John Romero has announced that his Doom megawad, SIGIL, will be made available for free to everyone on May 31st. The SIGIL Megawad is the spiritual successor to the fourth episode of Doom, and picks up where the original left off.
This Megawad features nine single-player and nine deathmatch levels, and we are pretty sure that a lot of Doom fans will be interested in it as it’s completely free for everyone.
Here is what John Romero had to say about SIGIL:
“Well, I wanted the levels to feel like they belong to the original game as if they were a true fifth episode. There’s more detail in the levels than episodes 1-4, but not overly so. I believe that people playing the SIGIL megawad will recognize my design style, but see new things I’m doing because this episode does not take place on a military base – it takes place in Hell, which is new to me within DOOM’s design space. There’s a massive room in E5M6 that is the coolest room I’ve created in any map.”
The early reviews for SIGIL are a mixed bag. While some suggest that this is a cool Megawad, others claim that it features cheap death scenes and that its level design is not up to what Romero created in those golden 2D days.
Still, this is something that is being offered for free so I strongly suggest downloading it and playing it when it releases!
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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Talking of retro gaming also check out these latest developments in the emulation scene,
– impressive progress with upcoming Xbox emulator XQEMU
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=opxJOl59vnI
– bsnesHD beta 6
github(dot)com/DerKoun/bsnes-hd/releases
– mGBA 0.7.2
mgba(dot)io/downloads.html
– FBAlpha superseded by FBNeo
libretro(dot)com/index(dot)php/goodbye-fbalpha-welcome-fbneo/
Still butthurt and upvoting yourself, huh.
Romero is a huge SJW. Boycott anything he makes!
….. its free…. but sure okay.
I mean, you could pay 6.66 euros and you get a nice soundtrack by Buckethead. I did.
Have to Youtube some Buckethead now!
My point is people don’t generally boycott something that is free.
apparently sigil is pretty bad.
It’s not, the idiots spreading bad impressions just can’t play Doom. If you’re one of those people who only play Doom because of Brutal Doom and use that mod for every megawad then chances are you’ll hate Sigil because the level design is working against the simple run and gun playstyle.
so will he make us his b*tch this time?