Did you love Doom? Then you’ll probably love Doom II, because it’s largely more of the same, just with a few tweaks, new enemies, new weapons, and some technical improvements.
Doom ended with Doomguy returning from Hell Mars to find that Earth had been overrun by demons and was being merged with Hell. It’s up to Doomguy to find where the invasion is coming from and put a final end to it.
The major noticeable changes are the inclusion of the double shotgun (yay!) and the removal of the overworld map on the intermission screen (boo!). Additionally, rather than being broken up episodically in the tradition of many shareware games, Doom II consists of 30 consecutive levels, though these are broken up thematically with story-text interludes.
Everything you could possibly like about Doom is there: true 3D environments with rich textures, varied-light environments (perfect for springing those jump-scare death traps), excellent dark and heavy bleep-bloop music, lots of guns, lots of monsters, pentagrams, and gore.
Doom II’s levels are not substantially larger than those in Doom, but the middle section of the game features an interesting level design experiment, using big, open levels with multiple buildings to simulate the cityscape that Doomguy is fighting his way across.
The actual gameplay remains more or less unchanged. Doomguy still can’t jump, nor can he look up and down. Given that Heretic would be released only a few months later, it would’ve been nice for look to be implemented, especially for the cityscape levels. Jumping wouldn’t be implemented in the Doom engine until Hexen; “momentum jumps” have to suffice.
One of the places where Doom II really shines is in its soundtrack. The dark and atmospheric tracks mixed in with the hard and heavy “metal” tracks really solidify the relationship between Industrial music and First Person Shooters which would reach its first zenith when Nine Inch Nails provided the soundtrack for Quake.
Like the original Doom, there is a vast surfeit of fan maps and mods (including total conversions, that gave us weird stuff like a Sonic the Hedgehog fangame made entirely in Doom!), which means the possibilities are virtually endless.
Review By P. Alexander
English 
Comments and reviews
Why should I pay doom 2 on steam when I can download it for free almost anywhere?
30 years pass and i still remember iddqd!
Haha !! I have downloaded this game from this site ;)
But U say this is Impossible!! No it is not anymore !
!!! DoooooooooMMMMMMM !!!!
Use GZDooM with the ZDL loader and enjoy the best of the original game as well as near countless mods and total conversions! :) :) :) :) :) :)
Haven't played on a while, still good.
@Full on Rebel is my name
The reason it's not for download for free is because its no longer abandonware. The development of DOOM Eternal has nothing to do with whether Doom II should be free, just like how Black Ops 4 has nothing to do with whether COD1 should be free. The only reason there are free games on here is because they're hard to obtain legally since the developer abandoned them, hence the term abandonware. Since all of the Doom games are being sold on GOG, Steam, or some other platform, there is an easy way to obtain the games legally. It's not bologna, it's supporting the company that made the games, even if the original development team is no longer working at that company.
This appears to be Doom Demo not Doom2?
Let's start a revolution to make these games free again. If it's made in the 90s or even the early 2000s it should be free I shouldn't have to pay for doom 2 if doom eternal is on the way. I shouldn't have to pay for call of duty 1 if they made black ops 4. It's all bologna
I downloaded Doom II and it work perfect with the exception of the sound. I have music, but no sound. That is, no gun fire, no monsters snarling, etc. just music. I am using a Mac and Boxer, and I went into Boxer and set up the sound using Soundblaster which almost always works. The sound works perfect in Doom I with the same settings. The game is not much fun without the sound.
Is this compatible with Brutal Doom?
it's better to use one of these source ports than dosbox. I recommend crispy doom.
WARNING-Do not use dosbox. You're much better off opening doom 2.wad in gzdoom
for everyone who downloaded this for a NEWER version of mac is probably not gunna work to play this you need a version of mac either lower than 10.4 or the same so for people who are raging because they think this doom works just download Gzdoom and a doom 2 wad if after that look it up any way just thought this would help :P
Hah... I still remember the codes
God mode: IDDQD
Give all: IDKFA
Skip to level ##: IDCLEV##
No clipping (walk through walls): IDCLIP
Light: IDBEHOLDL
Allmap: IDBEHOLDA
there were a few other "IDBEHOLD" codes... I think "I" was invincibility
The sequel to the most legendary shooter of all time keeps all the guts and gore of the original while also adding much more in terms of level design. Now on Earth, you'll find yourself fighting through hellspawn from the deepest depths of sewers to the highest of towering cities. Only now it seems hell has some new toys to play with, but little do they know, so do you!
Too much?
