Hello everyone I'm Jack Red, two of my absolute favorite FPS games are Doom & Duke Nukem 3D respectively. Both of them keep getting ported to many platforms. I felt doing a different take not a lot of people would see coming. Which is exactly why I'm comparing their Xbox One ports. Yeah, we'll see which port is more worth your money & time.
1. Price
This will be a very straight forward round. Doom was release for five bucks, yes the fourth episode is included. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour gives you the first four episodes with a new fifth episode. You have to buy twenty dollars now that's a little too much. I know this version gives you voice commentary, you can easily most of them are an after thought.
I think Doom being five bucks is a good deal. It's not too much or too cheap just right. I really can't say the same about Duke 3D. Especially the previous Steam version was more worth the price. Honestly, it's not going to be a long discussion here. Clearly, Duke 3D's price is a little too much to justify it's worth while Doom's price more on point.
Winner: Doom
2. Extra contents
I already bought up Duke 3D has voice commentary. You also get one cheat code that gives you a selection you can use. Doom already has a cheat option available. Some codes the other game doesn't have. Like Duke 3D has a no clip option that's helpful in a few ways. Using cheats in Doom does prevent getting achievements while it doesn't in Duke 3D.
Doom also has a surprise that Duke 3D can't compete with. There's a feature where you play mods, some of those are both halves of Final Doom, Sigil and for Doom 2's case No Rest for the Living episode. Sigil is the spiritual episode 5 to the original Doom made by John Romero. Whose one of the original Doom team members who also helped made some of the greatest shooters of all time.
The mod support alone adds more levels to the overall game. Duke 3D did reuse a feature originally from Xbox 360 port. Where the game is recording when you die. You can choose when you start from. Now this prevents getting around cheap deaths or getting ambushed. Otherwise, I think Doom has the edge here.
Duke 3D does have bots you can use in multiplayer. Doom has quick save/quick load feature actually works faster than resetting your process in any level of Duke 3D. Remember, the mods/expansions from earlier, they also affect multiplayer. Sure it limits what you can use in terms of levels since you can only use one of those or the base game itself.
Winner: Doom
3. Stuff they both have
Why not do a category talking about stuff they both have? Both of them have a level select option. Of course, both of them have achievements you can go for. Mostly guarantee stuff to help build up your gamer score. You got a few campaigns worth of levels that all end with a boss. Well oh okay episode 5 of Duke 3D changed the rules by making other bosses fight you at several points.
Most cheats are similar with Doom having a few power up options. Which in itself gives it an edge. Duke 3D does have a few new songs & voice overs. Sadly, the audio isn't as good especially when Doom's faithful to the source material. In fact, the original composer did sue Gearbox Software over it no lie.
Yes, both games do have multiplayer. Mostly faithful to their PC versions, just remember you need to have gold to play with other people. How both of them play is very similar. Both games are FPS that requires key cards or in some Doom levels' case skulls to open areas. At the end of the episode mostly is a boss fight.
You get a lot of weapons with some enemies being similar between both games. Yes, both also have power ups that are very different from each other. Of course, both have weapons that the other game doesn't have. I think that by itself comes down to personal taste. Most things are similar but there's some clear differences.
Doom has more going for it offline wise including multiplayer. Let's say you can't play online because you ran out of gold time. No worries, if you have a friend or family member that wants to play as well. You can do it offline, I don't think Duke 3D as kind about that. Also, I haven't personally tested the online multiplayer of both games yet.
It sounds like both of them need some work done. I would say Duke 3D has slightly more multiplayer options in what you can play. Both of them have a couple of achievements. Again stuff like this comes down to personal taste. You can get mostly guarantee achievements with a handful of hard ones such as the case of Doom's or flat out cheat em all in Duke 3D.
Winner: Doom
3-0 Despite the newest Doom ports getting called the Doomed ports. They did fix the originally force login in to optional. Also, Duke 3D is not a bad game just a disappointing, newer version. I strongly felt Doom had a better price, better exclusive contents, and slightly better multiplayer for offline. Not only that, the mod support adds more levels to Doom 1 and 2 respectively as well.
Sure, Duke 3D has no clip code being the only cheat that should've been in Doom. At the same time, it's got most cheats with a few power up codes as well. I just felt this surprisingly became one sided. Duke 3D was to me better on Xbox 360 or Megaton Edition which you can't get anymore. At least, there you had four episodes plus three expansion episodes.
Overall, Doom Xbox One is done good enough to get the job done. Personally, I also think Xbox 360 version that's also used in Doom 3 BFG Edition is better. Yeah, for some reason Xbox 360 got better ports of both these games. Honestly, if I was comparing those it would be a bit closer than this. I have to say Doom on Xbox One is the better port to buy.
For the record, both games are great on Xbox 360. I felt Duke 3D having that feature that directly affect things when you die is tough to beat. Probably along with no clip code in Xbox One version being the only things it really had over that version of Doom. I would say Duke 3D was better because it had a level selection while Doom didn't.
Sure, you can select which episode to play but that's about it. Also, the achievements are a bit more fun to go for. You might even laugh at some of them too. So I felt Duke 3D on Xbox 360 is the better port there. Now if that doesn't tell you how disappointing the Xbox One version was, then what the hell will?
Winner: Doom
Hail to the Doomslayer, Baby!!!
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