Oldies are goodies

To continue in a similar vein from my last post, Doom is back and then some. I discovered, much to my delight that Microsoft have released Doom on Xbox Live Arcade. I am impressed. It is an excellent port right down to the dodgy midi version on Pantera's "Mouth for War" playing over the first level of the third episode. I excitedly played through the first few levels and remembered fondly all the old tricks and secrets that those days of playing on my old 486 revealed to me. It plays really smoothly and the console control system adapts perfectly to playing with speed and indeed it plays a bit quicker that it does on the Windows 95 keyboard on my PC. I have been disappointed by recent efforts to port Doom and I am very pleased at the quality of the 360 port. Playing Doom on the Gameboy Advance was a frustrating effort for me, especially as I had one of the original consoles with the unlit screen (Nintendo, what were you thinking?). The 360 version, however, has me smiling. Perhaps I am over-enthusiastic about because it has appeared just in time for my birthday and I am in an excellent mood because my girlfriend has bought me all sorts of amazing gifts but nevertheless well done Microsoft. Now, I never thought I'd say that...