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‘Doom’ Meets ‘Friday the 13th’ in the ‘Friday the 13th: Jason’s Doom’ Total Conversion [Video]
Doom has featured a lot of mods and total conversions from some very creative people over its 30 years, and they just keep on coming. Doom designer John Romero blessed fans with SIGIL II a few weeks back, and now modders Gokuma and Kontra Kommando have given Doom fans and fans of the LJN classic (or not, depending on your point of view) Friday The 13th for the NES a treat with which to head into 2024: Friday The 13th: Jason’s Doom, a total conversion of the NES sidescroller into Doom.
Currently still in beta over at ModDB, Friday The 13th: Jason’s Doom takes after the NES game, but this time, it’s Doomguy having to hunt down Jason and defeat him. Gokuma and Kontra have done an amazing job of taking the NES game’s graphics and sounds into Doom, recreating the map of Crystal Lake and the cabins. They’ve even made it so Jason is always going around the map after spawning at one of few random spots, with musical cues to let you know whether he’s in a cabin or attacking/killing someone.
The music from the NES game has been remade for the mod, which doesn’t quite sound like the NES chiptunes, but really, it’s darn close. If that’s not enough, you can configure it so that you and you friends can join a game and split up to take on Jason! Future updates look to tweak more of the weapons to be in line with the NES game, along with the usual bugfixes.
Thanks to reader ManiacalMike for the heads up (and Lee nocisum for the video)!
Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.
Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”
Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.
And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.
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