Modder ‘H3llBaron’ has released a 2025 Update for his amazing Essential HD Pack v2.0 Remaster Mod for Doom 3. This mod will completely overhaul id Software’s horror take on the Doom franchise. As such, it’s one I highly recommend using.

Going into more details, Doom Essential HD Pack v2.0 Remaster upscales and enhances all of the textures in the base game, the Resurrection of Evil DLC, and The Lost Mission Mod. Moreover, it reworks and improves details for all levels, mapobjects, characters, monsters, and weapons.

This fan remaster also adds omitted/unused micro details and effects from E3 Alpha Tech Demo 2002. Plus, it includes the E3 Alpha Pistol, Shotgun and Machinegun.

With this mod, all the dead bodies stay on the place. Bullet shells will also stay forever in the ground. And that’s not all. Players can expect full self shadows on every model of the game. Oh, and there are also new effects for impacts, liquids and glasses to the game.

As I said, this is a must-have mod for everyone who wants to replay Doom 3. So, if this game is in your backlog list, I suggest playing it with it. You can go ahead and download it from this link.

Now if you don’t want to use this mod, you should at least download Doom 3 Redux. As with the Essential HD Remaster, this mod attempts to overhaul the game’s graphics. Doom 3 Redux comes with over 2,300 enhanced textures. It includes 700+ textures from Monoxead and Wulfen texture packs, plus new ones. More than 1,200 textures have been remade for Redux, usually at 4 times and up to 16 times their original size.

Speaking of Doom 3, there is also a really cool Halo-inspired Mod for it. This mod brings to the game the weapons, character models, items, and lore elements from the Halo franchise. So, if you are a Halo fan, you should at least give it a go. Then we have Runner’s Doom 3 v1.5, a mod that attempts to turn the game into an old-school Run-and-Gun shooter. Finally, we have Doom 3: Retaliation, a mod that attempts to bridge the gap between classic Doom, Doom 3 and modern Doom.

Enjoy and stay tuned for more!

John Papadopoulos

John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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