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DOOM II Official Strategy Guide


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A reasonably decent guide to DOOM II, written by Ed Dille in the voice of an annoyed drill instructor trying to whip a new recruit (that's you, the reader) into fighting shape. It includes a number of strategies for co-operative play, which game guides often lacked back in the day, especially for First-Person Shooter titles. No Deathmatch strategies beyond "always be running, don't stand in one place, and fire the biggest guns you've got", but the amount of time spent discussing fire team formations and other co-op strategies is really cool to see. Also includes a short interview with John Romero which is worth reading by itself, although much of the information in it you'll already know if you've read Masters of DOOM.

This should have been a black-and-white guide, but Prima for some reason chose to go with a spot colour printing approach, infusing red ink into virtually every page, and even into the black-and-white screenshots. It's an interesting look, but it also jacked the price of this guide up to $20 US when it really should have been $15 or thereabouts. Prima must have realized this price might turn some people off, because they released a stripped-down, 96-page budget hint book called The DOOM II Survival Guide which contains the basic item, enemy, weapon, and map info from this book, but none of the level strategies, multiplayer info, interview, or cheat codes.

But here's the big, bad mama in all its glory. Enjoy! ❤️

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I just realized that page 198 is missing... just curious, was it because it was a blank page ?

It's always good to keep them in, so when you look the magazine in a two-page fashion, the numbering and page don't change.

Thanks again for this one!

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  On 2/4/2024 at 6:22 PM, dablais said:

I just realized that page 198 is missing... just curious, was it because it was a blank page ?

It's always good to keep them in, so when you look the magazine in a two-page fashion, the numbering and page don't change.

Thanks again for this one!

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I'm pretty sure if it was left out, it was because it was a blank page. I don't have the book any longer to check, sadly. I have to cut the spines off, and they get recycled after they've been scanned. Back when I was starting this, I had extremely slow internet so I was doing everything I could to keep file sizes down, and that did include leaving out blank pages. I always forget people like to use two-page mode for viewing, and yeah, that probably did disrupt the flow of the book, considering there are maps that stretch across the gutter.

I guess one could simply insert a blank page in the appropriate spot in the file...? Maybe I can figure out how to do that and re-upload the fix. :)

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Hi Areala, thanks.  I just wanted to verify with you first without assuming anything.   That's probably what happen, I always try to keep the blank page even and often, the back of the front and back cover.  This assures that the flow is kept intact when reading it in a two pages view.  Every time I found one that is missing, I fix it. 

So the doom is corrected now. ;)

Danny

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