. Normally, splattering the patient across the surgery walls would not go down well. Where most mod retouches perform their makeover with a scalpel, Brutal Doom opts for a sledgehammer. In a way, Brutal Doom does the same thing, only using a completely different set of tools. This is why there are swathes of mods designed to nip and tuck those ageing stars in just the right places so that your brain is tricked into thinking that this is how it played the first time around. Returning to a 20 or 30 year old game in its vanilla state can be quite a shock given the brain’s annoying tendency to polish the past. Many mods are dedicated to preserving the feel of a classic game, to finding a sweet spot between how a game originally played and making it tolerable to experience with modern hardware and expectations. To kick things off, we’re diving into the guts of one of the best mods ever created – Brutal Doom.
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