/vr/ - Retro Games

FDA + Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ptpnSI0sQ

The biggest takeaway from Breakdown by Nervewar is how good it looks. It doesn't use thousands of sectors or lots of ZDoom effects. What it does do is stay true to it's theme and execute it well. You know you've done something right when the player can accurately infer the story accurately without reading the readme.

The map is touted as a short and difficult map however not for the usual reasons. When I saw the monster count after reading that it's a challenging map I was expecting archviles and revenants around every corner. This was not the case. Rather, the difficulty came from the lack of health and ammo. You feel like you're trying to scrape by rather than sprinting into rooms spamming SSG blasts at anything that moves. The fact that it uses low tier monsters exclusively sets the map up nicely to (hopefully) be the first map in a mini-episode.

This is a fun map that looks really good. Be sure to grab it via the link below and have some good old fashioned Doom fun.

Download: http://nervewar.net/doom