About a year after the release of
the original Doom, Id Software followed up with a sequel - Doom II: Hell on
Earth.
I managed to watch what’s probably
the only commercial made about the game and (in my opinion) I don’t think it
did a very good job of promoting the game. It tries to sell the title as a
fighting game which it clearly isn’t given the footage that’s shown; we’ve already had 360 scrolling in the
previous game so there was no need to emphasize it here, and a lot of what was
shown looked very similar to what was in the original Doom. Then, I played the
game and realized just why the commercial was so un-illuminating to me:
Doom II, despite having been
labeled as a sequel, plays more like an expansion pack.
Mind you, this isn’t necessarily a
bad thing given how much I enjoyed the original Doom because of how refined
IT'S gameplay and mechanics were; but that still leaves the question of just
how much does this game add to the classic Doom formula and is it worth
playing?