Okay. Well... Doom II: Hell on Earth the direct continuation that picks up right where Doom left off. It your character (Doomguy) as he accepts the ungodly fact that hell's monsters have made it here before he could stop it. Six new monsters and one new weapon which became the most popular in the series next to the BFG9000. But what really sets Doom and Doom 2 apart from one another is the level design and story bits (the message screens).
Instead of the narrow halls of Phobos, Deimos and Hell, you now face of against hoards of the hellspawn in the cities, towns, suburbs, and facilities of Earth. So the design goes from being small and confining to large and foreboding. One might think this is counterproductive, but it actually works in the games favor. Instead of being in narrow halls where you can pretty easily guess when a monster will pop up, you're wondering through alleys and flooded halls where monsters can often be waiting to ambush you.
How do i install this on a mac? i don't know what to do with the files i downloaded. Please help
If you like games like Doom, you should look for the channel HoFPG on YouTube. very nice archive with many games of this kind
There's a DOOM source port called ZDOOM.
Here's the link: https://zdoom.org/
To GILI
There is a secret exit on level 15... from there, you will go to level 31.
On this level, another secret exit goes to level 32.
dit was het eerste spel dat ik speelde op mijn Pentium 120. eerlijk gezegd vond ik het toen niet zo leuk omdat mijn videokaart geen 3d ondersteunde. ik heb een vraag: wie kan het spel nog mmeer niet installeren op de c schijf onder dosbox? toen ik het downloade zaten er geen bestanden onder de titel. Wie weet raad?
groeten andre
IDCLIP pass to the wall
Cool game this is an classic and im just 11
IDKFA is the cheat for all keys and weapons, IDDQD is God mode
ADAFK
is that the weapon cheat?
I just ended Doom 2 (1994) played it online , and Level 30 was the final level , afterwards they congratulated me and showed all 15 monsters that played on the game . why this 31 level was never showed to me ? (the 30 level was the final one when i played).
Pretty cool and works, I just wish the screen was bigger
Lovely game, spend a lot of time with it, now my son wants to play.
i downloaded doom 2 just to kill nazis and not demons
Anyone know of a good site to get some third party wad files to go with this?
You can run this on the DosBox emulator just by downloading DosBox and the Dos version of Doom. All you need to do is extract the downloaded zip folder containing Doom into a folder where you will store your games. Next all you need to do is open the folder, set the default program that runs the main executable file to DosBox, insert a shortcut of it to your desktop and then clicking the shortcut. Hope this helps!
i like this games
ty sooo much for the download and ty random guy for the d fend method. worked like a charm ;)
what is the difference between the Steam version and this version?
did not work idk why fix this pls want to play this classic
I love you myabandonware! Its just because of you that I can play a lot of cool games in my low end pc too.
A Great Game!
old is gold
found my moms old power mac g4 from 1999 so i decided to hook it up and run doom 2 on it out of boredom. went on this site and got doom 2 to run on my mac. just get some old computer from your garage and play it on that if you have dosbox problems.
i cant play it why cant i
great game to install, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKg9cvE8pQk
nice game
doom is a good old game
cannot get it to run in DOSbox... what command do i punch in
I am playing doom2 on windows 7 with Dosbox. Problem is no audio and no music. How to solve it?
its a cool game...
i love DOOM!
I have Doom 2 1.7a, if anyone wants it.
HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WILL LAUNCH DOOM 2 WAD TO GZDOOM
For those having trouble with the music and sound, go to your Doom II folder and run setup.exe then select Sound Blaster (just Sound Blaster not Sound Blaster AWE32) as both your Music Sound Card and Sound FX Card.
Use the default numbers (just keep pressing the Enter key) and then select "Save parameters and launch Doom II".
Have fun!
Is this real?
@alex
have you tried ZANDRONUM?
Game works great for me, EXCEPT for the sound+music. Anyone else have this problem or have any suggestions?
this is the best shooting game i have ever played!!!
Fui um jogador inveterado do Doom 1 e 2. Mais infelizmente na minha época eram em disquetes e eles acabam. Fico contente com esta forma de poder baixar o game. Obrigado
I absolutely love this game :3
runs fine in dosbox
why u no werk!111!111!1!???/?/(c)
rell good game
@blazer33 did u download the mac version?
