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Yak World

Game: Doom Year: 1994 Port: Any Specs: E2M5 Gameplay Mods: None Author: Spackle Ltd. idgames | doomwiki | onemandoom 

Yak World is one of the few PWADs I can remember playing off my shovelware disc. It’s kind of like a Doom amusement park, but not quite. It’s got some goofy voice clips and some nice presentation for ‘94, and a secret level that feels more like a deathmatch outing. Just, uh, watch out if you’re playing in ZDoom, because the sound clip meant to play at the exit screen cocks up and plays after every explosion.

Ick

Game: Doom Year: 2001 Source Port: Any Specs: E2M1 Gameplay Mods: None Author: Karthik Abhiram Krishna idgames | onemandoom

Ick! Karthik’s first official release is a squat techbase level that features grimy textures, nukage, and a cramped dungeon crawler-style layout. Take a good look at the automap and you can see how the creation of walls and things inside sectors was not a necessarily intuitive process. It doesn’t exactly point the way toward the same author who made Congestion Control, named one of Doomworld’s Top 10 WADs of 2002, but it’s a start.

Doom Vacation

Game: Doom II Year: 2011 Port: ZDoom Specs: MAP01-MAP03 +MAP31 Gameplay Mods: No changes to core gameplay Author: Sunstorm Interactive (ed. Joseph Otey aka “Doorhenge”) idgames | onemandoom

Duke Caribbean is probably Duke 3D’s most beloved commercial add-on. I kind of prefer the sprawling layouts of Duke it Out in DC, myself, but Caribbean has a boatload of charm. It only figures that such a fine product would get translated into Doom, for which we have to thank Joseph Otey, the most recent handler of ZBlood.

Doom Vacation is pretty faithful to the original as far as level design goes. Some of the finer points differ, like a few of the visual gags, or the health of the women, who are way more durable than their Duke 3D counterparts. There’s only one downside - Otey only converted the first three levels, plus the secret, which leaves me wanting the rest. Still, I’m happy with what I have to be happy with, because Doom Vacation rocks. Of course, a set of brand new vacation levels would be even better…