2006 review by me of Dawn of The Dead mod on GameSpy's PlanetDoom

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This time I have "Dawn of The Dead" in for a review. This one doesn’t have a mod to download but there are video clips included to show game play and weapons. If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s basically about a group of people stuck in a city fighting the undead.

According to the mod website, this mod is still under works but so fat has 173 Mb of custom textures and models. Looking at the models indicate a lot of work is being put into this mod. The guns are no longer Doom 3 guns and has weapons such as knife, revolver, colt, shotgun, hammer, SMG, etc. Items and objects such as cell phone, radio, TV, health pack and so on.

The gameplay looks very interesting. You have a cell phone that you can use apparently. The cell phone lets you communicate with the outside world building the story by means of uncovering the plots and some help in escaping the zombie threat. The movement looks good as well as the physics and motion. However, remember that this was assessed only by observing the video clips.

The best part of this mod seems to be the change in textures and guns to create a totally different environment to the one that we all got used to in Doom 3. The light holders are different and screenshots show that there are areas using replicas of its real world counterpart such as one screenshot showing a Pepsi juice dispenser.

It looks like this mod is shaping up nicely and would be worth the wait when it finally gets released. It is great to see more mod's coming out based on movies.

The mod information, screenshots, movie clip downloads can be found at: http://www.blacktreeuk.net/dawn_of_the_dead_downloads.html

--Reviewed by Shadow Master