How would you like to end the year by playing every FPS from the early 90s up to modern day, all at once? Fighting Half-Life 2 Metrocops with the magical weapons of Heretic, or showing the grunts of Quake who’s the boss with some classic Strife weaponry? I’m fairly sure this amazing multi-mashup mod violates every copyright ever written, but I just don’t care. It lets me blow up the enemies from Duke Nukem 3D with the Quake 2 BFG. Trailer and more after the break.

A cookie if you can even name half the weapons shown off. A hint: I saw some from Bulletstorm, Painkiller and even recent Team Fortress 2 updates in there. Crazy stuff. As you might imagine, the mod is a little on the messy, chaotic and unbalanced side… but only a little. A ridiculous amount of effort has gone into tuning all the guns and enemies to roughly comparable power brackets. Using any Doom 2 map pack (and there are literally thousands of them), it randomly replaces enemies with their comparable equivalents from other games, and likewise with weapon pickups.

New HUDs, a Left 4 Dead style ‘director’ difficulty mode, a persistent inventory system and new/revised ‘theme’ modes top off this enormous pile o’ Stuff. This is the sixth major release of this mod, and has been in the works for about six years now. There’s clearly been a lot of hard work and imagination poured into this, even if it does draw all it’s resources from other games. The conversion of enemies from polygons in newer games to Doom-engine sprites in particular must have been painstaking work.

This mod really is a must-play for anyone who has been running around and shooting stuff in videogames these past 20 years. Come for the nostalgia overload, stay for the remarkably interesting balance and variety that all the additional guns and monsters bring. To run the mod, you’ll need the latest version of the GZDoom engine (Windows only) and Doom 2, both linked below. It’s all pretty intuitive stuff if you read the Readme files.

[Aeons Of Death, Doom 2, GZDoom Engine]

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