Here’s how to play the new Doom level, created by John Romero co-developer of the first Doom title. Roughly 21 years after the original Doom greeted us with its awesome destruction, Romero decided to jump on its revival bandwagon after fans across the world tried to port it to unlikely platforms – think of the Apple Watch and Apple TV.
The level boasts a new area where the player can shoot monsters and villains.
It took two weeks of Romero’s spare time to build the level, according to him. The game developer used the 1990’s Id Software modding tool, Doom WAD, in building the new level, as to be in touch with the same restriction and capabilities as back then.
Romero calls the level E1M8B – which is the boss level replacement for the level E1M8 almost 22 years later, says the developer.
It’s the 8th and last map of Knee-Deep in the Dead – the first episode of Doom.
In order to play it, you need the original Doom game, and ZDoom or similar software and tools. The new map can be played in deathmatch, co-op and solo. You can buy the game from Steam.
- Download the free Zdoom port.
- Copy the Doom.wad file to the Zdoom directory. Remember to unzip the installation package first.
- Drag and drop the new level – e1m8b.wad on top of the .exe, thus launching the game with the new level.
Romero is not part of the dev team that’s working on continuing the popular franchise. Bethesda took control over the series, and it plans on releasing a new modern Doom game sometime in 2016. There is no info on when that’s going to happen, but due to Amazon and the company’s confused bunch of employees, a potential leak was displayed a while back – June 30th, 2016.
Given the recent development – fans trying to port it to smartwatches, Bethesda revitalizing the franchise and Romero building another level, it’s quite impossible to see that Doom will die out anytime soon.
Did you know that there’s a dedicated gaming community called DoomWorld that has been modding and playing the game for about 20 years now?
Talk about loyalty.
The 2004 Doom 3 achieved Gold status, and it witnessed a huge popularity with fans and critics considering it a great sequel to the series. In 2012 Bethesda released a much improved Doom 3 version called Doom 3 BFG Edition – stylized as D00m 3 BFG Edition.
What we’ve seen so far, the Doom 2016 builds on top of the franchise, steering away from the 2004 title, but just slightly.
Download the new Doom level e1m8b.zip right here.
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