The best classic Doom game. Really improves upon the level design of the old games, but asks a lot of the player puzzle-wise compared to the original 2 games. Despite a few hard to figure out problems, the effect of the puzzles on the level designs feels fantastic and the game is a joy to play. Some of the best levels in the whole series are here.
Uma pérola esquecida.
Cara, eu jurava que Doom 64 era só um spinn-off besta e afins, mas acredite, o jogo é MUITO MUITO melhor do que eu achei que fosse.
Claro, ele tem alguns defeitos como o level desing ridículo dele e tudo mais, só que ainda assim é um jogo bom véi. Inclusive, se tornou um dos meus Doom's favoritos, sem sombra de dúvidas.
Cara, eu jurava que Doom 64 era só um spinn-off besta e afins, mas acredite, o jogo é MUITO MUITO melhor do que eu achei que fosse.
Claro, ele tem alguns defeitos como o level desing ridículo dele e tudo mais, só que ainda assim é um jogo bom véi. Inclusive, se tornou um dos meus Doom's favoritos, sem sombra de dúvidas.
This game is a tedious slog to get through but thank god for passwords so I could 100% it and never play it again lol (After beating the game ofc)
the atmosphere is sweet
just like any of the other classic doom titles, its fun until ur stuck and dont know where to go.
Completed 100% on nightmare difficulty including bonus stages
Fun well made game with plenty of challenge. Good oldschool game.
Fun well made game with plenty of challenge. Good oldschool game.
I feel like the classic DOOM formula was basically "if you've played one, you've played them all.” DOOM 64 fell perfectly into that trap for me; while playing, I couldn't help but feel like my mind was on repeat with moments from DOOM and DOOM II. It's not terrible, but I can definitely say I'm glad I got it as a free download with DOOM Eternal.
Enjoyable experience that scratches that retro FPS itch. Different enough from the first two Doom games that it is worth a play. When you consider the limitations the N64 had Doom 64 really continues the tradition of Doom games pushing the boundaries for what is possible. The level design towards the later levels gets incredibly clever and gives Doom 64 its own personality.
Not quite as good as the first 2 DOOM games, but I still had a good time with DOOM 64
A fun variation of retro doom style, I didn't enjoy it as much as the first two. The lack of reload animation on the shotguns made them unsatisfying to use.
The same "Doom 64" as before, but now with the benefit of being able to save in the middle of levels, which makes the game far less frustrating. Aubrey Hodges's soundtrack is wonderfully atmospheric.
Lost Souls are still the absolute worst.
Lost Souls are still the absolute worst.
A short but fun old school fps but you can easily get lost alot
Joguei recentemente pela GOG e entendi o porquê de ser tão aclamado. O jogo é bem frenético e direto ao ponto, faz bem o estilo de jogo daqueles que acham um saco a "lentidão" dos RPGs. Uma pena que me deu enjoo :(
Got it off Steam because it was a dollar. Still prefer Doom 1 & 2 over this version. Still better than Doom 3, I beat it a long time ago, never obtained all the keys for the Unmaker.
uh, take it or leave it i guess. mostly carried by the new art and sound design that is way more cohesive and atmospheric than the original two. unfortunately the levels blend together around the middle of the game (64 really likes its six-layer switch hunts) and some of the balance changes are genuine head-scratchers. like why is the pain elemental SO strong lol
Eu senti falta da OST mais rock dos antigos DOOM, mas entendo que quiseram fazer algo mais atmosférico. Mesmo assim, bonzão.
real doom 3
This review contains spoilers
So I'm not the biggest DOOM fan out there, but I do really enjoy what I've played of the series. Never beat DOOM (1993) and DOOM 2, but I highly respect them and have played through most of the levels in those games. I find the core formula a lot of fun, but certain annoying parts of DOOM 2 and DOOM (1993) prevented me from taking the time to beat them. DOOM 64 is one game I have been curious about for a while, so over the past few days I went ahead and actually beat it. I have been playing through the whole series after finishing DOOM (2016) a while back before I had a Backloggd account, but now 64 is the only classic DOOM I have actually beat. I may revisit the other two to finally finish them, but I imagine I will not review them here when I do since I feel like I would have nothing of real interest to say about them.
