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This is a sub-page of Doom II: Hell on Earth (PC). Seven official DOS versions of Doom II exist: 1.666, 1.666 German, 1.7, 1.7a, 1.8, 1.8 French, and 1.9. The German version of 1.666 uses a different executable and its copy of DOOM2.WAD omits the MAP31 and MAP32 secret levels. 1.7a only changes the phone number listed on the ENDOOM text screen displayed in DOS after exiting the game. Created using GZDoom in Boom format. First person shooter - Doom II: Hell on Earth (mod). 83KB; 3; 98; ExtraMana - Doom II Mod. Uploaded: 11 Nov 2015. Last Update: 04 Nov 2015. Author: ExtraMana. This is just a basic wad I'm making. I might even start up making a mega wad after this but right now I want some people to.
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Doom II: Hell on Earth is the first sequel to Doom, released by id Software on September 30, 1994. Featuring 32 levels in a single linear episode, Doom II continues Doom's story, seeing the player returning to Earth to single-handedly fight off an invasion of the planet by demons.
Doom II includes several gameplay enhancements over the original Doom. Most notable are the introduction of several new monster types, plus an additional weapon (the super shotgun). While the original game was distributed via shareware and mail order (to purchase the full game), Doom II was the first game developed by id Software to be sold commercially in stores, with cooperation of distributor GT Interactive. This represented a change in business model for id that would later be adopted more widely.
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Story[edit]
The Ultimate Doom's story ended with the Marine protagonist's defeat of the second Spider Mastermind in a gateway between Hell and Earth. Stepping through a portal to Earth which opens after the creature's death, however, there is a cliffhanger ending - it is discovered that the demons which invaded the Mars moonbases have now invaded Earth as well.
After Earth's major cities are left in ruins by the attack, the human survivors await evacuation from a starport, but the demons have surrounded it with a barrier of flames. All of humanity's remaining soldiers make a desperate assault on the starport, but eventually they are annihilated and only the Marine remains.
Fighting through the starport, the Marine manages to lower the demonic defenses, allowing the survivors to escape to the safety of space. Left behind, he at first prepares for death, but soon receives a radio message from the ships' commanders that they have pinpointed the source of the demonic invasion not far from his current location. He fights through the ravaged city, where Hell's reality is once again beginning to merge with our own, twisting and corrupting the heavily damaged ruins. After finding the portal to Hell and returning once more to the underworld, the Marine eventually confronts the ultimate source of the hellspawn, a gigantic demon. Pumping his rockets into the creature's exposed brain, it dies, devastating miles of Hell's surface in all directions in its death throes, ending the invasion and giving humanity a chance to rebuild.
Gameplay[edit]
Doom II CD from the Depths of Doom collection.
In terms of gameplay, Doom II is similar to the first game, adding only incremental changes to its formula in the form of new monsters and a new weapon. To progress, the player must still navigate non-linear levels, find keys, and unlock new areas while defending against an onslaught of demons. Technologically and graphically the game is identical, though due to more complicated levels and larger fights the base system requirements for the game were higher.
One of Doom II's most significant changes over its predecessor is that it takes place over a single linear sequence of levels - the episode-based structure of the first game was abandoned, as was the map shown on intermission screens; this means that the player no longer has to find new weapons at the start of each episode. Occasional textual interludes are used to advance the story, in the same fashion as the first game's episode endings.
While Doom II's level design is ostensibly based on structures and locations on Earth, in practice it retains much of the abstract design of the first game. Early levels present a techbase theme representing the military starport. The mid-game presents levels with an urban city theme that the player navigates attempting to find the origin of the demonic invasion. The later levels are intended to represent Hell merging with reality, and therefore have a style reminiscent of the Inferno episode of the first game.
