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'''TNT: Evilution''', released in June 1996, forms one half of [[Final Doom]], a commercial product which consists of two 32-level [[IWAD]]s (the other being [[The Plutonia Experiment]]), similar to ''[[Doom II]]''. The "TNT" in the title stands for "The New Technology."
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'''TNT: Evilution''', released in June 1996, forms one half of [[Final Doom]], a commercial product which consists of two 32-level [[IWAD]]s (the other being [[The Plutonia Experiment]]), similar to ''[[Doom II]]''. The "TNT" in the title stands for "The New Technology" and is also the name of the [[TeamTNT|mapping team]] who created Evilution.
  
 
TNT: Evilution was completed in November 1995, and was to have been released for free. However, a publishing deal was brokered by [[John Romero]], resulting in the commercial release of Final Doom by [[id Software]]. As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it is still on sale. [http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-final/]
 
TNT: Evilution was completed in November 1995, and was to have been released for free. However, a publishing deal was brokered by [[John Romero]], resulting in the commercial release of Final Doom by [[id Software]]. As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it is still on sale. [http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-final/]

Revision as of 12:49, 27 September 2007

Final Doom - TNT: Evilution title screen

TNT: Evilution, released in June 1996, forms one half of Final Doom, a commercial product which consists of two 32-level IWADs (the other being The Plutonia Experiment), similar to Doom II. The "TNT" in the title stands for "The New Technology" and is also the name of the mapping team who created Evilution.

TNT: Evilution was completed in November 1995, and was to have been released for free. However, a publishing deal was brokered by John Romero, resulting in the commercial release of Final Doom by id Software. As of 2024, it is still on sale. [1]

The commercialisation of TNT: Evilution caused a certain amount of controversy amongst the Doom community, and Evilution is consequently one of Doomworld's "Top 10 Infamous WADs", albeit not for reasons of gameplay or level design. Evilution has a much more tech feel than Plutonia, whose floor design tends more toward the hell feel.

Story

In TNT: Evilution the UAC once again are intent on developing and experimenting with dimensional gateway technology. They set up a base on Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, with a solid detachment of space marines for protection. The marines do their job well: when the first experimental gateway is opened they annihilate the forces of Hell. Research continues with all security measures zeroed in on the gateway.

Later, the yearly supply ship comes earlier than expected, and looks strange and unusually large on the radar. The personnel of the base go out to behold the terrible truth: it is a spaceship from Hell, built of steel, stone, flesh, bone and corruption. The ship's enormous gates open to unleash a rain of demons on the base. Quickly, the whole base is overrun, and everyone is slain or zombified.

The Doomguy, now in command of the marine deployment, has been away on a walk, and has thus escaped death or zombification. After being attacked by an imp he rushes back to the base, where he sees the demonic spaceship still hovering above it and realizes what has happened. Then he swears that he will seek revenge for his slain troops, and sets out to slay as many evil creatures as possible.

Levels

As in Doom II, the levels are divided up into three sets, separated by a textual intermission in addition to the standard intermission screen; as well as two secret levels. (Additional textual interludes appear before levels 7, 31, and 32, and at the end of the game.) The authors of each map were listed by Ty Halderman in a post at the Doomworld forums in 2004. Several maps were shared between multiple authors. [2]

First "episode" (experimental labs levels):

Second "episode" (military base levels):

Third "episode" (nighttime levels):

Final "episode" (hell levels):

Secret levels:

Speedrunning

Current records

The Compet-N episode records for TNT are:

Run Time Player Date File Notes
UV Episode, MAP01-MAP10 15:58 Drew "stx-Vile" DeVore 2002-08-28 1558ev01.zip
UV Episode, MAP11-MAP20 13:30 Drew "stx-Vile" DeVore 2002-09-08 1330ev11.zip
UV Episode, MAP21-MAP30 15:18 Drew "stx-Vile" DeVore 2003-05-08 1519ev21.zip
UV Run 55:34 Drew "stx-Vile" DeVore 2002-02-17 30ev5534.zip
NM Episode, MAP01-MAP10 1
NM Episode, MAP11-MAP20 24:41 Xit Vono 2002-08-14 2441tn11.zip
NM Episode, MAP21-MAP30 1
NM Run 1
UV Max Episode, MAP01-MAP10 61:54 Serge "Never_Again" Marudov 2003-06-26 6154ev01.zip
UV Max Episode, MAP11-MAP20 1
UV Max Episode, MAP21-MAP30 1
UV Max Run 1
NS Episode, MAP01-MAP10 1
NS Episode, MAP11-MAP20 1
NS Episode, MAP21-MAP30 1
NS Run 1
UV -fast Episode, MAP01-MAP10 1
UV -fast Episode, MAP11-MAP20 1
UV -fast Episode, MAP21-MAP30 1
UV -fast Run 1
  1. Uncompleted as of the most recent Compet-N database update.

TAS runs

File specifications

TNT:Evilution is contained in an IWAD file named TNT.WAD. It is 18195736 bytes in size and contains 3101 entries. It has the following hashes:

MD5 4e158d9953c79ccf97bd0663244cc6b6
SHA-1 9fbc66aedef7fe3bae0986cdb9323d2b8db4c9d3
CRC32 903dcc27

Sources

  • This article incorporates text from the open-content Wikipedia online encyclopedia article Final Doom.

External links