Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Doom Mod Review : Infernal Attack




 Infernal Attack is a MASSIVE Doom Randomizer mod released on moddb a few years ago. It boasts 600 new enemies to fight, 200 guns, and more.  I regularly play doom with it and often mix it with nameless rpg lite so that I can enjoy tons of new enemies/guns plus rpg mechanics.

Infernal attack is quite the controversial mod, thanks to the fact that it borrowed some stuff from other mods.  The amount of mods it "steals" from is quite large, coming down to it ripping stuff from brutal doom, project brutality, Doom the roguelike arsenal, Complex Doom, Shades of Doom, Realm 667 shuffle and many others.

Despite that and despite the obvious bugginess the mod has, which I will get to later, the mod is still quite good. Not phenominal, but definitely one of the better randomizer mods out there.  There are a lot of new unique guns and enemies in it and they help make it a fresh experience, and stuff such as the complex doom guns, the drla guns, the shades of doom, hxrtc, and ream667 enemies put in one mod together, help to make it feel like a really nice compilation of great stuff in one mod,  which is needed in this day and age, where a lot of mods have unique stuff only.

It does have a big downside, it's buggy as hell. Some enemies break, others have badly set up sprites, and more. It is not too noticeable at first, but play 30 or so maps in it and you will notice it eventually. However, the whole thing being a massive ripoff, to me is quite a moot point.

Lots of people are trashing this mod.  It isn't that bad. It does take stuff from other mods but most mods do! In fact the total amount of guns I could find that I recognized from other mods, is really small compared to the total amount of guns in the mod. Only 19 or so. guns are based on other mods the rest are either realm667 stuff or original material.  Now for the enemies. Many are from other mods but not all. A lot out of that 600 are original enemies not found anywhere else, so that makes this mod less of a ripoff.

Overall infernal attack is a very cool mod, worthy of an 8/10