Doom co-creator John Romero has marked the seminal FPS’ thirtieth anniversary by releasing his second unofficial marketing campaign for the hell-shooter. Sigil 2 follows on from Romero’s earlier enlargement for the Doom engine – launched in 2019 for its quarter-century celebrations – by including 9 new ranges which you can go and seize without cost proper now.
Sigil 2 acts as a direct sequel to Sigil, which itself appeared to increase the story of Doom past its climactic struggle towards the Spidermastermind in E4M8 – albeit as an unofficial fifth episode.
Each campaigns span 9 ranges created to run as a megawad within the unique Doom engine, with Romero’s web site suggesting GZDoom as a straightforward solution to boot up the megawad – the format utilized by each Doom and Doom 2 for bundles of ranges and different recordsdata. (You’ll want a replica of Doom to run GZDoom, too.) The degrees additionally work as deathmatch maps in the event you run them within the multiplayer mode.
Following Sigil’s rating by Buckethead, Sigil 2 has an unique heavy steel soundtrack by THORR. The OST backs a set of ranges that appear to be devoted to the unique of their crushing issue. (“Welcome to Hell,” Romero replied to 1 participant who known as the episode “fairly brutal”.)
Even Duke Nukem co-creator George Broussard obtained in on the motion from his fellow nineties FPS luminary, saying: “It is brilliantly enjoyable and laborious. Would have been the “Darkish Souls of FPS video games” if it shipped in 1993!”
Glad thirtieth birthday, DOOM. I am grateful to have been part of this unimaginable staff. Thanks for enjoying our video games, and thanks for preserving DOOM alive, all these a few years. pic.twitter.com/ZBzGqdXXBo
— John Romero 🤘🏽 (@romero) December 10, 2023
Additionally true to OG Doom are numerous secrets and techniques dotted all through the degrees, together with a fireblu texture – a reference to a preferred meme within the Doom group – hidden someplace in each degree that gamers might want to discover and shoot to open a secret room and obtain 100% completion.
“As we speak’s instruments are superb,” Romero stated in our latest look again at Doom’s 30 years. “It’s humorous, as a result of I consider that Doom degree design has nonetheless not been exhausted. I’m nonetheless doing new issues.”
Sigil 2 is free to obtain from Romero’s web site, which additionally affords some fancy (and never free) bodily editions with different goodies like paintings, a shotgun shell USB stick and even a signed floppy disk with the marketing campaign on, in the event you’re after that 1993 nostalgia. Glad birthday, Doom.
