Doom II

The kind of game you can't put down

This game isn't as great as the original, but that doesn't stop it from being great! Unfairly difficult puzzles riddle each of the geniusly designed levels from the first to the last. The demons, old and new, keep their heavy influence from H.P. Lovecraft and are tons of fun to blast apart. The chainsaw is still one of the funnest weapons ever invented in a game and "Doom II" shows just why that is. The enemies are all fun to chop up as they scream and bleed while you relentlessly chew away at them with your chainsaw. Is it just me or was that one sadistic statement? The old demons are all here: former soldiers, former sargeants, imps, bull demons, spectres, barons of hell, cacodemons, lost souls, and cyberdemons. They're all just as pathetic or truly frightening as they were the first time we ran into them in the original. However, the new demons are truly spectacular: chaingun zombies, reverents, mancubuses, arachnotrons, and those weird, floating heads that shoot out lost souls. Each one of them is terrifyingly imposing (especially those pesky, heat-tracking missile shooting reverents). I'm still at a loss as to which kind of combat is funner: stealthily killing a couple of demons while their backs are turned or having time to do nothing but hit the fire button as you run around in circles, desperately hoping that your decreasing ammo supply will last long enough to get you out of this alive. Probably the latter. Another question on my mind: what was with those Nazi levels? They were fun... but just so weird I felt like I was losing my 10-year old mind! (I'm 15 now and have spent 10 of those years a dedicated player of first person shooters, a dedication begun by the original "Doom") This game is so fun... so fun... that it... um... that it's fun.