Many of my favorite Doom WADs — STRAIN, Scythe, Apostasy on Amalthea — are a bit of a mess. They’re works of undeniable (if undisciplined) genius, yet full of strange creative choices and huge fluctuations in quality. The mod we’re about to talk about may not be a Doom WAD, but it follows in that proud tradition just the same. It’s a profound, landmark achievement for its respective modding scene… but at the same time, the edges could have used a good amount more sanding. I’ve wanted to get into Quake mods for a long, long time… but moving into a new mod
Tag: Quake
Dimension of the Boomed
Barring some shocking upheaval… I have found my 2018 WAD of the year. Dimension of the Boomed is Doom meets Quake — two of my favorite things together at last — but Boomed isn’t just Quake wallpaper pasted over the old Doom paint. And it’s not one of those uninspired “Game X in Game Y” conversions you used to see all the time either. It’s so much more than the sum of its two more obvious parts. It’s the perfect balance of the grim, haunting look of Quake, and the fast, violent action of Doom, sure — but those alone do not a good WAD