Eternal Doom

Really friggin huge, so huge in fact that it leaves you feeling physically exhausted after slogging through some of the more massive levels. But it's got excellent gameplay and it looks great, except for some of the new custom textures which can be kind of lame. Plus it's got three levels from Sverre in it! GO SVERRE!! But yeah, certainly one of the best megawads around and highly recommended.

If you are not a fan of "find the hidden switch" puzzles then this wad will annoy the crap out of you. If you are then there are better games for it that DOOM. I would say get this wad just for the music, but no need as the music has been released separately.

Quite inspirational in terms of architecture, but a bit dated in the look of more than one level. The very first maps are unnecessarily tedious and might discourage most players from progressing. Overall, a moderately adviced play. *** >Lupe

Jim Flynn's levels are the most epic maps I've played in the history of all things video game related. ~vf

Beautifully designed levels, but it's never clear where you should go next (to the point that I can't finish half of them simply because I get lost), and they can be very sparse and boring to play. 3/5

I was a bit intimidated when I unzipped this; at first it looks like one of those pre-source port mods that has to be patched up in order for it to work. Thankfully it seems to run fine if you just load up Eternall.wad. I can understand the plaudits. The first three levels are awful, but after that it turns into a set of gorgeous, large-scale levels with a Hexen/Heretic flavour. It's ferociously tricky.

Wonderfully detailed, but over-the-top with its difficulty. The maps are ridiculously huge, the challenges are complicated to the point of insanity...each level just drags on and on. Not really my kind of thing. If you like WADs with gigantic maps and over-the-top challenges, then this is the WAD for you.

This deserves five stars. Period.

Just spent over two hours on the most obscure switch hunt bullshit on map31 and decided to put this one down and not come back to it. The levels aren't even that huge they just take ages due to the inane puzzles.

First level shows potential, but then it starts on 2nd map with no way out.

Excellent level design--some levels are rather bland, but the medieval levels more than make up for it with great architecture. However, the puzzles on some maps are downright ridiculously obscure (unmarked doors, very hard-to-see switches, etc. all this on giant maps which may take well over a hour to finish.) MAP30 perhaps takes the cake with its utterly ridiculous, confusing puzzles, and pretty much ruined the finale for me. Still worth seeing, for the huge, well-crafted levels alone.

5 stars!

Yeah, it's confusing, but I think they're a lot of fun to learn. I used to hate some of these maps, but after learning them in an editor they became some of my favourite. Don't be lazy!

still no match in 2014

It's Good

In terms of architecture and design, this wad (at least most of the levels in it) was so far ahead of its time that no words in the English language could truly describe it. Sadly, the gameplay on some levels is a bit more hit or miss due to the many, many puzzles that could be considered highly complex even by today's standards - but still, if you can put up with that it has no other faults, and I don't hestitate to give 5 stars.

great stuff!

Utterly brilliant, but the levels way, way, way too long and puzzle-like. I never did figure out map30. --Woolie

Contains one of the biggest and most complex doom levels you will ever have seen..and thats only the second level! play now!

My all-time favorite partial conversion. The levels have a melancholic beauty seldom seen in DooM mods. It has excellent new textures and flats, terrific map design, mesmerizing music, and challenging gameplay. Isn't that why we all play DooM? 6 Stars. Heh.

An epic adventure, so much better than the overused gun and gun idea.

Went from playing this in crappy CGA under DOS circa 1998 to PRBOOM at 1024*768 circa December 2013. as a result It's even better now than it was when I first found this WAD on some local BBS back in '98. Only giving it four stars because I, too, had to "hack" parts of it in Doom Builder to make it more playable (solvable) Otherwise a good effort, even 15 years later. It'll probably hold up for another 15.

This is an amazing megawad IMO, although it may not suite everyones taste. It contains 32 new levels, most of which are enormous and complex (and some ultra-complex), practically all new textures, and of course, new music. The architecture is good (especially for 1997), and I found the gameplay fun, since I don't mind huge, puzzling levels, but those who do mind such levels will find this VERY frustrating. In my opinion, it gets a 5/5, but those who don't like huge and/or complex maps should stay away.

It's really good...but a few of the levels (31&20) are so long, so boring, and so puzzling that I had to skip them. Also, playing this in the day is impossible due to the darkness. Still, a very solid Megawad. 4/5

i mean really, who hasn't used at least parts of the fuckin awesome eternal graphix pack in their own WADS? probably everybody who was anybody did. Im fact, that gives me a new idea for my next WAD mashup ``ETernal DOOM IV: Revenge Of The Flemoids''!!!! Too much?