Doom II's new monsters include the heavy weapon dude, Hell knight, mancubus, revenant, arachnotron, pain elemental, arch-vile, and Icon of Sin. The SS trooper from Wolfenstein 3D appears in a cameo in two secret levels which reproduce maps from Wolfenstein 3D. Commander Keen also appears, albeit in effigy. According to Sandy Petersen, the new monsters of Doom II had originally been intended for the first game and had been left incomplete - this is corroborated by the timing of their sculpting by Gregor Punchatz as well.[1]
Also introduced is the super shotgun, a more powerful double barreled version of the shotgun from the first game. The Megasphere is additionally introduced as a more powerful version of the Supercharge power up, offering a maximum amount of both health and armor.
Reviews and sales[edit]
Doom II sold over two million copies, the most sales of any id Software game at the time. The new and varied enemies, and its innovative non-linear level design were praised by critics. While well-received, the game was regarded by some as a disappointment due to the lack of major new features and boring level design. It was released around the same time as Star Wars: Dark Forces and Duke Nukem 3D which presented more obvious enhancements to the genre.
There was no shareware version of Doom II released and it was only sold in retail stores. Internally Doom II is referred to as the 'commercial' version, though an enhanced version of the first game was also later re-released in stores as The Ultimate Doom. Official ports were made to various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, and Xbox.
Levels[edit]
Doom II's levels are divided into three 'episodes', though these are not official. The sky texture for each episode is different, and an intermission screen describes the progress in story in transitioning between them. There are also two secret levels. There are further story interludes before level 7, before each of the secret levels, and after finishing the game. Old versions of SETUP.EXE give names for these episodes, though this was later removed.
Episode 1: 'The Space Station'
- Level 2: Underhalls(Exit to secret level; Xbox only)
- Level 11: 'O' of Destruction!1
- 1: Known as Circle of Death on the intermission screen.
Episode 2: 'The City'
- Level 15: Industrial Zone(Exit to secret level)
Episode 3: 'Hell'
Secret levels:
- Level 31: Wolfenstein2(Exit to super secret level)
- Level 32: Grosse2
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- 2: These two levels do not appear in the German version.
Bonus Xbox level:
The new episode, No Rest for the Living, originally designed for the Xbox 360 version:
- Level 4: Hell Mountain(Exit to secret level)
- Level 9: March of the Demons(Secret level)
Weapons[edit]
Doom II manual
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- The super shotgun is a new weapon which Doom II introduced to the series.
Monsters[edit]
Doom II includes all the monsters from Doom:
Doom II also has new monsters, which are:
- The final boss
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Legal issues in Germany[edit]
According to the German Strafgesetzbuch section 86a, the usage of unconstitutional symbols is forbidden outside of certain contexts such as research, teaching and others. Because the two secret maps Wolfenstein and Grosse use swastikas, the German version does not contain these maps to prevent the game from being the subject of search and seizure procedures (as Wolfenstein 3-D had been). This means that it is forbidden to sell, hire or otherwise give the game to anybody, although merely owning the game is legal.
On 31 December 1994 (date of official announcement), however, the game was put on the Index of the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften (Medien), which means only that the game can not be advertised, sold, rented, or otherwise given to minors.This restriction applies to all versions of the game, except for the Game Boy Advance version.
The German release is engineversion 1.666, and doom2.wad is a little bit smaller than is standard. Under MS-DOS, when the player attempts to use the level warp cheat for either of the secret maps, the game instantly crashes.
On the 4th of august 2011 the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien deleted Doom from the Index on request by ZeniMax Media.[2][dead link]
However, the official announcement state, that not all versions are delisted.
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'Lediglich die amerikanische Fassung von 'Doom II - Hell on Earth' wurde in der Liste belassen, da diese zwei zusätzliche Level mit Darstellungen aus dem indizierten und bundesweit beschlagnahmten Spiel 'Wolfenstein 3D' enthält.'
Translated: 'Only the American version of 'Doom II - Hell on Earth' has been left in the list, because it contains two additional levels with representations from the indexed and nationwide-seized 'Wolfenstein 3D'.
