A case study in ruining a great game
OK, lets get the elephant in the room out of the way; Yes, this is just Doom with different maps and swapped sprites/sounds. And hey, that's fine, Doom is still a great game. No problem here. And it's really not badly designed from what I've seen, the maps are fine and the new sprites are OK. All good. So why one star?
I have never known an otherwise cool-looking game be ruined so thoroughly by its controls. They are absolutely awful. There are 3 control schemes, and none work.
What's the main combat tactic in Doom? That's right: circle strafing. You can attack and dodge enemy shots. Makes sense! It's impossible with the default controls. Left "stick" walks forward/ back and turns, there's no way to strafe. The second and third control sets in theory allow this... Except they've implemented the controls in such away that they aren't multi-touch! You can only use one "stick" at a time! This is totally absurd. If it sounds minor, try it out, it's just awful.
Even aside from this, the controls are terrible. Sometimes you can only rotate one way. Sometimes you try to use one stick, and the games registers it as the other. Sometimes, often, your attempts to fire or activate things misregister as turns. There is, as far as I can see, no way to change weapons.
It's a shame, because if not for the control issues I could totally see this being a 4 star game. But this one aspect is executed so, *so* poorly it renders the whole game nigh-unplayable. Avoid.
I have never known an otherwise cool-looking game be ruined so thoroughly by its controls. They are absolutely awful. There are 3 control schemes, and none work.
What's the main combat tactic in Doom? That's right: circle strafing. You can attack and dodge enemy shots. Makes sense! It's impossible with the default controls. Left "stick" walks forward/ back and turns, there's no way to strafe. The second and third control sets in theory allow this... Except they've implemented the controls in such away that they aren't multi-touch! You can only use one "stick" at a time! This is totally absurd. If it sounds minor, try it out, it's just awful.
Even aside from this, the controls are terrible. Sometimes you can only rotate one way. Sometimes you try to use one stick, and the games registers it as the other. Sometimes, often, your attempts to fire or activate things misregister as turns. There is, as far as I can see, no way to change weapons.
It's a shame, because if not for the control issues I could totally see this being a 4 star game. But this one aspect is executed so, *so* poorly it renders the whole game nigh-unplayable. Avoid.
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Fix the controls!
Controls are horrible!
There is an ad 2cm away from here you have to tap to fire the weapon. So you constantly tap the advertisement! Not very fun with an ad constantly popping up.
There is an ad 2cm away from here you have to tap to fire the weapon. So you constantly tap the advertisement! Not very fun with an ad constantly popping up.
Decent but could use improvement
First of all, the movement NEEDS a due over, make a left digital stick for movement and strafing and leave the right side of the screen for aiming and shooting. It's an ok game but I would NEVER pay for this game at it's current version. I'd rather just stick with id and buy the real doom
Fun
This is freedoom
Meh
This game is no Nukem 3D let's admit that. Nor should it be any FPS on the App Store. It's hard enough to control your character. And fusing panning with moving is not a good solution to fixing an already broken game.
Complicated Controls
The game is okay and all but you really need to improve the controls
Crap!
Don't waste your money ..... Waste of time..... Crashes all the time on I phone 5. Spend your pennies on the original Doom......
Good effort
It's an absolute copy of Doom, but well done. I hope to see more demos, minus the copied code that ID spent almost forever writing. If you did write the code, and do this 3d engine, then you are 20 years late! Even the textures, mapping, position of the HUD, sprites, map design, everything is all too familiar. ID have made their money on it, so lets hope they won't be bothered about this clone. I do like it, but just hate the advert. I'd just write in a 10s "splash screen" and put the advert on there, and maybe one on the map in the game. Not where you will be bothered about it. It interferes with the controls.
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Controls don't work properly! (iPad2)
It seems like the same code as Doom, with respect to the control setup, except they don't work properly.
Sometimes doesn't let you turn and and move at the same time, you have to hit both controls at the same time, and sometimes you just can't fire! What a mess.
Sometimes doesn't let you turn and and move at the same time, you have to hit both controls at the same time, and sometimes you just can't fire! What a mess.
Worst. Game. Ever.
Its not worth it. The controls are terrible. The shooting button barely shoots. And theres ads. Dont waste your time getting this.
