Id's 'DOOM II RPG' Comes to the iPhone
posted by Blake Patterson on February 8th, 2010 7:36 PM EST in $3.99, Role-Playing, Shooter, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Today, an iPhone port of the well-reviewed mobile title DOOM II RPG [App Store] from id Software LLC appeared in the App Store. Doom II RPG was created by the same team that brought us Wolfenstein RPG and offers a turn-based take on the Doom universe:
The forces of Hell have invaded our dimension once again, and only you can stop them from their ultimate goal—conquering Earth!
A mysterious distress signal calls your team—two hardened Marines and a rookie scientist—to a Union Aerospace Corporation research facility on Earth’s Moon, but you were unprepared for what awaits you. The forces of Hell itself have taken hold of the station and its inhabitants! Zombies and demonic monsters roam the halls, killing all who cross their path. Your backup squad is dead. Mysterious scientists conspire against you. Even the facility’s AI cannot be trusted. You are being hunted from all sides. Now, you must fight to survive, and try to stop the invasion—and uncover the truth—by any means available. The fate of all humanity is at stake!
The game challenges you to choose one of three available characters through which to take on a veritable menagerie of Hell-spawned beasts. Cacodemons, Cyberdemons, Spider Masterminds — they're all here for your goring enjoyment.
Among the game's features as listed by id:
- Battle through 9 maps, spanning the Moon, Earth, and Hell itself. Over 8 hours of gameplay!
- Over a dozen unique weapons to find, plus improvised weapons such as Sentry Bots or even plumbing fixtures.
- Eleven different enemy types—each with multiple, increasingly-powerful forms—plus four bosses.
- Auto-mapping feature and mission-tracking PDA functions ensure you’ll never be lost again.
- Customizable controls; change the size, style, and placement of the control inputs.
- Three levels of difficulty will give players of all skill levels a challenge.
- Detailed graphics and complex levels which take advantage of the power of the iPhone.
As with Wolfenstein RPG, the pace of Doom II RPG game is entirely different than the first person shooter versions that we all know. We'll offer a closer look in time, while first impressions are being collected in our forums.
App Store Link: DOOM II RPG, $3.99
wow unexpected!! but very happy
After buying (and loving) Undercroft I planned on geting Wolfenstein RPG (quest lite was terrible
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But now… should I get doom or wolfenstein?
both man its not that expensive
Pass on wolfenstien. It was pretty fun, but very easy and very short. The original Doom RPG was 5x longer. Hopefully this one is close to that in length.
Get both! Different story, different characters, different weapons.
I wouldn't say Wolfenstein is short at all, specially comparing it to the original doom rpg.. they are about the same
um, no. I'll take Doom2 as an in app purchase to Doom classic or a seperate app. This is LAME, FPS' are just that, FPS' not RPGs
um, this is an rpg from a first-person perspective. you take turns shooting each other. sheesh.
You got it all wrong… please go back to playing NOVA.
Doom has been done before as a turn based game. Its called DoomRL, and it rocks. Its free on Windows. Wish it would come to Mac.
Wolfenstein RPG was awesome, I am sure this is too
very cool, hope it rawks like wsrpg. bought already..
I was NOT expecting this at all.. I thought they'd release Orcs and Elves first. But anyway.. can't wait to play it. I played the original doomrpg in my crappy motorola V276 (still have it xD), and i loved it. Also loved wolfenstein on iphone, pretty cool too :]
i'll wait for the real doom 2 levels to arrive for doom classic; not convinced by all this rpg stuff.
Bought! Anyone hear about Orcs and Elves? Is that coming too?
Just because this says Doom 2 RPG does not mean they're not going to make Doom 2 classic, they are different games.
Wolfenstein RPG was shallow; this will be shallow.