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TOTAL CHAOS

Yes, this is the Mod Spotlight section of the magazine, but calling Total Chaos a mod is doing it a disservice. This remarkable thing, created by Wadaholic, transforms Doom 2 into a survival horror. But if you’re expecting old Doom assets flipped into some kind of clunky horror game that sounds cool on paper but doesn’t quite work, well… just look at the screenshots.

This is such a departure from the game it’s based on that I’d believe you if you told me it was a standalone project built from the ground up. I should clarify, however, Total Chaos runs on GZDoom, a 3D-accelerated port that adds support for dynamic lighting, sloped floors, 2-style skyboxes, and other stuff the vanilla game could only dream of rendering. Even so, the fact that the guts of the ancient (but still great) are powering this thing is

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