The unique Doom not too long ago celebrated its thirtieth anniversary, making me really feel fairly outdated. In addition to being an early blueprint for the FPS style, id Software program’s iconic shooter can also be a well-liked modding playground. Generally, these mods harken again to even older gaming days.

Modders Gokuma and Kontra Kommando have crafted a love letter to an absolute traditional ’80s slasher movie. Particularly, they’ve turned Doom into Friday the thirteenth. Extra particularly nonetheless, they’ve based mostly it on the NES adaptation, turning the 1989 side-scrolling sport right into a first-person shooter.

Set in Camp Crystal Lake – as you’d count on – the mod brings again Jason Voorhees to “slaughter all those who would dare to step foot” into the camp. It’s as much as Doomguy to cease him, presumably. Presently, there’s no full launch date, however you may obtain the present beta from ModDB to strive it out.

Life earlier than Doom

It’s fascinating to see this type of mod. Whereas it may have been simply set within the Friday the thirteenth universe the least bit, the creators selected to breathe new life (resurrect, if you’ll) right into a sport that’s even older than Doom.

Loads has actually modified over the a long time for the plucky FPS. Thirty years is a very long time in any type of media, however to see id Software program’s legendary 1993 launch hold coming again for extra is a robust testomony to only how vital the sport has been to the trade.

There are such a lot of Doom mods on the market, a few of which change up the system immensely, to not point out the numerous methods of porting the sport. There’s not likely anything prefer it within the online game world, so hats off to the studio for bringing it to us.