

Maybe they're passé now Id Software are doing 'glory kills' in official Doom? But yes, still a whole lot of gibs and death animations in this one.īrutal Fate is built on GZDoom, a modified version of the Doom engine that's used by many mods, including Brutal Doom. I was surprised by one thing I didn't see: no execution animations, one of Brutal Doom's most famous features. Brutal Doom already played quite differently to ye olde Doom so sure, continue down that path under a whole new name. Those there city maps with AI squadmates do remind me of Brutal Doom's story campaign, which has plenty of both. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. As you can see in the trailer below, it does look a fair bit like Brutal Doom. Stop me if you've heard this one before: interdimensional demons have invaded a space colony, and it's up to space marines to squish them. Over the weekend he revealed Brutal Fate, a new retro-styled FPS for you to litter with viscera.

(ex.After years of ripping and tearing Doom with the infamous mod Brutal Doom, creator Marcos "Sergeant Mark IV" Abenante is preparing to launch a brand new game of his own. What it does do, other mods I can think of can do it far better. Once the novelty wears off, what's left is a somewhat unimpressive gameplay mod that packs a lot of. It did provide an attraction for new people simply by being so over-the-top and " EXTREME". Oh, and obscenely loud jelly squelching sounds whenever you shoot anything because blood works like that.Īll in all it got popular among the mainstream mostly because of shock value and an effective Youtube and ModDB advertising campaign of pretty much " HEY GUYS, REMEMBER DOOM? IT'S BACK, MORE BRUTAL, HOW IT WAS MEANT TO BE". You could say "why don't you just not use those things", but I'd ask "then what does BD really offer besides those things" and it's pretty much just: Rolling? ADS? Headshots that make even Barons trivial to kill? I admit the fatalities were pretty cool for the first while, but just got drawn-out and stale pretty quick.

It's just a kind of a meh "enhancement" novelty mod that adds a ton of shit I never asked for.
