We bet when you woke up this morning, "Playing a mod of Doom 2" was probably pretty low on the list of things you thought you'd be doing. But believe us when we tell you that you absolutely shouldn't miss out on Action DooM 2: Urban Brawl. It's free, it doesn't require Doom 2 to run and it's really, really good. We swear.
You play a washed up cop who's forced by tragedy to take to the streets and fight through an army of thugs. The story is related to you through Sin City-inspired cut scenes that have some of the best writing you'll see in a game this year. Yeah, we know, we found it pretty hard to believe too.
As for the actual action, it's a beat 'em up/FPS hybrid, somewhere between Double Dragon and Condemned, with a colorful visual style that really pops despite the graphical limitations.
We should say up front that it's pretty hard and doesn't make a lot of allowances for modern FPS conventions (you will, for example, have to press a button to enable mouse looking) but the whole package is so shockingly good we hope you won't let those hurdles keep you from the goodness within.
[Via IHTP]
Reader Comments (21)
Posted: Sep 15th 2008 8:21PM (Unverified) said
first thing I thought was Condemned meets MS paint. I'll check it out though.
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Posted: Sep 15th 2008 8:38PM KeenCommander said
And, given the above piece of info, I guess I'll actually be playing this one.
I so hated button activated mouselook.
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I so hated button activated mouselook.
Posted: Sep 15th 2008 9:23PM Someguy9 said
Little gameplay video I made... check it out... pretty fun game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWKKr2VL-uc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWKKr2VL-uc
Posted: Sep 15th 2008 10:13PM KeenCommander said
But no, it's a DOOM movie...err, mod. I bet Duke Nukem doesn't love you modders either.
http://www.strifestrips.com/Strifetoons/Index.aspx?ep=0#FlashTop
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http://www.strifestrips.com/Strifetoons/Index.aspx?ep=0#FlashTop
Posted: Sep 16th 2008 1:43AM (Unverified) said
I have no idea what I am suppose to do in that abandon house with that dog I just killed...This game is pissing me off not having any directions or hints...
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Posted: Sep 16th 2008 3:37PM (Unverified) said
There is a shovel and a breakable wall in the basement me thinks.
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Posted: Sep 16th 2008 6:40AM CaramelZappa said
I love the doom games (except for 3)
I got in the habit of playing with one hand for some reason, and got really good at it. (I can beat Doom I on ultra-violent)
WASD is forward/back and strafing, while q and e are turning left/right. Space is fire and F is use. I think it gives you a lot better control than the default controls, and it allows you to drink something with your other hand.
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I got in the habit of playing with one hand for some reason, and got really good at it. (I can beat Doom I on ultra-violent)
WASD is forward/back and strafing, while q and e are turning left/right. Space is fire and F is use. I think it gives you a lot better control than the default controls, and it allows you to drink something with your other hand.
Posted: Sep 16th 2008 9:01AM (Unverified) said
Heh... I've actually been playing Doom2 all week, and really loving it. (the level design was so much better than most of the games we get now).
Game and gameplay holds up really well.. and the Doomsday Engine helps boost the graphics.
I'll check this out as soon as i finish Iji (from big download's freeware recommendation. )
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Game and gameplay holds up really well.. and the Doomsday Engine helps boost the graphics.
I'll check this out as soon as i finish Iji (from big download's freeware recommendation. )
Posted: Sep 16th 2008 7:25PM dartmerc said
If you go to the games site (or even the source at the bottom of this article), you'll see mention of Final Fight.
I don't understand some people on this internet, ONE game was mentioned as a starting point for people to get their head around what this game is like, it's not like 50 games were listed and FF was skipped.
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I don't understand some people on this internet, ONE game was mentioned as a starting point for people to get their head around what this game is like, it's not like 50 games were listed and FF was skipped.
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