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IDITAROD.WAD

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IDITAROD.WAD is 10 complete well designed levels for single player play. This wad is a reflection of a lot of hard work and dedication. This copy is an exclusive release. When QUAKE comes out, many DOOM 2 players will spend the next 12 months figuring out deathmatch strategies on it so this is my TRIBUTE to the beauty, wonder, fear, challenge, and just plain fun game of DOOM 2.
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Argenteo

Argenteo

  

Some maps are fun, others have some weird switch combinations to put pressure in the player, I didn't have a good time with these maps. Just read vdgg review.

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vdgg

vdgg

  

This mapper did create good stuff, pazuzu, diabolos and odyssey. This is way, way below these WADs. I am the first reviewer to mention massive (but massive) HOMs on MAP10! 2 stars for:

- awesome grey blocks area in motion in the middle of MAP08

- some occasional decent moments, I guess MAP03 is fine, MAP04 is okayish.

- visually it is not bad for 1996.

But come on. One motif is: "press switch A to lower a lift, press switch B that opens a door somewhere far, but press it a bit later, just to get in time to the lift, not too early as the door will shut". After that door you often have a wall of monsters, so sometimes you retreat and repeat. This motif is used over and over and over again. You also experience cramped mazy hallways quite a lot and lots of damaging floors. Some of these damaging floors are used for extra spice during combat, but most of them are there to make you think faster about the puzzle solution :) It is not easy for me to pick the worst map, MAP05, 07 and 09 set the bar quite high. And it is me who is writing this, I enjoy cleim20, odessas, some cryptic stuff, but I just can't stand >80% of this creation.

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lupinx-Kassman

lupinx-Kassman

  

10-map episode by Myscha, one of the authors behind Unreal. Remember Unreal? Big open levels with expansive vistas. Its the polar opposite of IDITAROD. Its still a cut above the crop for the time if you can get past the claustrophobia. Boy he wasn't kidding about the difficulty spikes. Not sure how you pistol-start MAP07.

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prity good the gameplay is allrite and the overall dezine is prity good the new sounds are prity cool to but thair is only won thing i dont get.... what the hell dus this have to do with the iditarod?... 4/5 -simon cowel
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Cool '96 wad. I liked the switch puzzles. Helps to listen and look at the automap to see what does what. I didn't pistol start the levels, except map01.
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This is a solid set of levels, especially for 1996, from a designer who went on to work for Epic Megagames (Doomworld has an interview with him at http://preview.tinyu rl.com/38hxj7 ). Tough and a bit switchy, simple design, a few design tricks. Too many maps rely on you flicking a switch and then running to go through a distant door, e.g. Map05, which is irritating. Map10 starts crap but has a nice finale. Good sound replacement, inc. new rocket whoosh.
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    • Woolie Wool
      Doom 2 the Way id Did
      By Woolie Wool · Posted
      Did you like doom2.wad? This is like doom2.wad, only harder. In that respect, D2TWID succeeds quite handily.   That said, I find the maps are good in pretty much inverse proportion to how "experimental" they are, "experimental" being a euphemism for "forget everything the community has learned since 1994 on what makes maps fun to play" or "relive Sandy Petersen's worst ideas". There are many great maps like 3, 6, 11, 13, 15, 18, 23, and 29 that have either fast, fluid combat, rewarding exploration, or both, interspersed with "experimental" maps like 5, 9, 10, 19, 24, and 28 that "experiment" with every possible way to annoy and frustrate the player--mandatory treks across damaging floors sans radsuit, health-tax teleports into crowds of enemies at close range, irritating teleport puzzles, heinous Pain Elemental spam encounters (the entire wad could be treated as a course in how not to use Pain Elementals), awkward platforming, hideous texture combinations. Overall this map has more highs than lows but the lows can get really, really low.
    • Walter confetti
      Very Small Level.
      By Walter confetti · Posted
      Small and fun map indeed, some neat stuff despite the year it was done.
    • bowserknight
      Maskim Xul
      By bowserknight · Posted
      The first time I played this it took me like 10 hours just to complete map 02 because I kept getting stuck and I always try to find as many secrets as I can. In this wad I had pretty bad luck with that. But the journey on your first playthrough is really amazing, you wander around until you finally find the way forward and that always feels really nice. It's cool how the entire map 02 is a mix between exploration and monster fighting. It has its moments that can make you feel uneasy, like spotting random eyes that stare at you through the walls or similiar small details. The Binding of Isaac secrets are a little silly tho, to be honest. I do love the replacement for the BFG tho! Balancing your health for a burst of damage is a fun and risky mechanic.   Map 03 is way more straightforward, it's like a short gauntlet towards the final boss. This map has a lot of parts that can feel unfair, like spawning explosive Lost Souls or trap bombs right next to you. Or the abundance of Archviles later on. While I personally don't mind the Archvile library, it can still royally mess you up if you don't take them step by step. The final boss could be fun too, but its 2nd phase is just too much. More strong monsters and also Archviles, with zero walls to hide behind. I have never been able to beat the final boss legit, I always get one of the randomized powerups and hope I get an invulnerability, so I can spam the Necronomicon endlessly. It's the only way I can beat it, the fight is either way too hard or way too easy if you use this method.   I love the ending tho, very creepy.
    • bowserknight
      Unloved
      By bowserknight · Posted
      This might just be my favourite horror-ish Doom wad of all time, apart from myhouse, Maskim Xul and maybe some other ones.   What I like: +the overall theme +your house being a hub area +the dark atmosphere +the semi open-endedness of the progression +there are no jumpscares or anything of that sort +the fact that the game remembers your progress while alternating between maps +the music +the difficulty, even tho it is indeed a little too much sometimes   What I dislike: -A few certain fights that feel unfair (some examples: the long hallway where you get one of the keys and Archviles spawn behind you, there's no place to hide from their attack; or later when you return to the lower floors of the 1st major area, the fights in the narrow rooms with Archviles, immediately followed by a swarm of chainsaw zombies, where your only hope is to camp on top of an object; or some of the slaughter fights later on, especially in the chapel area) -the ending feels meh
    • bowserknight
      Equinox
      By bowserknight · Posted
      It's a pretty fun bunch of maps with some interesting designs. Just don't try to get 100% kills, on most of the later maps it's not even possible. 
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