REKKR: Sunken Land

Doom the dark ages if it was good

This is some of the finest old-school shooting I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. It's a little more punishing than Doom. Despite being a big viking dude, you won't last long trying to slug it out with most enemies. That's what the guns are for. This game employs some VERY clever GZDoom trickery, and there are some gorgeous environments and setpieces. Gameplay-wise though, it's more faithful to its inspirations than some of the more mechanically advanced shooters on the engine. You aren't getting any upgrade trees. You have no alt-fires. There's no involved storyline with multi-stage quests and voice-acting. It's you, your weird magic bow, some steampunk guns, an axe, some damn fine level design, and a killer soundtrack. Find the keys, activate the switches, kill a bunch of freakazoids. Exceptional stuff.

Played the first 3 episodes as the Doom WAD for console and it was pretty fun. This full version adds a lot more options and the ability to look up and down, which is great. Fun steampunk style boom shoot romp.

Unimpressive level design, and wea weapons mixed with incoherent asset design. I've tried playing this a few times, but before soon I get bored by those initial aspects and just uninstall it. There are much better doom/heretic clones out there, not even worth the low price when you can get better experiences right here on Steam on the same vein for free.

I will update this review as I play more of the game. The weapons roster is good but the visual design feels a bit under developed and the vfx for the ammunition type can be a bit underwhelming like the runestaff and soul gun, They're not bad but they could be better. The sounds are quite good but the music lacks variety for different atmospheres. Episodes I & II were a lot of fun. Good design, good color palette, they were fun to play. The third episode on the other hand I thought was horrible. It was strangely abstract and not in a fun way for me, imbalanced placement of too many enemies in some of the later levels and convoluted level design in which I had to use god mod/no clip to recover and figure out where I am meant to go. I didn't like the third episode at all I thought it was pretty terrible and also the lack of fun outdoor areas wasn't great. I'm up to the last episode now so will update once I complete it.

buy it