Doom II

Doom II: Hell on Earth, released September 30, 1994, is the sequel to Doom.

Story
The player once again takes the role of the Doomguy, who, after being stranded on Phobos and subsequently fighting his way out of Deimos and Hell itself, returns home to Earth &mdash; only to find that it too has fallen victim to the hellish invasion. His previous adventure on the Mars moon bases has been retconned to defeating the alien invasion.

With all the major cities in the world in ruins, the remaining leaders plan to use spacecraft to transport the survivors of Earth's population. However, the starport is the only way for the ships to depart and the demons have protected it with a force field. All of humanity's remaining soldiers make a desperate assault on the starport, but eventually they are decimated and only the player remains. He continuous on doggedly and selflessly, despite knowing that he will be left behind in order to save the rest of his race.

Once the Marine accomplishes this, he is free to live out the rest of his time alone on Earth while humanity hopefully continues on elsewhere. But along the way, he begins to learn how he might finally thwart the invasion once and for all...



Gameplay
Doom II is not a dramatically different but it has sex with your mom

Reviews and sales
Doom II went on to sell two million copies, making it the highest-selling id Software game to date. There was praise for its many new and varied enemies, and its innovative map design which aimed to be more non-linear than its predecessor. It also introduced the FPS multi-player world to MAP07: Dead Simple, which is regarded as one of the best deathmatch maps ever published.

In general, Doom II was well-received by the gaming community but was regarded in some areas as a disappointment. Its lack of major new features and its fairly homogeneous, sometimes drab level design were the biggest complaints. This was especially in comparisons made to later games such as Star Wars: Dark Forces and Duke Nukem 3D. Some have considered Doom II an expansion pack rather than a true sequel, akin to the future Serious Sam: The Second Encounter to Serious Sam.

Unlike the original game, Doom II had no demo or shareware versions, and was available only through retail stores. Doom II was thus also known as the commercial version of the game, while the registered version was only available via mail order. (In 1995, however, the original was upgraded and also received a retail release.) Like Doom, Doom II received licensed ports after the fact to numerous additional platforms, including the Classic Mac, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance.

Current records
The Compet-N episode records for Doom II are:

TAS runs

 * 30uv1617
 * 30uv1441

Levels
The levels can be divided up into three episode-like sections, defined by their corresponding sky texture and separated by a textual intermission in addition to the standard intermission screen; as well as two secret levels. Additional textual interludes appear before level 7 (which splits the first sky-based section into two parts), before each of the secret levels, and at the conclusion of the game.

MAP01 to MAP06; subterranean/starport levels:


 * Level 1: Entryway
 * Level 2: Underhalls
 * Level 3: The Gantlet
 * Level 4: The Focus
 * Level 5: The Waste Tunnels
 * Level 6: The Crusher

MAP07 to MAP11; hellish outpost levels:


 * Level 7: Dead Simple
 * Level 8: Tricks and Traps
 * Level 9: The Pit
 * Level 10: Refueling Base
 * Level 11: 'O' of Destruction!1


 * 1: Known as Circle of Death on the intermission screen.

MAP12 to MAP20; city levels:


 * Level 12: The Factory
 * Level 13: Downtown
 * Level 14: The Inmost Dens
 * Level 15: Industrial Zone
 * Level 16: Suburbs
 * Level 17: Tenements
 * Level 18: The Courtyard
 * Level 19: The Citadel
 * Level 20: Gotcha!

MAP21 to MAP30; inside hell levels:


 * Level 21: Nirvana
 * Level 22: The Catacombs
 * Level 23: Barrels o' Fun
 * Level 24: The Chasm
 * Level 25: Bloodfalls
 * Level 26: The Abandoned Mines
 * Level 27: Monster Condo
 * Level 28: The Spirit World
 * Level 29: The Living End
 * Level 30: Icon of Sin

MAP31</tt> and MAP32</tt>; secret levels:


 * Level 31: Wolfenstein
 * Level 32: Grosse

MAP33</tt>; bonus Xbox level:


 * Level 33: Betray