Many fans of the Metroid series have been waiting years for a sequel to the long running franchise. With another year without the release of a new Metroid game a few talented modders took it upon themselves to make their own addition to the series.
Metroid: Dreadnought is built on the Doom II engine, and if you a familiar to the Metroid Prime series then you’ll feel right at home… if Metroid Prime were released in the early 90’s.
With the surprising number of fan-remakes and fanmade games running on more modern engines like CryEngine 3 and Unreal Engine 4 it is kind of refreshing to see a fanmade game on a classic engine like Doom’s. Maybe in the future we will see more fanmade Metroid games on more modern engines and maybe it will even push Nintendo to make another Metroid. If not then it looks PC Gamers will be the only ones to play another Metroid.
You can download the mod from ModDB.
Matt Followell is another contributing author here at DSOGaming. A long time fan of PC Gaming and a huge supporter of the open source and homebrew movement. You’ll see him interacting with the community from time to time going by the user-name of Radapples.
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Awesome!
And holy s**t, the ID engines seems timeless.
It really is timeless. Doom Engine, Quake Engine, Source Engine. These will always be timeless because it brings us all back to a special nostalgic place.
Agreed, but I meant even excluding the nostalgia factor. When I see the projects like this, Brutal Doom, Mercenaries, and games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and E.Y.E. Divine Cibermancy and even Titanfall for that matter, pushing and extending the capabilities of the so called old engines, I get such a dumb smile in my face.
Looks more fun than CoD/Battlefield.
this is dead badass!
i would love to play this!
this is ACTION Metroid!