What led to your interest in designing Doom mods? The Sarge was kind enough to dissect some of the game's changes both huge and nuanced, explain how Brutal Doom caters to equally players who prefer a moodier, slower pace, as well as those who revel in sending demons back to hell in doggy bags, and share his thoughts on his mod's excessive violence stealing the spotlight from its more impressive features.
Its feature set is so thorough, its changes so sweeping and evolutionary, that John Romero said back in 2013 that id 'would've destroyed the game industry' had id Software released it instead of the original Doom back in the early 1990s.Īs a Brutal Doom buff, I was excited to catch up with the mod's creator, Marcos 'Sergeant Mark IV' Abenante. Wipe away all the mutilated limbs and buckets of blood, and Brutal Doom has a lot more to offer. Firing a BFG blast into a horde of Imps triggers an explosion of blood that makes Johnny Depp's death scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street look tame. Trailers announcing new versions of the mod, first published in 2010, drive this impression home.
You'd be forgiven for playing Brutal Doom for the first time and coming away with the impression that you just played the most gratuitous, over-the-top violent video game ever made.
