"The Accursed"

accursed.wad

Author(s):

Jeffrey J. Martin

Year of release:

1996

Map(s):

01-05

Engine:

Doom2

Date of review:

09/06/2006

Overall rating:

This 5-map wad from 1996 is surprisingly entertaining. It has some nice new graphics and even new monsters (well no completely new DECORATE monsters, but some cloned DEHACKED monsters), but they're all quite weak and even the nice Archvile clone loses his horror very fast.
The first maps show some very clever layouts, however the later maps are slacking a bit. And the last map was rather boring.
Gameplay is very easy with no boss monsters but mainly imps and marines.
It's good and innovative work for 1996 but a bit tame for today's standards.