Speedrunning[edit]
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Current records[edit]
The Compet-N episode records for Doom II are:
Run | Time | Player | Date | File | Notes |
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UV episode, MAP01-MAP10 | 0:05:44 | Looper | 2011-02-14 | 0544uv01.zip | |
UV episode, MAP11-MAP20 | 0:09:52 | Radek Pecka | 2003-08-08 | 0952uv11.zip | |
UV episode, MAP21-MAP30 | 0:08:59 | Radek Pecka | 2004-09-28 | 0859uv21.zip | |
UV run | 0:21:55 | Looper | 2014-12-14 | 30uv2155.zip | |
NM episode, MAP01-MAP10 | 0:07:11 | Juho Ruohonen (ocelot) | 2003-09-02 | 0711nm01.zip | |
NM episode, MAP11-MAP20 | 0:11:19 | Drew DeVore (stx-Vile) | 2002-03-24 | 1119nm11.zip | |
NM episode, MAP21-MAP30 | 0:13:35 | Vincent Catalaá | 2002-07-22 | 1335nm21.zip | |
NM run | 0:29:39 | Henning Skogstø | 2009-07-23 | 30nm2939.zip | |
UV max episode, MAP01-MAP10 | 0:25:50 | Radek Pecka | 2001-06-15 | 2550uv01.zip | |
UV max episode, MAP11-MAP20 | 0:47:10 | Radek Pecka | 2002-04-18 | 4710uv11.zip | |
UV max episode, MAP21-MAP30 | 0:39:16 | Radek Pecka | 2002-08-29 | 3916uv21.zip | |
UV max run | 1:53:18 | Radek Pecka | 2002-04-22 | 30uvmax4.zip | |
NS episode, MAP01-MAP10 | 0:14:25 | Drew DeVore (stx-Vile) | 2002-01-27 | 1425ns01.zip | |
NS episode, MAP11-MAP20 | 0:23:48 | Drew DeVore (stx-Vile) | 2002-01-11 | 2348ns11.zip | |
NS episode, MAP21-MAP30 | 0:18:27 | Jan Vida (Doomgeek) | 2002-07-15 | 1827ns21.zip | |
NS run | 0:56:00 | Drew DeVore (stx-Vile) | 2004-05-30 | 30ns5600.zip | |
UV -fast episode, MAP01-MAP10 | 0:25:52 | Ian Sabourin | 2002-04-27 | 2552fa01.zip | |
UV -fast episode, MAP11-MAP20 | 0:57:44 | Radek Pecka | 2002-08-31 | 5744fa11.zip | |
UV -fast episode, MAP21-MAP30 | 1:01:35 | Vincent Catalaá | 2001-02-15 | 6135fa21.zip | |
UV -fast run | 2:08:04 | Radek Pecka | 2003-06-24 | 30famax2.zip | |
UV Tyson episode, MAP01-MAP10 | 1:44:45 | Looper | 2011-11-29 | 10445ty1.zip |
The data was last verified in its entirety on May 10, 2013.
TAS runs[edit]
See also[edit]
- Doom, Final Doom
- Officially licensed ports of Doom games to consoles and non-DOS computers
Trivia[edit]
- Various screenshots on the back cover of the original Doom II game box display scenery and an arachnotron sprite which are not found in the officially released game. These were likely screenshots from a pre-release version of Doom II which had differing level structure and graphics than what was included in the official commercial release. These unconventional screenshots have been later used in various Doom II re-releases, including the Doom95 repackaging in 1995, the Steam release in 2007 and on id Software's own Doom II page.
- The Doom II cover art was drawn by occult/fantasy artist Gerald Brom.
Sources[edit]
- This article incorporates text from the open-content Wikipedia online encyclopedia article Doom II.
External links[edit]
- id Software's Doom II site (archived ?)
- Level design credits, from Lee Killough's page (archived ?)
- Poster[dead link] of the Doom II cover art
- Doom II manual on Steam
- Doom II at Compet-n
- Doom II full-game runs at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive
- Top-down perspective view of all Doom II levels by Ian Albert
References[edit]
Doom 2 Hell On Earth Walkthrough
- ↑Saral, Mahmut (5 December 2018). 'An interview with legendary Sandy Petersen (Call of Cthulhu, Doom, Quake, Age of Empires and much more!).'Donanım Günlüğü. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ↑Announcement of the BPjM (german)
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