Doom: John Romero Releases Free New Episode for Game’s 30th Anniversary،
Arguably one of the most influential first-person shooter games in history, the iconic Loss turned 30 this weekend. The game continues its legacy three decades later, with tons of mods and new content created by the community all the time. Even the co-creator of the title continues to publish maps.
GZDoom is recommended
Alongside John Carmack, developer John Romero and the rest of the id Software team were instrumental in creating the world of Doom in 1993. Now, Romero himself has just released SIGIL II, a new WAD file for the game that contains some “classic and hardcore Doom punishment.”
You can download the maps here, which contains nine levels in total. The 2MB file itself is completely free, but if you want to play Romero's new level with the THORR soundtrack, it will cost you €6.66. Because of course that's the price for something like this.
As you might have guessed from the name, the campaign is a follow-up to SIGIL, which was released by former id developer in 2019. When asked on Twitter, Romero recommended the GZDoom client for the best SIGIL II experience .
Leaving the Doom and Wolfenstein company after the release of Quake in the mid-90s, Romero still has a presence in the video game industry. While his 2000 game Daikatana was released to poor reviews, he remained stuck, working on projects here and there.
Despite its aging over the decades, it's hard to overstate the influence of the original. Loss was and still is.
Building on Wolfenstein 3D, the game showed what was possible in development at the time. He made id Software a formidable studio, but was also one of the first examples of how individual developers themselves could be at the forefront.
