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Doom Collector's Bundle

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This "Collectors Pack" is great for those that have not yet had the chance to play Doom. It includes Ultimate Doom (Doom 1 and an aditional mission) Doom 2 and Final Doom. All 3 games for less than 20 bucks! Thats a great deal, Doom is one of the best games of all time and those who haven't had the chance to play it at all can get all 3 games in this bundle and see what you're missing. Sure, they're "old games" but the thing about Doom is, to me, even today the games seem fresh when I pop them in and play them, they're definatly worth it. Check it out, if you like first person shooters like Quake, or Half Life then you're gonna love Doom.

Didn't matter if you owned a Macintosh or a Windows PC back in the early-to-mid 90's, Doom was it! The pixelated monsters and the bloody, dark, hellish levels and atmosphere was nothing like you had ever seen on your 13" monitor. The Midi soundtrack, the possibilities, the action, the fun, the immersion, Doom is what started it all in the FPS genre.

Doom is a nostalgic romp for those of us who got high on 3D graphics when they were first introduced back in the day, and if only they could release a boxed version tweaked to run on today's PC's without hassle, it'd be even better. If you buy this set, be sure to check out jdoom.com and download the 3D patches for the game to enjoy it in a tolerable 3D mode for today's PC's.

I don't know that younger people will feel as strongly about Doom I&II and Ultimate Doom as someone like myself and others in their late 20's and early 30's, but if you want to know what it was like back then, check it out.

Doom is a classic that compares to what Pac Man, Donkey Kong and Pong did for video games.

I first played Doom when I was about thirteen or so on my Dad's 386 computer. We didn't have a sound card so we had to use PC sound and to get the game to run at playable speeds the screen size approached that of a postage stamp. It totally blew my mind anyway, and has continued to do so to this day.

What can I even say? The original. The very best. Yes, it's flagrantly simplistic at the core (shoot the bad guys, grab the keycards, exit level, repeat), yes the graphics are dated, and yes indeed the whole Demonic Invasion thing is a little cheesy. None of that matters. What matters is that the overloaded-with-enemies gameplay here is rock solid and it's one Hell of a lot of fun.

The Demonic lineup is extraordinarily balanced. Chaingunners, shotgunners, and plain ol' zombies are easy kills but have hitscan weapons you can't really dodge, Demons do lots of damage and are too tough to be taken down quickly with just your pump shotgun, but once you find the chainsaw (and in Doom II and Final Doom, the double-barrelled shotgun) you're golden. Barons of Hell are big, tough, and pretty damaging if they hit you. Et Cetera. There's really no massive gaps in bad guy prowess levels - unlike Halo, where on Legendary grunts were a joke but elites made me piss myself with fear.

Ah, the weapons. The perfect lineup. The fist is super weak until you grab the Berserk Pack, at which point it becomes an ammo-free way to splatter bad guys. The chainsaw is a fantastic addition. The pistol is perfectly balanced for the early levels, it's enough to get the job done against zombies but not much else, keeping you on edge until you get more shotgun shells. The shotgun itself is a workhorse, and in Doom II the mighty double-barrelled shotgun is perhaps the best weapon ever devised in a video game. It'll drop several weaker enemies in one blast if they're crowded together, drop demons in one shot, and drop midline to upper tier enemies in three to six shots, but that takes time. The chaingun makes pistol bullets useful against crowds of weaker enemies, saving you precious shells and cells, the rocket launcher provides the big bangs, the plasma gun liquefies everything in it's path, and the BFG 9000 is just the mother of all gaming firearms. This is the perfect weapon scheme. Every gun is simple, to the point, and of the maximum-damage-minimum-time school of thought.

Now, the games themselves. Ultimate Doom is old-school, but sort of simplistic compared to later Dooms. Thy Flesh Consumed is hard as Hell. Doom II is amazing. The level design gets better, more unique, and more sinister - traps get sprung on the player when you least expect them, enemies teleport in on you with alarming frequency, and the last boss is absurdly creative. The new enemies fit right in (and indeed became instant Doom standards) and the combat shotgun is, as I said, simply wonderful. Final Doom is insanely difficult but sooo satisfying to complete on Ultra Violence difficulty.

Everyone is complaining about the difficult controls or difficulty with Doom95, and they've got legitimate gripes. However, the fix for both problems is actually very simple. User-created programs like ZDoom, Doom Legacy, and BOOM! enable mouselook, limited 3D acceleration, and fully remappable controls. These programs also work flawlessly in Windows XP and are available on the internet for free download. Google the program names, they're easy to find on various websites. All you need are the original .wad files for the programs to run the game, which are what you've got on this compilation CD.

Another note, I don't know what people are talking about when they say the program CD doesn't come with a jewel case. Mine did, and it's pretty nifty looking. I did buy this compilation when it first came out three years ago though, and the guys at Electronic Boutique told me it was a limited run when I picked it up (I have no idea whether that's true or not, it's just what they told me). Maybe Activision dropped the jewel case from re-issues?

In short, you can't go wrong with Doom. It's the original and best for a reason. Give it a shot. This is one of those games that will always be around because it's just that good. I've been playing Doom for ten years now, and it's a fair bet that people will be playing it ten years from now. That will be partly because Doom was so revolutionary when it came out, and partly because the game is just that much fun.

Vigorously recommended.

