idNews/id_ultDoom

From: John Romero

To: doom-editing@nvg.unit.no

Subject: The Ultimate DOOM from id

Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 21:45:52 -0500

Company: id Software, inc.

WADMeisters:

Today we cut the master of "The Ultimate DOOM" - DOOM gone retail. This

is a Special Edition of DOOM v1.9 that includes the NEW FOURTH EPISODE -

yes 9 more original levels from id! This 4th episode is titled "Thy

Flesh Consumed" and takes place after the 3rd episode and before Hell on

Earth. Also included in this Ultimate DOOM is 5 hours of DWANGO time on

the server nearest you.

If you already have a registered copy of DOOM and want The Ultimate

DOOM, you can call our 1-800-idgames # and pay a nominal amount (not

known yet) for the upgrade to The Ultimate DOOM (your name should be in

our database and you will receive the new Ultimate DOOM box w/DWANGO

certificate). Otherwise, you can just buy it in the stores.

You may all be interested in who did what level and what the map names are;

this is prerelease info since The Ultimate DOOM hasn't been released yet:

Map Who? Name

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4-1 American McGee Hell Beneath

4-2 John Romero Perfect Hatred

4-3 Shawn Green Sever The Wicked

4-4 American McGee Unruly Evil

4-5 Tim Willits They Will Repent

4-6 John Romero Against Thee Wickedly

4-7 John Anderson And Hell Followed

4-8 Shawn Green Unto The Cruel

4-9 Tim Willits Fear (secret level)

Tim Willits is the reknowned Raven WADs creator and has been hired by

Rogue Entertainment (developers of Strife for id Software). Tim had some

spare time to create a couple cool maps for this Special Edition of

DOOM. John Anderson, aka Dr. Sleep, also did a very, very nice job on

4-7 (which he originally titled CHIRON.WAD).

Amazingly enough, 4-3 was Shawn Green's VERY FIRST MAP! And 4-8 was his

second map -- you can definitely see the improvement!

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