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Help me out, I feel like picking up a FPS for the GBA for car trips an' stuff. I know there's a bunch, like the Doom and Doom 2, The Eeks Vs. Sever games, Dark Arena, Medal of Honor, and a few others. Anyone care to recommend one, or tell me how any of the above mentioned titles are? Thanks.
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Doom 2. Close to the original, runs faster than Doom 1 GBA, has almost everything intact. Bodies disappear though.
Too many other FPSes on the system are gimmicky and try to make things really complex. All that does for them is make it so that you can only have 4 enemies on the level or something (exaggeration, but hey).
Can you dig it?
I was actually considering Doom 2. Anything else you'd care to share about the port, especially compared to the Doom 1 port (which I have seen in action)? You say it runs faster but is it a big difference? Thanks.Originally Posted by BoBVila
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Some people say they think it's a lot smoother, but I didn't notice it that much.
Doom 1 GBA cuts out all the boss monsters, so anything above a Baron of Hell is gone. Some of the levels are also removed/changed. Doom 2 has all the monsters except for the Revenant I think (the skeleton guy that shoots the rockets from his shoulderpads). It also retains all the levels, but it splits up one of the large ones into two parts. The Arch-Vile is there, and he resurrects guys still (even if they are gone because they disappear to keep the framerate up).
Doom 2 GBA is as close to the original as any console port of the game has ever been, though, so if you liked it for the PC (which I loved, so maybe that's part of my bias), then it's worth picking up. While I did play all the way through the Duke game, I just don't think any of the other shooters on GBA are worth it. Ecks vs Sever is a "stealth-type" game, but you can't use it really...it's a GBA after all, its capabilities aren't that good for shooters.
Can you dig it?
Thanks, Bob. I think you sold me on it.
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Ecks vs sever was too hard for me. When enemies have guns and take away your health really easily and you are stuck with a digital pad to aim, it doesn't leave you much time to get through levels without running out of health. They autoaim at you and when fighting many of them at once, taking damage seems almost mandatory.
Don't play fps games with digital pads for controls where the enemies can shoot back at you with heavy weapons. They get too hard.
Stick to doom.
Dark Arena: looks a little dated. The floors and ceiling has no texture. Breaks the atmoshpere for me.
Haven't played Duke, what's it like?
With nintendo coming out with that 3d chip thing, I wonder if we'll start seeing ports of quake and stuff to the little gba?
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