First of all I won't tell you about the game, because we all know it's the best, I'll tell you about what comes in the package. Nothing, save the cd. No printed manual, no artwork, no key guide, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A COLLECTOR'S EDITION!... And if you plan on playing this with a mouse you'd better think again because doom95 (the windows 95 launcher) doesn't support usb mouses and practically all new computers come with usb mouses. However the great free program jdoom (jdoom.newdoom.com)adds mouse support, improved graphics, quake style console, and even updated polygonal graphics! The horrible part about this is that the average customer won't even think to download jdoom... The games themselves are great but the company didn't put any effort into this. This is in no way a "collector's edition" it's just repackaged old software.

Of course you have to take a step back to the time it was published, but for the time period it was released it was the most revolutionary game ever made. Wolfenstein 3D came out first, and it was a good game, but did any game make you jump out of your seat like Doom? Plus, at the time it came out - what was the competition? Commander Keen? Epic Pinball? Doom was the first game that compelled people to rush out and buy a computer - simply for the purpose of playing this game!

Remember kiddies, there was no such thing as 3D acceleration when this game came out. In fact, video cards were rarely looked at when purchasing a computer. Now aside from processor power, it's probably the most important piece of hardware gamers look at. Before Doom came out, the PC wasn't even considered a viable gaming platform. That's saying a lot!

Don't forget, Id Software also revolutionized the entire idea of shareware. Companies like Apogee pioneered the idea but they included maybe one level of a game in their shareware. Id was the first to distribute shareware that was good enough to be considered a game in itself. The entire first episode was given out - for free! By the time you were finished, you *had* to buy the remaining two levels. It turned the gaming industry's arrogant "no return" policy on its head. Decision to purchase a game was (finally) based on the strength of the demo instead of slick ads or clever packaging.

It's a bummer this contains "only" Doom. As this was a DOS game, I would suggest Activision (Id or whoever owns the license now) come up with a real collector's bundle containing Doom, Doom 2, the Master Levels, etc... and revamp the startup software so it'll run good on current PC's. If they were really ambitious, they could even revamp the game to allow internet play.

That said, Doom is the best PC game ever made, not only for the game itself but for its impact on the computer industry.

Doom is a very good first person shooter and next to wolf3D it is the greatest game ever made. Wolf3D is the grand daddy of morden 3D games but it was Doom which made the world sit and take notice. Without Doom there would be no multiplayer tournaments, I think doom is the game which started the multiplayer games with co-operative and deathmatch gameplay. You play a soldier sent to another planet to destroy the aliens and save the world, The gameplay is very good and the controls are very easy to use. The length of all the games are very good. Finally i think an OpenGL patch for Doom called GLDoom was made by a gamer using the doom source code. I read that on the net a long time ago. They could have included that patch in this edition. If you like doom then get Heretic, Hexen and Wolfenstein3D you will like them too.

I'm a big Doom fan, and I'm glad to see it back on the shelves in any form, but this bundle is nothing more than a wasted opportunity. It's The Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, and Final Doom thrown onto a CD with some PDFs instead of tangible manuals. That's it. No extras, no features, no new levels, no new anything. Generally "Collector's Edition"s have some sort of exclusive content which help justify their name; this package would be more accurately described as "Repackaged Edition."

To make this a worthwhile purchase, Activision could have done any number of things. They could have included the Master Levels; that's an omission I just can't understand, since they're not available in retail anymore and the CD certainly has lots of extra space. They could have included the early alphas and beta versions of Doom to show what the game looked like during its development. They could have included any of the Doom posters which were made, or a pewter Doom-monster figurine, or an updated version of the Book of id which was included in the id Anthology package years ago, or scans of concept drawings for the game, or, most notably, any of the new Windows or hardware-accelerated versions of the Doom executable which have been made since the source code was released years ago. Sadly, the package has none of these.

If you've never played any of the Dooms, then this certainly is worth buying simply because it's cheap. For people like me who own the games, however, it is nothing more than a waste of twenty bucks.

After watching all the hype for the new Doom movie I wanted to see what the game was like. I purchased this at Wal Mart for 9.99. From someone who never plays a lot of pc games it's a good simple first person shooter. You don't have to devote hours to this for it to be a fun game. I only hope that the newest version is just as good. It can be easily saved so you don't have to play all the levels over again. That was a big sticking point with me on many games. I refused to buy a lot of them unless I read the reviews first.

I'd have to rate this 5 out of 5 because it is like an action comic book novel.

Doom was and still is a great game. You get all the orginal Dooms on the CD. A warning to you windows XP/2000 users, the mouse wil not work. (...) I highly recomend getting it. (You will need the Wad's on the CD).

I only have one bad thing to say about the bundle: You don't get any of the CD tracks that came with the orginal Doom!

On the good side: I'm having more fun playing it than I did Doom3. I know it sounds crazy but it is true. Doom1 just had better level designers behind it.

All in all if you played the orginal Doom I would recommend getting this just for kicks.

So what if Activision just threw all of the DOOM games on a CD
Now you don't have to worry about where are your floppys or separate CD's Now you've got all your 3 favorite games on one CD
They will never get erased, & you'll keep it longer.
DOOM Collector's Edition includes the first original DOOM, DOOM II and FINAL DOOM! The levels are great, the gameplay and the story is awesome!
Maybe the graphics aren't good enough for you, but hey this games were realesed about 10 years ago! Back then this was the best game!!!
If you got an old PC, why throw it away, put some old DOS or Windows 95/98 games on it, and go back in the 90's
I bought this game from Wal-Mart for only $10.00
It was the best deal!!!
I played it on my 366 MHz laptop with 128 megabytes of RAM and 14.1 GIGS of HD space with Win. ME
And it worked great!
So just buy this game and enjoy first-person shooter, destroy all the monsters and save the human race in this awesome game!