When I was playing through this game, one of the first things I noticed was that the tone is quite different from DOOM and DOOM 2. Visually, it carries a lot of that similar energy to the original duology, with the sprites having been recreated to fit the N64 while still being very faithful to the original designs. I really enjoy how everything looks, it feels like a natural evolution aside from how ludicrously dark it can get (good thing this version of the game has a brightness scroller). However, this time around, the atmosphere feels more horror focused. Not to imply DOOM (1993) and DOOM 2 didn't have horror elements, of course, but 64 seems to lean in a lot more on those elements with specific parts of the game, mainly the music. DOOM and DOOM 2 had a wide variety of music with a good variety of feelings they're meant to convey, from the catchy metal tunes of "At Doom's Gate" (E1M1) and "Kitchen Ace & Takin' Names" (E1M4), the almost orchestral sound of "Suspense" (E1M5), the atmospheric electronic vibe of "Demons on the Prey" (E1M7) and "Dark Halls" (E1M3), the masterful combination of hopelessness and disappointment found in "Sign of Evil" (ending theme of E1)...all of those were purely in the first episode of the first DOOM, its not even counting the more strange music DOOM 2 had in store, like the almost groovy sound of "The Healer Stalks" and the borderline silly vibe of "Between Levels". 64's music is overwhelmingly focused on a dark ambience intended to carry a persistent feeling of dread, with every single song in the OST being designed to carry this feeling. Spooky low-tone instruments playing in the background and a whole lot of distracting sound effects are what you'll hear if you have the music turned on in your playthrough. I respect that this game wanted to do something different, but I can't help but feel the soundtrack sucks away the personality this one could have had if it just kept doing what DOOM and DOOM 2 were already doing so well. Honestly a lot of it just blends in with each other.
The gameplay of DOOM 64 is pretty much the same as its predecessors. You don't need to reinvent the wheel when DOOM was the game that popularized the genre to begin with, so I got no complaints about that. All the same weapons from DOOM and DOOM 2 return: Pistol, Shotgun, Chainsaw, Super Shotgun, Chaingun, Plasma Gun, Rocket Launcher, and the always iconic BFG9000. This game does introduce one new weapon, though, and that's the Unmaker. Amusingly, the Unmaker didn't get an actual name until Eternal. When you get it in DOOM 64, you get some flavor text that reads: "What the !@#%* is this!" The Unmaker makes for a cool addition to the classic DOOM arsenal, but I didn't really use it a ton. One interesting thing about it is that it can actually be upgraded to be stronger. As far as core level design goes, it does feel like more of the same classic DOOM stuff with big rooms and exploration to do. I did notice some differences, though. For some reason this game absolutely loves Hell Knights and Barons of Hell, it throws them at you all the time and its a bit odd since I remember them not being all that common in DOOM's episodes (aside from Thy Flesh Consumed which I never beat) and most of what I played of DOOM 2 (never beat that game either tbh). I guess it's to make up for the game lacking three of the enemies from DOOM and DOOM 2: the Archvile, Chaingunner, and Revenant. Also, some enemies seem to be a bit stronger here than they were in the classic DOOM games. Biggest example is the Lost Souls, which were more of a minor annoyance before but are an absolute pain in the ass here. I could just be seeing differences where there are none but I do know that Lost Souls are much more irritating in DOOM 64. The change makes Pain Elementals one of the most annoying DOOM enemies I've ever encountered, and fighting a room full of them is a nightmare. This game does have one new regular enemy and a new boss. The Nightmare Imp is just an indigo imp visually but it attacks faster and runs quicker, and the Mother Demon is the final boss of the game. There's nothing really nightmarish about the Nightmare Imp and the Mother Demon is a tough boss fight. Another thing I noticed that's different here is that DOOM 64 is quite fond of just spawning enemies in once you interact with something, which can be irritating. They fade into the world out of nowhere. If you don't know where and when they spawn ahead of time, you can easily accidentally end up in arm's distance of a demon or just get destroyed. On the plus side, I noticed I actually used the Chainsaw this time around. I hardly ever used it in the first two games, but here it was a great tool for taking out Mancubus so long as there aren't too many ranged enemies around for you to mow 'em down. That's still a pretty niche use case, though. Unfortunately other enemies with a melee attack make it very tricky to use the Chainsaw without getting smacked for a chunk of your health in return. It's possible to kill plenty of stuff with the chainsaw, especially since it seems to have been given a damage boost, but its too difficult to be worth doing over just blasting demons unless you're out of ammo. Also, another quirk about the game is that sometimes enemies can just shoot you through the walls, which I noticed mostly in a specific segment of Spawned Fear (Map 18). Not a big deal, but its weird. You know what is a big deal? That final level. Apparently the only way to make it not insanely hard is to find all the secret levels, since you need keys from those levels to be able to shut down the portals. The secret levels are also the only way you can upgrade your Unmaker, which helps a lot in the fight. Honestly, that's just not fair to players like me that don't want to go out of their way to search every nook and cranny of a level and I've never had to find secrets in an FPS to make the levels not torture to play through, but hey it is still possible without the keys. I actually didn't die quite as much as I thought I would but it still sucked. I felt no guilt taking advantage of an exploit on Mother Demon because that fight is so dumb.
