Survival Mod Total Chaos Pretties And Uglifies Doom II
No guns today, DoomGuy
Earlier this week I wrote about DayZ mod for Doom which you can play right now, but here's another, potentially more ambitious still survival remix of id's finest hour. Total Chaos for Doom II is a massively-modified ( to the point of being unrecognisable) singleplayer open world survival horror mod, which uses GZDoom (engine) and Zandronum (multiplayer infrastructure) and - GASP! - features no guns.
But... but... is this not like curry without beer, a Florida vacation without Disney World, or the Velvet Underground without feedback?
There are fires and traps and DIY blunt weapons "but close combat is not recommended." It's about avoidance, and turning the environment to your aid, apparently.
This is an extreme modification to Doom II on the visual front too, albeit an OpenGL-supporting port of its open source. The dev's even shown off what 'straight' Doom II would look like in his menacingly darkened mod:
N.B. no actual Pinkie Demons in the mod itself. However, yes, that is indeed a video camera UI. Total Chaos Doom 2 is doing the Dead Rising thing as well as survival, to some degree. Here's the dev's summary, in fact:
The mod is an open world survival horror where players are dropped on an island with a video camera to explore the deadly surroundings. The island was once run by a community of coal miners which one day suddenly disappeared, leaving behind the abandoned concrete jungle to waste away. Total Chaos is a sandbox mod, so the player has freedom of choice of either finding the lost community, surviving on their own against the islands deadly forces, or explore the island to uncover its most hidden secrets.
Spoiler: zombies. Like that wasn't a given.
No release date as yet, though the dev hopes there'll be a beta before 2014 breathes its last. There are regular updates and tons of (really quite impressive) screenshots on the site, though.