As a wise man once said, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it…just lightly modify it to your taste. Doom was an extremely popular game that basically invented the first person shooter. So of course a year later there was gonna be a sequel. But would this sequel live up to the original?

Definitely

You play as doomguy yet again on his mission to defeat the same demons you fought in the first game. Your mission is to save earth and destroy hell once and for all. The plot is pretty standard just like its predecessor but it works for what the game is going for. It’s also set in a continuous sequence of linked levels unlike the first game where you have three different chapters. Now onto the gameplay…

The gameplay is similar to the first game. There aren’t many graphical improvements or anything but there are a few added additions. For starters, the levels are much bigger and a lot more ambitious than the previous game. There are some new enemies and with them comes a new weapons. The new enemies can be pretty tough and overall they are really cool additions. The new weapon is the super shotgun and oh man, is it super. You can now shoot two barrels at once and it works excellently against the tougher enemies. You also have a new power up known as the megasphere which improves your health and armour to the maximum of 200%. Overall the game has some neat additions that do make it stand out to the original doom and it works really well.

So…is doom II a good sequel? It sure is. Coming from the original doom it’s quite the improvement. The new levels are very ambitious and the new additions are fun to use. The gunplay is still as fast and fun as it always was with that gripping level of brutality. The music is also as hardcore as ever. Like come on, you can’t have doom without metal music (we don’t talk about the ps1 port even though it works kinda well).

Great sequel, ambitious levels, cool additions, still fun gunplay, music will always be hardcore, fan made levels are kinda ambitious