14 Facts About Doom II

Doom II, known as Doom II: Hell on Earth, is a first-person shooter game by id Software.

Reception of Doom II was very positive, with critics praising that the game refined the good aspects of the original Doom.

Doom II was ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2002, Tapwave Zodiac in 2004, on Xbox Live Arcade in 2010, and on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2019.

Doom II was included in the Doom ports for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1995 and 1997.

Rather than the player playing through three related episodes as in the first Doom II, gameplay takes place over 32 levels, albeit with interludes for when the story develops.

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Doom II doubled the number of non-boss monster types and started using bosses from the original Doom as normal level enemies, in addition to adding a new weapon, the super shotgun, and a new power-up, the megasphere.

Dooms multiplayer functionality was greatly improved in Doom II, including "out of the box" support for a vastly increased number of dial-up modems.

Nowadays, in the modern standards, Doom II can be played with almost any version of Windows across the internet using third-party source ports such as Odamex, Zandronum, ZDaemon, and are still popular today.

Doom II kills the Icon of Sin by firing rockets into its exposed brain.

Doom II was released on October 10, 1994 in North America and Europe.

Port for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn came included with the Doom II ports released in 1995 and 1997 for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, respectively.

Master Levels for Doom II is an official expansion pack for Doom II which was released on December 26, 1995 by id Software.

Reception of Doom II was positive, with reviewers saying it refined everything that made the original Doom good.

Doom II won the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science fiction Computer Game of 1994.