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Doom (GBA) | 
 enlarge | From: Activision
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £16.95
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 7562
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: action-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 15 - 18 years
Operating System: Game Boy Advance
EAN: 5030917014642
ASIN: B00005N5F7
Release Date: November 16, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: NEW- BOX DAMGED FROM STORAGE- GAME MINT CONDITION - NOT SEALED. UK PAL GAME AND DELIVERED VIA ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS 24 HOUR DISPATCH
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If you don't know what Doom is, you must be one of those weirdoes that had something better to do with their time in the summer of 1993 than play PC games. Doom is one of the most influential games of all time and popularised the whole first-person shoot-'em-up genre, and is thus the spiritual grandaddy of classics such as Quake, Half-Life, GoldenEye and even the recent Halo. Indeed, the major draw for this portable version is the cloying wave of nostalgia it brings to hardcore gamers as they set about the hordes of hell with a shotgun and a chain saw. This is an almost-perfect conversion of the original (or at least the original running on an average speed PC of the time) that even manages to include a four-player death match and a cooperative two-player mode. The music is the same, the level design is the same and best of all the gameplay is the same, with strafing working surprisingly well on the GBA's shoulder buttons. The only problem with the game, other than the inexplicable use of green blood even though it's got a 15 rating, is that the graphics can be a bit jerky in places. Which is presumably why the developers have had to ditch the two huge end-of-level bosses from the second and third episodes. In general, though, this is a technical tour de force that will have any remaining GBA doubters reaching for their wallets. --David Jenkins
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
Back to the Hell that spawned you... April 29, 2007
John McDonnell (Widnes, England)
DooM is reason enough to buy a GBA. It is a phenomenal game, one that (in the opinion of a console gun-bunny) demands the D-pad. I know plenty of old-schoolers will say the Mouse is better, but I know what I like.
This game has it all... well, almost. It's not so much the original DooM as a modified Playstation version. Levels such as the Tower of Babel aren't here, both the Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind are not included, and I'm pretty sure a few of the levels are taken from the Playstation version, not the PC one. That said, all weapons and power-ups are present, there's at least one Secret level (The Military Base) has survived the conversion. If this had been a direct-from-PC port, it'd be perfect.
Truly, there is no better way to pass the time when travelling than unloading shells into the minions of Hell. Old school gamers will love the nostalgia, whilst all those thirteen year old Halo players can learn that real men don't need MJOLNIR armour.
the classic 1st person shooter...on the go!!! April 10, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i don't like portable consoles...especialy the game boy (advance, sp, micro ect) they were boring...untill they finaly released some decent, 3-d game, which is actuallty 3-d which is rare in any game boy console, and they chose the right game to rerelease. Doom has returned...after years of being one of the best first person shooters in the world...it is brought to a portable console. The game features most of the things from the pc version, dynamic lights (or static lights), all the enemies and weapons...everything you could want on a simple game boy. There are some downfalls, there are some levels missing from the pc version (i have the pc version), it's missing one level of difficulty (e.g easy-hard...no medium). And also it's hard to see what's going on when the dynamic light setting is on...i prefer the dynamic lights...but i have to change the mode to static lighting (when everythings brightly coloured) so you can see. Apart from that the game is excellent and worth the money...i garuntee you won't be dissapointed.
 A classic, but not all that playable June 28, 2004
Neil (Herts, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Doom is a classic. No doubt about it. Still playable nowadays. Superb level design, tight action, all the right things you want in an all-out action FPS.But it needs a bigger screen. I can't play it on my SP since I can't see what's going on. A good try, but I'll stick with FFA Tactics and Mario Kart.
doomed June 4, 2003
don (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Its wonderfull really how something i played on when our family first got a PC is now on a little black cartridge. This game is great purley becuase it is Doom on a handheld. All the weapons and enemys are there along with 21 levels of 3D shooter action. I think this should be in any ones collection who owns a GBA. The only down point is that Doom is a classic game and was released in 93/94 so to some it may seem a bit too old. Also the levels can seem to drag after a while.
 Doom Advance on the GBA.. December 23, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the classic game on the gameboy advance, and it is brilliant. It's basically just that; Doom on the game boy advance. All the sounds and music are pretty much the same as the PC version, and the handy new L and R buttons on the GBA make it easy to sidestep. None of the gameplay has been lost, and the multiplayer is fantastic, provided you can find someone else with a GBA and a doom cartridge.Of course some things have been changed. As it's a console and is targeted at younger people, they've made the blood (including yours) green. Plus the corpses vanish. These things are minor, but there is the very occasional slowdown also. The lack of in-game saving only serves to make it more tense and challenging, and you'd be surprised at how much absorption and fun you can get out of playing the game on such a small screen. Another very minor problem is that the 'Ultra Violence' difficulty from the original has been done away with and renamed to Nightmare, so the original nightmare difficulty mode isn't there, if you want it THAT difficult. My main rant about it is that the levels have been changed quite a bit, especially towards the end. The toughest enemy you'll come up against are the acid throwing demon lords, and the final boss level has been replaced with the secret level from the original, 'Limbo', which is basically two large levels crammed full of the tougher monsters. The levels in the final chapter look distinctly more plain with less set pieces such as cages, people empaled on poles, conveyor-belt walls of severed faces, etc. But it's still doom. And it's still great fun, with 3 chapters, 24 levels and 4 difficulties. The contols are still fluid and intuitive (moreso thanks to the GBA itself), and it still has masses of gameplay, especially for a portable game. If you buy any game for the GBA, make it this one. I'd give it 4.5 stars but they won't let me. So I'll just give it 5 stars.
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