And if you’ve missed the Spider Mastermind from Doom, great news. The nimble Arch-Vile bursts you into flames from afar, never misses, and will also ressurect fallen demons to fight beside him. Take the Mancubus, a fat ugly git who showers you with a stream of flaming rockets. You’ll need every shell you can find though, because Doom 2 has a bunch of new monsters to deal with. There’s only one extra weapon here, raising the total number of firearms to seven. The levels are overall just more interesting, and, about halfway onward, more spooky. Another is set in the middle of a huge industrial city, with buildings you can enter and explore.

One level for instance, Tricks and Traps, is devoted entirely towards screwing with you. Puzzles are tougher, secrets are more mischievously hidden, and traps are all the more devious. And while the Hell from the first Doom was cool, the one here is truly surreal.ĭoom II is also set outdoors more often, with levels that can take tens of minutes to traverse entirely. The campaign is still divided among three major themes – you start inside a spaceport, then continue through a besieged urban environment, and finally enter Hell in its appropriately sinister form. There are no episodes this time, but instead the game flows as one stream of linear levels. Armed with your worthless pistol and brass knuckles, you venture once again as Doom Guy to beat the invasion and drive the demons back.Īlthough Doom 2 is essentially the same game with new levels, monsters and one mean double-barreled shotgun, the game is structured slightly differently.

Naturally, some fool forgot to close the dimensional portal, leaving a gateway for all those evil denizens to invade the planet and take over. Having sent the armies of the damned back to Hell, you return to Earth for peace and quiet. As such, you won’t see anything drastically different here – it’s Doom all over again, but with more of the stuff that made it great in the first place. It retains the ‘more is better’ approach that we’ve seen in Wolfenstein’s Spear of Destiny, with the obvious difference that Spear wasn’t marketed as a sequel. While Doom was a revolutionary game, Doom II: Hell on Earth was merely an extension of the previous game’s success.

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