#Deus vult 2 doom full#

ItвЂ™s a warzone, and it requires a level head to survive it. I love it because itвЂ™s total unadulterated madness - but if you let the madness get to you, youвЂ™re very likely to run face-first into a gruesome death. The cavern set-piece is one of my favorite battles, not just in Deus Vult, but in Doom WADs. YouвЂ™ll be taking fire from all directions, from above and behind and even below at times, and if youвЂ™re anything like me, your first instinct will be to panic. About a quarter of the way into Deus Vult (or at the beginning of the second map if youвЂ™re playing it that way) youвЂ™ll find yourself dropped into the bowels of Hell, and the focus of the entire second map is the sprawling, molten cavern you find there, filled to the brim with baddies. Rather than go on and on about all the cool places this journey will take you, or all the trials along the way - rather than mention the colossal cathedral or the river of fire or the Eye of Sauron (really, thatвЂ™s a thing) - IвЂ™m just going to bring up this one place. Like I said - itвЂ™s tough, and itвЂ™s tough in enough different ways that youвЂ™ll always be on edge. It doesnвЂ™t really pan out when you trigger a trap that fills a room with monsters to the point that you canвЂ™t even move. If youвЂ™re one of those folks who вЂњsaves it until I need it,вЂќ you may want to unlearn that habit for this WAD. The first time was at a battle that outright requires the invulnerability sphere. I played on the second-easiest difficulty and still bought it more times than I can count. More likely not hanging on at all, actually. Every battle from there on is a fight for your life, and believe me - youвЂ™ll spend most of that time hanging on by a thread. Your first massive imp horde pops up right after that and thereвЂ™s no easing up in the insanity after that point. The demons get you in the mood for some action, and then a few surprisingly dangerous spectres and hell knights in the dark beat you around the noggin and let you know this is going to be anything but a cakewalk. Innocent for Doom, anyway: punching some demons to death.Дeus Vult pulls its punches (har har) like this for a total of two rooms. The complete Deus Vult is one impressive, awe-inspiring construction. But I admit itвЂ™s pretty rad to see the whole thing in one piece, with no вЂњloading screensвЂќ between major sections.

I opted for the split maps only because I liked the music to switch up every so often rather than listening to the same midi for two hours. Going in, then, you just have to decide which way you want to play through the WAD.

#Deus vult 2 doom full#

Map05 is the full Deus Vult experience, while 01 through 04 are that map split into four convenient, more manageable chunks. While weвЂ™re at it - I generally refer to Deus Vult as a map, but itвЂ™s actually five. ItвЂ™s a map with a boatload of variety and a crazy amount of creativity on display. Sure, youвЂ™re always up against wall-to-wall enemies, and youвЂ™re almost always using the rocket launcher (or in later areas, the BFG), but the encounters rarely feel similar.

The way the map keeps things interesting is by generally changing up the nature and flow of the encounters rather than the size of the opposition force.

In Deus Vult, Huy Pham doesnвЂ™t really escape those issues I tend to have with slaughter maps, but he also doesnвЂ™t put all of his eggs in one basket. ItвЂ™s also hard to ramp up the tension and the stakes when the player starts off by wiping out roomfuls of monsters with the rocket launcher. Anything weaker than the super shotgun collects dust. They consistently throw dozens, if not hundreds, of enemies at you - battles that necessitate the use of DoomвЂs high-end weapons almost exclusively. Slaughter maps, by their nature, tend to be the opposite of that. I like an even distribution of enemy types and a WAD that gives you reason to use the whole array of weapons at your disposal. I like more of a slow burn - a steady build to an epic climax. Slaughter maps arenвЂ™t really my cup of tea.