#Doom 3 ducktape mod mod

It's like making Willy Wonka eat a celery stick. Making a Space Marine drive a crummy boat powered by a fan just seems insulting. When I remember that you don't get a shotgun until you get to Ravenholm, I give myself one anyway, because screw that.ДЄfter escaping City 17, I wind up deciding to skip the second half of the canal levels. When Metrocops start using machine guns, for example, I give myself Doom's chaingun. I try to also give myself new weapons when it feels appropriate.

#Doom 3 ducktape mod mod

Finding medkits feels a lot more urgent when you're hurt so bad your hair is bleeding.ДЄmmo for my Doom weapons, naturally, is not stocked in City 17, so I just spawn some for myself from the Garry's Mod menu when I run out. Instead of a percentage or a colored bar, you get to look at your sad mug streaked with blood, a pretty visceral reminder that it's not your health meter taking damage: it's your own face. Something else I notice: while it feels a little odd in this day and age to play a game where you're constantly staring at your own face, it does make your health quite a priority. It's like combining two tastes I love, bacon and chocolate, into one violent, historic mouthful of video game. It's also a genuinely neat experience: the sights and sounds of the throwback Doom weapons mixed with the atmosphere and enemies of Half-Life 2. It mostly works well: the weapons are effective and feel natural after a few minutes of play, though you have to be pretty darn precise with your aim for long-distance kills. (Weapons work on them too.) Oh, and that cop who tries to make me pick up a soda can and put it in the garbage? I saved the chainsaw for him.Д«efore long, I'm in the canals, fighting enemies who can actually fight back. I approach a couple citizens as well, just to see if weapons work on them too. What's this? Other cops, standing around doing nothing violent? Not on my watch! They die. That annoying flying camera robot gets a taste from my pistol. So, when I see a Metrocop shove a citizen, I punch him to death (the Metrocop, to be clear). Rather than wandering through the beginning of the game, helplessly watching as citizens are abused at the hands of the Metrocops, I can immediately right some wrongs by applying a healthy dose of SPACE VIOLENCE. Gordon Freeman didn't pick up a weapon until a good half-hour into Half-Life 2, but Doomguy is always packing a pistol, a chainsaw, and his fists. Hm? What? Who? Space Marine is skeptical.ДЄfter getting off the train in City 17, I realize how happy I am to be an angry, violent Space Marine instead of a befuddled, bespectacled scientist.

Specifically, I wanted to play through the entirety of the Half-Life 2 campaign, using only the gmDoom HUD and weapons. I also decided, instead of just playing around, to really play.

After watching a few weeks pass as bugs were squashed and updates were released, I decided it was finally time to pull-start this particular chainsaw and take it for a spin. Omri mentioned a mod called gmDoom last month, which allows you to bring the Doom experience, including weapons, enemies, HUD, and entities, into Garry's Mod.