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You have Peanut Butter, you have Jelly … hmmm

March 24th, 2009 by Manic

Sometimes when you put two things together, the results are just magical. Two of my favorite things from the 90s were the PC games Diablo and Doom. In one of the games you battle demons from hell, and in the other game you battle demons from hell … IN SPACE! So in quite possibly the most epic mashup that I have ever seen, someone has put Doom in the game style of Diablo. The game is called Doom: Fall of Mars and it is still in Pre-Beta form right now, but its still very awesome.

I don’t have particularly high expectations of the final game, the mere concept it enough to make me smile, but it surprisingly good in its current form. The has all of the animations and references to little things in the original Doom which makes the memories flood back. Blue health bottles and solders that collapse into a bloody piles is just awesome. The funny part is that I always disliked playing the characters in Diablo that use ranged attacks, but for some reason the gun feels really cool here.

On a small side note, I discovered this game through the site Rock, Paper Shotgun which is quickly becoming one of my favorite new sites.