The 20th Zone II
Platform: PC
Price: Free on Moddb
Developer: Walcionyrs
Publisher: Walcionyrs
Engine: zDoom
[All images courtesy of the developer on moddb]
Background: I was searching for another indie game to review. I found this. It looked fun. It was free. And simplicity and fun seemed to enjoy a matrimony in these twenty levels. While I only played a fourth of the levels in forty minutes, I can tell you it is a great game already. This may be one of the best doom clones that you can play for free.
Levels/Weapons/Enemies: The levels are entertaining but linear. You’ll be engaging company sized contingents of enemies at once or in platoon or squad formations. Enemies range from: humanoid infantry, cyborgs, bosses of varying strength, and lastly reptilian aliens. You start out with an under powered Desert Eagle pistol. I have fired a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle in reality. I can tell you it is a powerful and hard to control handgun in rapid fire. I wouldn’t recommend it for combat shooting that requires rapid fire. Other weapons include a classic minigun common in the Doom series, and a shotgun similar to that in the Doom series as well. Although, it acts like a semi-automatic or automatic shotgun rather than the pump-action found in the above mentioned games.
Final Analysis: Give this game a try. It is not sophisticated or grandoise, but it is brief fun.
