Last Updated 17 April 2000
| Source Ports |
Imagine your good old Doom, but with:
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| Memento Mori |
 This
addon pack was made during Doom's glory days. It is intended primarily
for cooperative play, and was made by some of the world's best Doom level
authors. All 32 levels are replaced (with new music and some new wall textures).
Storyline is based around earth's reconstruction shortly after where Doom2
left off, when all but one of the dimensional portals had been closed.
The levels tend to be enormous and well built.
An updated version of MM has also been released, but i'm not really sure what was changed since i've only downloaded the original version. Alternatively, you can always download and run the infopack, which contains the full storyline, and some details of all the levels (including screenshots).. |
| Memento Mori 2 |
 MM2
is more single-player orientated than the first MM. This time you've been
shipped off to sort out yet another invasion from hell, this time on the
Jupiter colony. MM2 includes many more new wall and floor textures than
MM1, and does the original justice (even having new and different music
for every level). It does overdo the enemies a bit but not to any serious
extent as many of the levels are enormous (and well built), in cases obviously
made with CoOp play in mind. Unfortunately, some of the music tracks don't
play properly in any version of Doom other than the idsoftware ones (almost
all the musics are played improperly in DoomLegacy) - pity as MM2 is otherwise
one of the best level packs ever made.
As with MM1, Memento Mori 2 also includes an infopack. I'm not sure why, but MacDoom users will also need to download a bugfix patch.. |
| Icarus: Alien Vanguard |
 Typical
storyline that starts off where Doom2 left off (12 years after in this
case). Your on a lone mission to recover a vessel, either sterilizing it
of all enemies before bringing it back, or activating its self-destruct
before abandoning it.
Its a decent this 32-maps pack, even if it is rather run-of-the-mill. It includes new graphics and music (all of which i think were made from scratch - no ripped resources which is a nice change), and overall it is worth a glance. |
| Eternal Doom |
 This
addon does the term 'Total Conversion' real justice. In the storyline,
the powers that be had learned their lesson with the locational portals,
so instead they decided to built time portals. Not too surprising, hell
also learned a few lessons and decided this time to invade earth.. ..in
the distance past. You are part of a DeathSquad sent back through time
to stop the invasion.
Eternal Doom requires you to run an installer which takes some data from your doom2.wad and add it to the eternal.wad (which ends up being around 27mb), although any decent modern source port (such as zDoom) shouldn't require this to be run. The download is 9mb (very big by Doom standards), and the levels (32, plus 3 novelty maps such as a credits level) are enormous (Quake and Unreal engines would not able to support levels this big on realistic machines) . Also includes a whole range of new graphics (new wall/floor/ceiling textures, new objects, etc) including a new-looking Imp that has a darker skin colour. Perhaps the best Doom2 level addon ever - one or two levels cause problems with DoomLegacy (not sure if this has been fixed since i've since dumped Legacy), but otherwise, its the best Doom2 level pack i've tried. Downside is that many (but probably only a minority) of the new graphics are ripped from Hexen, and to a lesser extent, Heretic and Quake, but all the replacement musics are original (to me, the music is a major plus-point). This is one to download. |
| Requiem |
 This
is a Memento Mori style level
pack, and any fo the people involved in its production also worked
on one (or both) of the MM projects. Expect quality because this is one
of the few level packs that has it by the bucketload. The music is all
new (specially written for the pack) and there are very few (only 2 or
3 i think - and they are hard to spot) ripped graphics. I like the gothic
style that some of the levels use, but Requiem does have other styles of
level for those who want them.
I can't remember what the storyline is offhand, but thats just a suppliment to this set of very good levels. It even includes a MM-style infopack (1.1mb), though all the information (but not the screenshots) it includes are included in Requiem's readme. A bit hard in places though. |