Overall, I feel like DOOM 64 is just "more DOOM", but the core formula of the series is so good that I see no real issue in that. I have a bunch of nitpicks about this game - nearly all of which I already mentioned here - and only a few genuine problems with it, but I feel it is great nonetheless and I did have fun with it. DOOM 64 gets a rock solid four stars from me.
When I was playing through this game, one of the first things I noticed was that the tone is quite different from DOOM and DOOM 2. Visually, it carries a lot of that similar energy to the original duology, with the sprites having been recreated to fit the N64 while still being very faithful to the original designs. I really enjoy how everything looks, it feels like a natural evolution aside from how ludicrously dark it can get (good thing this version of the game has a brightness scroller). However, this time around, the atmosphere feels more horror focused. Not to imply DOOM (1993) and DOOM 2 didn't have horror elements, of course, but 64 seems to lean in a lot more on those elements with specific parts of the game, mainly the music. DOOM and DOOM 2 had a wide variety of music with a good variety of feelings they're meant to convey, from the catchy metal tunes of "At Doom's Gate" (E1M1) and "Kitchen Ace & Takin' Names" (E1M4), the almost orchestral sound of "Suspense" (E1M5), the atmospheric electronic vibe of "Demons on the Prey" (E1M7) and "Dark Halls" (E1M3), the masterful combination of hopelessness and disappointment found in "Sign of Evil" (ending theme of E1)...all of those were purely in the first episode of the first DOOM, its not even counting the more strange music DOOM 2 had in store, like the almost groovy sound of "The Healer Stalks" and the borderline silly vibe of "Between Levels". 64's music is overwhelmingly focused on a dark ambience intended to carry a persistent feeling of dread, with every single song in the OST being designed to carry this feeling. Spooky low-tone instruments playing in the background and a whole lot of distracting sound effects are what you'll hear if you have the music turned on in your playthrough. I respect that this game wanted to do something different, but I can't help but feel the soundtrack sucks away the personality this one could have had if it just kept doing what DOOM and DOOM 2 were already doing so well. Honestly a lot of it just blends in with each other.
The gameplay of DOOM 64 is pretty much the same as its predecessors. You don't need to reinvent the wheel when DOOM was the game that popularized the genre to begin with, so I got no complaints about that. All the same weapons from DOOM and DOOM 2 return: Pistol, Shotgun, Chainsaw, Super Shotgun, Chaingun, Plasma Gun, Rocket Launcher, and the always iconic BFG9000. This game does introduce one new weapon, though, and that's the Unmaker. Amusingly, the Unmaker didn't get an actual name until Eternal. When you get it in DOOM 64, you get some flavor text that reads: "What the !@#%* is this!" The Unmaker makes for a cool addition to the classic DOOM arsenal, but I didn't really use it a ton. One interesting thing about it is that it can actually be upgraded to be stronger. As far as core level design goes, it does feel like more of the same classic DOOM stuff with big rooms and exploration to do. I did notice some differences, though. For some reason this game absolutely loves Hell Knights and Barons of Hell, it throws them at you all the time and its a bit odd since I remember them not being all that common in DOOM's episodes (aside from Thy Flesh Consumed which I never beat) and most of what I played of DOOM 2 (never beat that game either tbh). I guess it's to make up for the game lacking three of the enemies from DOOM and DOOM 2: the Archvile, Chaingunner, and Revenant. Also, some enemies seem to be a bit stronger here than they were in the classic DOOM games. Biggest example is the Lost Souls, which were more of a minor annoyance before but are an absolute pain in the ass here. I could just be seeing differences where there are none but I do know that Lost Souls are much more irritating in DOOM 64. The change makes Pain Elementals one of the most annoying DOOM enemies I've ever encountered, and fighting a room full of them is a nightmare. This game does have one new regular enemy and a new boss. The Nightmare Imp is just an indigo imp visually but it attacks faster and runs quicker, and the Mother Demon is the final boss of the game. There's nothing really nightmarish about the Nightmare Imp and the Mother Demon is a tough boss fight. Another thing I noticed that's different here is that DOOM 64 is quite fond of just spawning enemies in once you interact with something, which can be irritating. They fade into the world out of nowhere. If you don't know where and when they spawn ahead of time, you can easily accidentally end up in arm's distance of a demon or just get destroyed. On the plus side, I noticed I actually used the Chainsaw this time around. I hardly ever used it in the first two games, but here it was a great tool for taking out Mancubus so long as there aren't too