You earn XP for kills, and enough XP grants you a new character level. Progression is kept fairly linear, but you can return to any previous level or choose the next one to go to within unlocked sets. A medic and a store are located here, while color keycards unlock access to later sectors. Taking a page from the Doom Bible‘s original game concept, these levels are connected by a central hub named Junction. Who can you trust? Who’s the enemy? Well, the demons are the enemy, but who let them out? You’ll run into both throughout the game, and it actually does a respectable job at casting suspicion back and forth between them. Guerard, make up the main cast and are at odds with each other.
It’s obvious someone was hoarding equipment and running unauthorized experiments, but how does that explain the demons running rampant and how can they be stopped? Two reoccurring characters, Dr. Emails can be read on computer terminals that offer level clues and additional narrative. NPC characters are frequent and chatting with them offers backstory and level hints. The plot here is the same it’s always been – bad times at the UAC base on Mars, you’re the lone, unnammed marine left to clean up – only now there’s an effort to expand and actually showcase that plot. You can’t quite “talk to the creatures and make friends with them” yet, but we’re getting closer. It’s a lot better than you would expect, and even more surprising, a lot funnier.
Eschewing attempts to replicate the original on underpowered hardware (like the Duke Nukem J2ME port), this is its own game and its own take on the story. The result is the Java ME and Blackberry-exclusive Doom RPG.
It was, in many ways, an inevitable pairing.Įxcept, Java-based phones weren’t beefy enough to actually run Doom. At the same time, id Software was still out to put Doom on every device with a computer chip, and John Carmack loved a good challenge. While the phones of the early 2000’s weren’t particularly powerful, or particularly “smart,” they still needed games. Remember when cell phones had buttons? Whoa, whoa, don’t strain yourself too hard there, gramps.
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