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Here comes another old WAD updated by Sparky, the DooM repair man, who fixes illegal wads and makes them nice and non-copyright infringing. Now, the stuff that Sparky normally screws around with is generally horrible, through now fault of his own – he generally picks on pretty early stuff, as those wads are the most likely to have been doing naughty things.
Unlike the abysmal Predator vs. Aliens vs. Terminator (I still have nightmares), this one actually is worth checking out. Oh, it won’t rock your world game-play wise, but the graphics are very nicely drawn and the concepts include stuff I’ve not seen in any other levels. The idea is you play some sort of crazy red fox thing, and go around killing a mixture of regular DooM bad guys and cartoon characters. This, to be fair, isn’t much fun. What this wad does have though, in buckets, is potential. The graphics by an “out of work cartoonist” are very nice, the weapons have a great sense of humour about them (attack people with a garden rake, bullshit people to death), and there’s loads of movie references to films such as the Evil Dead (doesn’t that book look a bit familiar?) and Desperado (nice guitar case, dude). The problem is, this potential just isn’t used. Fighting regular DooM bad guys and using regular DooM textures seems like a waste of a great idea. Now, if someone would only complete it by having all new bad guys and textures, the world would become really atmospheric, with the potential to kick a large amount of ass. In the end though, this wads probably only of interest if you want to continue it and make it into the great thing it could have been... and no, I don’t have time. |
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