However, today’s article isn’t a review of “Brutal Doom”.Īfter seeing this footage of a new set of “Doom II” levels that has been specifically designed for “Brutal Doom”, I thought that I’d give the “ Brutal Doom – Hell On Earth Starter Pack” a try. Personally, I played it for a while in 2013 ( and briefly again in 2015 too) but, once the novelty value wore off, I went back to playing the “ordinary” versions of the old “Doom” games. And, yes, this is much more difficult than it might sound.įans of “Doom” on the internet often either seem to absolutely love or absolutely hate “Brutal Doom”. And, yes, I’ve tried not to include screenshots of any of the really gruesome parts of the game in this review.
“Brutal Doom” is probably the goriest computer game ever made.
I’m not exaggerating about the “gruesome” part. In a nutshell, it makes the classic “Doom” games a lot faster, slightly more modern, somewhat more challenging, a bit more militaristic and a lot more visceral/intense/gruesome than traditional “Doom”. In modern times, many theologians have downplayed the images of horror and stressed that the worst part of hell is not the snakes and the fire (which are likely not literal) but rather, being separated from God.If you’ve played any of the classic “Doom” games within the past six years, then you’ve probably heard of a famous mod called “Brutal Doom” before. and a red-hot iron in their eyes." The rich who refused the orphans and widows were made to wear "tattered and filthy" garments and to walk endlessly over "pebbles sharper than swords or any spit, red-hot." Those who blasphemed and slandered the righteous were forced to " their own lips. Murderers were "cast into a certain strait place, full of evil snakes, and smitten by those beasts" while the souls of the murdered looked on with satisfaction. Each punishment in hell is fitted to the crime. and the earth itself blooming with unfading flowers and full of spices and plants, fair-flowering and incorruptible and bearing blessed fruit," the author gets into the juicy stuff. One of the most colorful visions of hell is recorded in the Apocalypse of Peter, which was widely known in Christian circles at the time, though not considered part of the biblical canon.Īfter describing heaven as "exceeding bright with light. The first real graphic descriptions of hell and its torments come outside of the New Testament canon in the Christian apocryphal texts of the second century C.E.
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