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Doomkid92 said:
I'm in agreeance with the crowd saying "Crappy sound effects, plastic monsters, too dark." This game literally sits directly in between Doom 2 and Doom 3. HOWEVER, this is by no means all bad. The game kicks butt to play (In large part thanks to Kaiser, seriously screw the n64 controller for anything that isnt Mario Kart) and is far more atmospheric/creepy than the early stages of Doom and Doom 2.

That said, I'm a huuuuuuge fan of color, and the old Dooms bring it where Doom 64 lacks it. Darkness and creepyness is good, but I dont need it 110% of the time.

Also there's hardly any soundtrack to speak of. In my honest opinion, as a rock/metal/industrial/general music lover, D64 and PSX Doom seriously took the easy way out and just recorded people with the sink on in the far distance, occasionally making some strange sweeping 'woosh' sounds and stuff. Nothing compared to the action-packed feel of Hangar's music, or the dark moody ambience of tracks like E1M3 and E1M8.

Overall, definitely a worthy Doom title, but nothing beats the sheer fun factor of blasting through Doom2's abstract and interesting mapset (admittedly, some of Sandy's maps are ugly.. But they're all fun!)

4/5. A well earned score.

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heavy metal would have completely destroyed the ambiance and darker nature that PSX Doom and Doom 64 brought

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brainstewx said:
Good. It's supposed to be Doom, not Resident Evil.

The heavy metal Doom games makes the player (at least me) feel as if they're a real badass, whereas the ambient 'scary' noise makes the player feel as if they're a victim in a survival horror. That just not what Doom was supposed to be about.



However to give Doom 64 credit where it's due, I must say I like the redesigned enemy sprites much more in Doom 64, especially the Pain Elementals and Arachnotrons. See, it's possible to be creepy without taking the music in a different direction.

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brainstewx said:

Good. It's supposed to be Doom, not Resident Evil.

The heavy metal Doom games makes the player (at least me) feel as if they're a real badass, whereas the ambient 'scary' noise makes the player feel as if they're a victim in a survival horror. That just not what Doom was supposed to be about.



However to give Doom 64 credit where it's due, I must say I like the redesigned enemy sprites much more in Doom 64, especially the Pain Elementals and Arachnotrons. See, it's possible to be creepy without taking the music in a different direction.

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brainstewx said:
However to give Doom 64 credit where it's due, I must say I like the redesigned enemy sprites much more in Doom 64... See, it's possible to be creepy without taking the music in a different direction.

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Doomhuntress said:
actually, i'd say Doom works as a quite multi-faceted game; it can have bombastic, epic firefights with heavy metal MIDIs blasting in the background, and it can take a darker tone; with sparser encounters, darker, ambient music, and generate a sense of dread in the player. i think Doom 64 and PSX Doom confirms that.

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BaronOfStuff said:
cliché 'shackles of evil'

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