many ranged enemies around for you to mow 'em down. That's still a pretty niche use case, though. Unfortunately other enemies with a melee attack make it very tricky to use the Chainsaw without getting smacked for a chunk of your health in return. It's possible to kill plenty of stuff with the chainsaw, especially since it seems to have been given a damage boost, but its too difficult to be worth doing over just blasting demons unless you're out of ammo. Also, another quirk about the game is that sometimes enemies can just shoot you through the walls, which I noticed mostly in a specific segment of Spawned Fear (Map 18). Not a big deal, but its weird. You know what is a big deal? That final level. Apparently the only way to make it not insanely hard is to find all the secret levels, since you need keys from those levels to be able to shut down the portals. The secret levels are also the only way you can upgrade your Unmaker, which helps a lot in the fight. Honestly, that's just not fair to players like me that don't want to go out of their way to search every nook and cranny of a level and I've never had to find secrets in an FPS to make the levels not torture to play through, but hey it is still possible without the keys. I actually didn't die quite as much as I thought I would but it still sucked. I felt no guilt taking advantage of an exploit on Mother Demon because that fight is so dumb.
Overall, I feel like DOOM 64 is just "more DOOM", but the core formula of the series is so good that I see no real issue in that. I have a bunch of nitpicks about this game - nearly all of which I already mentioned here - and only a few genuine problems with it, but I feel it is great nonetheless and I did have fun with it. DOOM 64 gets a rock solid four stars from me.
It's a pretty good game. Minus Map 21, 23, and 28. Final boss was ass until I chessed it.
Good game but it gets annoying sometimes and the way they did the final boss was a little dumb
eh.
Doom 64, while not an id production, improves upon the lighting and atmospheric elements of Doom for the PlayStation by building its own collection of unique levels which feel as enjoyable as mainline entries in the series, even if they can feel somewhat lesser to Doom and Doom II. Aubrey Hodges score especially lends this more "horror" leaning work into a fascinating 3D world of sci-fi and hellbound combat arenas often calling back to those created by id's level designers. Some of the enemy designs are great (Pain Elementals, Pinkies, and Cacodemons); some are not (Zombies, Imps, Spectres); but the overall design for a Nintendo 64 game (and the remaster which adds 8 more levels, unnecessary but enjoyable nonetheless) is more often than not impressive in comparison to other N64 games. Doom 64 may have been forgotten by time, so it's inspiring to see its resurgence with Doom Eternal to an essential game in the series—far more essential than fucking Final Doom.
One of the best in the classic trilogy off of pure level design alone. The style is unique and colorful, the Unmaker in an iconic addition to the roster, and the whole game's just got that classic Midway flare. The lack of Revenants and Archviles do lead to a greater use of Hell Knights and Arachnotrons, but the placement is smart. A classic...just don't play it on original hardware.
A step back for the Doom franchise. The levels are longer and require frequent pauses to fight large groups of enemies. Everything about this game has changed from Doom One and Two, including the graphics, guns, and enemies.
There is no story to speak of, but the gameplay is decent. However, the keys required to progress through the game are annoying and frustrating. The final boss, the mother of demons, is a worthy challenge, but ultimately just involves shooting her. Overall, if you're a hardcore Doom fan and want to beat every game in the series, then go for it. But otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.
There is no story to speak of, but the gameplay is decent. However, the keys required to progress through the game are annoying and frustrating. The final boss, the mother of demons, is a worthy challenge, but ultimately just involves shooting her. Overall, if you're a hardcore Doom fan and want to beat every game in the series, then go for it. But otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.
My favorite 2D Doom game, feels the most polished and balanced.
The TRUE DOOM III
Good god did this game need the remaster treatment. Super awesome, shame it flew under so many's radars for years
Idk man, the level design was kinda ass imo. I think it starts sort of fun but then quickly dips down into not being that much fun. The levels were confusing and I never felt satisfied beating them
C'est le véritable doom 3
Still a fun game, but probably my least favorite Doom so far.
Level design was very hit or miss, with a bunch of backtracking, random switches, and "gotcha" moments, but other then that it was pretty good
Level design was very hit or miss, with a bunch of backtracking, random switches, and "gotcha" moments, but other then that it was pretty good