Going to Hell: DOOM II and the Descent Into Chaos

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Going to Hell: DOOM II and the Descent Into Chaos

Added: 18.07.2015 14:19 | 2 views | 0 comments

KSD: The 13th level in DOOM II is called Downtown." It's big, set in a bizarre facsimile of an urban centre where the streets are rendered in lumpy, oatmeal-textured stonework, red brick-work apartment facades are entered through pneumatic metal doors, and the skyline is filled with blazing fires peeking out behind a haze of apocalyptic smog. Downtown is, in many ways, the quintessential level of id Software's 1994 sequel. Its networks of hidden passages, demon-filled corridors, and well-concealed keycards may echo superficial elements from the first DOOM, but the core of its design is a marked departure from what came before.