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Showing posts with label Doom. Show all posts

Doom 64: Retribution (PC) Review

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This was one of my “white whale” games. At first when the N64 was new, it was simply as an FPS game I could see working on a controller (I HATED looking up and down on a stick or buttons, even then), and having played Doom and Doom II when I finally had the hardware to in high school, this game definitely grabbed my attention. But it wasn’t enough to get the console for, so I unfortunately missed this one in it’s heyday. By the time I got the system after-market, the cart was getting hard to find in stores, so I just never got the chance… until today. You see, there are gamers who hate the idea of a game falling back into obscurity when it really deserves better, and there are few mod-communities as active as those for the Doom franchise. Even today people actively create new mods pretty regularly for the original DOS-based games, albeit now relying on extra features of user-made engine upgrades. I became aware of 3 such mods designed to port this game to the PC and looking them over, I decided to download and install this one. So COMPLETELY worth it.