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This Doom II beat 'em up mod lets you punch and fling demons around

Kicking demons off Earth with a generous application of bullets is swell, sure. A bit impersonal though, right? Thanks to this new Doom II mod, the Doomslayerguy can turn hell's residents into pools of blood with his own two fists. Doom Fighters turns yon classic FPS into a third-person brawler where you can uppercut and chuck baddies all over the place. You can snag it right now or just appreciate the excellent biff baffing demon slapping in this trailer.

Doom 2 has been out for a long time, and the Doom modding community is still endlessly creative with finding ways to add to, change, or completely remake the classic series of gory FPS games. Other modders have other goals in mind, however. There's a new mod out called 'Doom 2 but the guns look bad,' which replaces all the weapon artwork in Doom 2 with a version that looks like it was made in Microsoft Paint, probably because it was.

'Doom 2 but the guns look bad' doesn't touch anything else in Doom 2, it just makes the guns look bad. Modder TechIguess explains on the ModDB page: "Yup, I literally just took Doom 2 and redrew the weapon models to make them look worse." If you were to judge the mod by how well it accomplishes the goals the modder set out for it, it's a smashing success: all these guns look extremely bad.

Take the chaingun, for instance. Normally it's shown as a series of silver barrels bound together toward the muzzles, with hand-drawn lighting effects showing that it's made of reflective metal. The modded version looks like an icon for a fence.

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Send Thatcher back to Hell in this new Doom 2 mod today

Following a short delay caused by Tennent's Lager (actual true story), Margaret Thatcher has returned from Hell to menace us once more. Thankfully, one doomed space marine will stand up and venture into the tenth circle of Hell (aka the UK) to put the reviled British prime minister down for good. Thatcher's Techbase is its name, and Doom 2 is the game you'll need to play this free mod now it's out. It is quite the thing, and even has a custom soundtrack from Paradise Killer's composer.

There's a YouTube channel dedicated to recreating classic games using a very unusual medium - cardboard - and it's more than a little impressive. The channel, named simply Games Made of Cardboard, has captured the essence of a whole bunch of retro titles via this very manual and creative medium, and its creator Bill Thorpe has now unveiled the latest: Doom 2 made of cardboard.

Describing Doom 2's latest port as his "most ambitious and creative project to date" and a "personal tribute to one of my most treasured games of all time", the creator explains that the project took them an eye-watering nine months to complete, adding he's "both happy and relieved to have completed it". After nine months and plenty of hard work - as you can see through the various 'making of'-style videos of it on the channel - it's easy to see why, but the final result is worth it.

The clip below showcases the final thing - Doom 2 as played via cardboard. The classic FPS game's levels are recreated painstakingly, with combat encounters, gun and destruction effects, and even Doom Guy's snarling (and sometimes bloody) avatar faithfully remade. Not to mention, John Romero himself has jumped into the fun, recreating his role as the famous 'Romero's Head' Doom 2 easter egg.

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Doom 2 goes Warhammer 40k in this full conversion mod

Doom has always had a bit of that Warhammer 40,000-style grimdark science fiction too it, and this mod makes that influence a bit more literal. Trench Foot is a full conversion Doom 2 mod that turns the FPS game into a bloody hellscape of religious idolatry. Well, moreso than usual.

An early version was released this week by creator Mr. Moon, letting you play a full level of demon-hunting action. The premise is simple: you're a religious zealot battling on the frontlines against a demon-worshiping cult. The backdrop feels similar to any World War 1 game or movie, lots of concrete and wood between makeshift bases and trenches. Rotting corpses are strewn everywhere in the dreary landmass, stuck eternally beneath a stormy sky. Such Doom, much gloom.

Enemies are either green-eyed soldiers in uniform, or yellow-eyed flying mutations. Your shotgun, handgun, and machine-gun deals with them all the same. "As you can probably guess I'm going for a grimdark. dieselpunk, 40k Siege of Vraks kind of atmosphere," the description on ModDB reads. "Putting you in the role of a fanatical religious zealot on the front lines of an apocalyptic war against demon worshiping degenerate cultists." The Siege of Vraks was a 17-year-long war between the Imperium of Man and the Forces of Chaos to take back the planet of Vraks Prime. Literally all of the non-military population of Vraks Prime died in the crossfire, so whatever story Trench Foot tells, don't hold out for that happy ending.

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DOOM II News

This Doom II beat 'em up mod lets you punch and fling demons around

This Doom 2 mod replaces the guns with terrible MS Paint drawings

Send Thatcher back to Hell in this new Doom 2 mod today

Here's Doom 2 made entirely out of cardboard (and John Romero)

Doom 2 goes Warhammer 40k in this full conversion mod