Doom, the game that launched a thousand FPS cliches, the first shareware game i ever owned for the P.C., the music was awesome, the sound effect for the shotgun is possibly my favorite ever weapon noise and the even the doors have a sinister shriek, how could you possibly mess up such a fantastic formula?
Well Atari and midway managed it, the frame rate is okay and the controllers work nicely with button overlay (see pic) for the weapons switching.
However the res level is far lower than the P.C. version, this leads to blocky visual and blurry back grounds, the visuals are very dark and this leads to confusion, there is no gama or brightness ajustments so you can't ajust the visuals to help with this.
The system link feature is a great idea, it allows you to play death match and co-op modes, however you need two consoles to do this and there are network errors documented on allot of forums.
But the real kicker, the absolute let down is the lack of music, you play this great game with no soundtrack what so ever, this kills any atmosphere that was left .
If your going to play doom i would recomend the PC or mac version over this, although to be fair it runs alot better than the other cartrage based systems doom has appeared on.
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