

Doom has always gone for that ’90s feel - from the music, writing, jokes, and references - and now it can look like a ’90s-era comic book. If you really wanted to change things up, look no further than the DoEt Cel-Shader mod. This mod may not look all that impressive in stills, but it makes the whole game just feel a little bit better once you’re in it. You also get a little bump in color and image quality too. The main effects put back into the game include the HUD moving as the player runs, a shadow for the Doomslayer, reduced blurry anti-aliasing, the ability to enable ray tracing, and lens flares. The Restored Graphics Effects mod brings them all back, giving you an experience more in line with what the developers were aiming for at a certain point in development.

While Carmack had nothing to do with the previous mod or game itself, this modder found that there were some graphical options left on the cutting room floor at ID.

It isn’t a major shift, but it adds a nice new sheen to the game for anyone looking to bump up the graphics a bit. Neither John works on the current Doom games, but this mod pays homage to Carmack and his dedication to pushing the technical boundaries by re-shading the game to provide more depth and color to the environments. Carmack was the brains behind all the cutting-edge technology that basically made a first-person shooter possible way back in the early ’90s. The original Doom was created by two legendary Johns: Romero and Carmack.

While it wasn’t the first FPS game ever made, the original Doom certainly set the standard for the genre for decades to follow.
