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DooM is reason enough to buy a GBA. It is a phenomenal game, one that (in the opinion of a console gun-bunny) demands the D-pad. I know plenty of old-schoolers will say the Mouse is better, but I know what I like.
This game has it all... well, almost. Its not so much the original DooM as a modified Playstation version. Levels such as the Tower of Babel arent here, both the Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind are not included, and Im pretty sure a few of the levels are taken from the Playstation version, not the PC one. That said, all weapons and power-ups are present, theres at least one Secret level (The Military Base) has survived the conversion. If this had been a direct-from-PC port, itd be perfect.
Truly, there is no better way to pass the time when travelling than unloading shells into the minions of Hell. Old school gamers will love the nostalgia, whilst all those thirteen year old Halo players can learn that real men dont need MJOLNIR armour.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 29Apr2007 | | | Doom is a classic. No doubt about it. Still playable nowadays. Superb level design, tight action, all the right things you want in an all-out action FPS.
But it needs a bigger screen. I cant play it on my SP since I cant see whats going on.
A good try, but Ill stick with FFA Tactics and Mario Kart.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 28Jun2004 | | | This is the classic game on the gameboy advance, and it is brilliant. Its basically just that; Doom on the game boy advance. All the sounds and music are pretty much the same as the PC version, and the handy new L and R buttons on the GBA make it easy to sidestep. None of the gameplay has been lost, and the multiplayer is fantastic, provided you can find someone else with a GBA and a doom cartridge.
Of course some things have been changed. As its a console and is targeted at younger people, theyve made the blood (including yours) green. Plus the corpses vanish. These things are minor, but there is the very occasional slowdown also.
The lack of in-game saving only serves to make it more tense and challenging, and youd be surprised at how much absorption and fun you can get out of playing the game on such a small screen.
Another very minor problem is that the Ultra Violence difficulty from the original has been done away with and renamed to Nightmare, so the original nightmare difficulty mode isnt there, if you want it THAT difficult.
My main rant about it is that the levels have been changed quite a bit, especially towards the end. The toughest enemy youll come up against are the acid throwing demon lords, and the final boss level has been replaced with the secret level from the original, Limbo, which is basically two large levels crammed full of the tougher monsters. The levels in the final chapter look distinctly more plain with less set pieces such as cages, people empaled on poles, conveyor-belt walls of severed faces, etc.
But its still doom. And its still great fun, with 3 chapters, 24 levels and 4 difficulties. The contols are still fluid and intuitive (moreso thanks to the GBA itself), and it still has masses of gameplay, especially for a portable game.
If you buy any game for the GBA, make it this one.
Id give it 4.5 stars but they wont let me. So Ill just give it 5 stars.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 23Dec2002 | | |
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