Doom Classic Review
It’s here, its real and rocks.
Once I saw the Twitter update it was almost instinctive to hit the link and download even with the pretty hefty price tag (€5.49).
Id software’s uber classic Doom is now available on the app store. How does it play? Well like a dream …..after you master the idiosyncratic twitchy controls scheme. Movement is controlled by a rubbery control and fire button, there are other schemes but apart from switching to southpaw I wasn’t to impressed with the other more complicated lay outs. Doors are open by tap and weapons can be changed by giving doomguy a quick tap in the face.
There isn’t much I can say about Doom, it’s the same game you have played on a high end PC in 1995, Xbox Live, PSN and even free in its browser game version. It’s still tons of fun and as a portable title I think it really comes into it’s own. Co-op and multiplayer comes as standard and actually plays really well! It would be nice if there was a ranking system of some sort but who cares its deathmatch online on your Iphone!!
Your enjoyment of this title will really come down to your view of the control system so if you have doubts then it may well be worth waiting for a lite version before throwing down nearly six quid on the full version.
I feel it was worth it but my usual reaction to any app that price is a hardy gut laugh followed by a quick change of under pants.
controls look better made then the doom resurrection ipod game anyway
That resurrection thing was awful. I just sunk a few hours into it today again. Just figured out that the cheats for wolfenstein work with Doom to! Touch 4 fingers at once on screen and enter ''give''. Ziiiiing chainsaw time!