Saturday, June 13, 2009

Review 3 - EWeps.wad

Even seasoned players who’ve survived battle after battle and have faced just about every monstrosity that the gullet of Hell can spit out in your face will want an easier game. Practically a “break”. The problem, though, lies in the fact that many DOOM players don’t know about add-on wads and will simply type in the God Mode cheat and will subsequently cause the Hell spawn to piss their pants when they realize they don’t stand a fighting chance of taking out the player. Although they still die trying to take you out, which really makes me admire them, the horrible ugly beasts that they are.

But anyway, I’m digressing. This week I’m here to talk about an add-on pack that won’t make the monsters piss in their pants. Why? Oh, because they’ll be turned into a smoking pile of raw red meat before they even have the chance to be scared!

EWeps.wad basically replaces all the DOOM weapons and arms the player with the sort of weapons that would create red mist where there was formally monster spawn. Examples of these are the Uzi that replaces the pistol and has a higher rate of fire than Skulltag’s minigun, or the rocket launcher that launches about 2 rockets per second. Of course, players that aren’t very good with rockets may want to avoid this weapon since they’ll have a high chance of becoming as burnt and unrecognizable a corpse as the monsters who you took down with you.

Oh, and did I mention that when EWeps.wad is loaded the player has unlimited ammo? Poor monsters; I almost feel sorry for them; except for the revenants from Hell Revealed 2 because those bastards deserve every goddamn bullet that is fired at them….where was I?
Oh, yes: the ammo. Well, ammo is unlimited: hurray for you! Not so spectacular for the unfortunate monsters who, due to the conscription in Hell, are forced to battle an insane player who’s armed to the teeth with weapons that will outclass them in a way that they’ll almost with that the game engine would allow them to kill themselves…at least it would be less painful for them and would leave a more recognizable corpse.

Multiplayer is a fun experience when using EWeps though it seems to have a few balance issues. For one, even without picking up other weapons and fending only with the basic weapon that you’re given when you start, you’re quite capable of turning the other player(s) into Swiss cheese in under 3 seconds. After all, all it takes is one player hiding in a corner near a door for the game to get boring rather quickly. Anybody who goes through the door will find pieces of themselves both on the floor and on the wall before they even have a chance to get a good shot at the other player. Sure it’s gonna be surprising at first and the original idea was good, but how long will it take for this (at first) awesome idea to become predictable and expected in a way that would make it very, very boring for the person who dies all the time without having a fair chance of taking out the other?

Grades
  • New content is the main aspect in this wad. The new weapons look awesome, I have to say. Many of them are taken from other games like “Shadow Warrior” For the new content, this wad scores a 7.

  • We can practically day that difficulty-wise, this is the opposite of Hell Revealed 2. This is almost too easy and the difficulty is not a challenging aspect. In fact, I think that this should not even be graded. I’ll give it a N/A.

  • Gameplay is fairly simple in this game. Sadistic players may find EWeps very enjoyable and a great way of relieving stress because you shoot at monsters that, essentially, don’t even have a chance to fight back. Still, the gameplay is fun scoring this an 8.
  • As stated before, the multiplayer in EWeps is enjoyable but it is fairly limited. It will probably get very old very fast on game modes like deathmatch. Co-op is even more unfair (on the fiends! They barely have a chance against one player; imagine against more than one!!), 6 points is the maximum that EWeps can score on multiplayer.

  • Architechture will also get an N/A because there are no new levels or textures.

    7+8+6 = 21
    21/3 = 7

    EWeps.wad gets a 7 as a final mark. It’s a great add-on wad if you want to play DOOM in a different way or, more likely, are a sadistic, heartless, inhuman bastard that want to orphan little baby cacodemons like Hissy here:

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