Overview
The Parallel Dimension substitutes Ultimate Doom's second episode, The Shores Of Hell, and
takes full advantage of the impressive Boom source-port.
Boom's special effects that are
included in PD are: translucent walls/windows, scrolling floors and ceilings, deep water
pools and rivers, colored lightning effects, wind, mud and current effects, incredible
lightning effects and lots of other cool stuff that we're proud of! You can only discover
them by playing The Parallel Dimension yourself!
You thought that Hell was a bad enough place. You were wrong. Now you'll enter a place
which makes Hell feel like a walk in a park. You are part of a 10-man marine corps, which
is sent into The Parallel Dimension, the homeworld of all evil, with only one objective:
plant a bomb in the Parallel Dimension's main laboratory, set the timer, and get out alive,
quick! The result: total annihilation of the demons homeworld and race.
As you may have guessed from the text above, The Parallel Dimension is an action-packed
episode with hordes of demons that seem never-ending.
Need we say more?
The Story So Far...
After the last catastrophe on the moon base of Jupiter - a conflict where you were the sole survivor,
UAC learned their lesson, and gave an order to demolish every base in space containing any kind of
slipgate technology. Only some mineral-mining bases were left on the two moons of Saturn, Enceladus
and Tethys. All marines were called back to Earth for easy duties. Quietly, UAC slipped out of the
public eye.
Months later, while you were enjoying your vacation on an Hawaiian beach, were called along with other
highly-trained marines to the UAC's main base in the Mojave desert in Nevada, USA. At the base, you were
called up among with the others in a briefing room. Three scientists started explaining the cause of your
sudden calling. "During these months of silence, we started a research to find the origin of those
horrendous beasts that attacked our bases on Mars, Jupiter and Earth. From the remains of those battles
we got proof that demonstrated that our newest theory is correct: those demons aren't from another world
or planet, but from an another dimension. The Parallel Dimension. From the birth of the human civilization,
this dimension already existed with a civilization, too. The beings on that dimension were normal humans
like us, as intelligent as us, but... far more aggressive and violent. With time the human race in that
dimension evolved like us. We calculated that in 1950 they invented the atomic bomb, which was not unusual,
because we had already invented it, too. The only difference is, that we have atomic bombs, but we don't use
them. These guys in the other dimension were so aggressive, that a little spark was enough to start a world war.
And in 1960 it happened. They started a nuclear war. As a result, all the population's constructions were
semi-destroyed. All the population was dead or suffered horrendous mutations. These mutations turned the alive
part of the population into flesh-eating demons! Their civilization was almost destroyed. Only ruins of a human
race was left. The dimension became a hell, with hell's habitants. Although they mutated into cannibal
monstrosities, a little bit of intelligence was still left in some of them. These individuals found some
slipgates they had constructed decades ago, and these slipgates were still functional. They started using
them to attack us and our dimension. The rest, as they say, is history.
Here is where you enter, soldiers. This time it's us who are gonna attack them! With this new perfect slipgate
we've constructed, a commando squad will enter the Parallel Dimension. You'll carry with you this fusion-based
bomb, that has enough power to destroy the whole population of that damn dimension. When you enter their dimension,
you should be in some kind of laboratory complex. Just put the bomb device on a fusion generator inside the lab and
initiate it. Within moments the Parallel Dimension will be no more. Before the bomb explodes, you'll return and be
received as heroes. Sounds clear? Okay, let's start the procedures! Operation Parallel Strike preparing phase one!"
While the other marines prepare for the mission, you suddenly get an urgent need to go to the toilet. When you come
back and enter the room where the slipgate is, you see that the 9 other marines have already entered it! Wait for me!
Quickly, you enter the slipgate, hoping that it's going to be easy. After a mix of bright stars and flashes, you exit
from the slipgate in the Parallel Dimension, and find yourself in a firefight with those demons. They were somehow
expecting your arrival, and killed the squad with the bomb, and are now slaughtering the last ones in your 10-man squad.
You quickly turn back, only to see that the contact with your world is lost. Filled with rage you attack the beasts that
killed your buddies, and realize that your only chance to get back home and live sane for the rest of your life is to
find that fusion bomb, blow this dimension to kingdom come and return home. Again, alone.
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