Admittedly, a lot of my problems with this wad is that it's a Doom 1 wad. That means a smaller enemy roster than what I'm used to and no super shotgun, although I mitigated that problem by using a weapon mod.

I'm also not a big fan of huge levels with big enemy counts. Even if I was tearing through them with a cool shotgun and assault rifle, it got exhausting quickly. I got through four levels and wanted to drop the playthrough. I feel even more confident in the opinion that this wasn't a great idea for a community wad, in the end.

The thing about Doom 2 In Name Only is that the concept came out better in that version. Doom 2's levels had very specific names that were barely reflected in the levels itself. In the first Doom, levels like Command Control and Central Processing have very tech-basey names so the level the mappers make for those levels are just bigger, more detailed techbases.

I was really looking forward to this one but quickly grew impatient. This is probably really good in someone's eyes– that person isn't me.

Reviewed on Apr 24, 2024


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