I can't for the love of me install ANY DOOM ON MY IBOOK G4!!!!
if you want to mod games then just do a google
search,i am sure something will come up, not sure if
you can actually create an enemy npc by scratch but I do
know doom/doom2 is one of the most moddable games out
there and there is a huge community out there if you go looking.
i want to be able to make my own enemy npc's for this game, does anyone know how I can be able to do this?
forget dosbox...forget dfend.....forget any type of silly Dos emulation
and go to zandronum.com and download that program.
now copy your doom WADS into that folder, = PROBLEM SOLVED, no
more hassles trying to play doom, doom2 or any of the thousands of mods.
doom 2 is a pretty good game, brutal doom mod takes it to a whole new level and YES please do yourself a favor and get zandronum(it's free) or some program similar. have a superhappyfuntime day.
thanks longdadleg2k, I just downloaded zanderam
program and if you don't have doom you have option
to download freedoom what it is is a game that use the
doom game engine bit it not doom.
but I not am knowing how I can change my pc
graphics from softwere mode to opengl 3d-card mode?
I try to change in game and then exit program and restart
but it still in softwere mode??? please someone to help me?
sorry for bad English.
way back in the day we had a friend who owned one of the early PENTIUM computers and most of us had 386 or 486 pc and some of us NO pc at all.
so all the guys would go to his place after school and take turns playing
DOOM2, to be honest I had no interest in this game at first, I just went to
his place to admire his sister's LOVELY backside, man she had a nice butt,
she had nice legs too..she would make some type of juice for us using fruits.
her bum would haunt my dreams many years after.
hey if you can't get this game to work with dosbock then
just download ZANDRONUM and place ur doom.wad/doom2.wad
in the folder and you can play in windows with no problem.
I hope this was helpful....peaceOUT~
this an cool game too, its that wandering around hallways game and attacking anything hat gets in your way
anyone know how I can play custom WADs? tried zdoom and gzdoom, no luck. can't get doom 95 to launch at all due to errors, so that's no help. any ideas?
Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I can't get the game to run in DFend. I added the deice file and named the profile DOOM2, ran it and did the "c" and "y" thing, which created the DOOM2LZH file, which I then added and ran in DFend. Now how do I play the game? When I click on the DOOM2 profile, it just takes me back to the "c" and "y" thing and the game never loads. How do I get the game to run from here?
Well, guys, this is a game you don't want to run on Windows 3.1 cause it freezes almost immediatly after the title screen.
wow-wee !this is a great game too !!!
Ok, if you want to run in DOSBox, there are several steps you have to make.
1. After downloading, run the "deice" file and press "c" then "enter", then "y". That creates a new folder in your directory (It was "Doom2" for me) with a DOOM2LZH file. (I copy and pasted it back into the main directory)
2. Run the DOOM2LZH file is DOSBox and it will install the rest of the files.
3. You can run the game, but I had no sound. I ran the "SETUP" file in DOSBox and set:
a)"Select Music Card = General Midi = 330" Enter
b)"Select Sound FX Card = PC Speaker" Enter
4. Run DOOM2 in DOSBox and you should have sound. Enjoy!
Although it is old but over the years I could not find better
does anybody knows how t0o bring up the command console??
its a classic but do anybody play it after theyve beat th game alreayds ,really? what about d3? i guess you all can go flood up all of the dead d3 comminitys thouh and resurrect the game,eh?do it work?nope!!
how do i use this with brutal doom
this game bring back so much memorys
If you want to run it with better graphics then just download GZDooM from here: http://www.osnanet.de/c.oelckers/gzdoom/download.html
There is no sound, help!
fun and addictive though i prefer doom 1 and final doom...
A very good F.P.S.
I played this with GZdoom, and my favorite wad, Invasion.uac.wad, still playing... help me...
Orangestar, The engine is open-sourced, the WAD files are still sold; so this is piracy or am I wrong?
Or run it in Chocolate Doom or another source port (look it up) :)
Thanks
I have a windows surface 8.1 , what should I set the sound to?
I always much preferred Doom 2 to the original, this one is so much darker and atmospheric.
There is a Wolf3d level?
played this with the brutal mod, so brutal. 10/10
my fav
WOW DOOM 2
You're right @M_W, I added v1.9 ;)
Good upload, but includes game version 1.666. Newest is 1.9.
remember good times do play it with my friends with my us robotics 14.400 kbps! hehehehe
Thank you for all this!
you guys are the best thanks for the upload :DD ZXD
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Gaben Approved
That is one of the best sites I have ever seen on the Internet. Thank you a lot.
out of all the doom games (Doom 1, this one, and Final Doom - excluding Doom 3), i found Doom 2 to be the hardest...
Hey people, just stopped by to drop in some advice regarding installing and playing the game
I didn't download the game from this site but if the copy is perfect then you just need to follow a very simple step
1. Get D-Fend (Google it)
2. Install it
3. Get Doom II (I got it from here, http://www.emuparadise.me/Abandonware_Games/Doom_II_Hell_On_Earth_(1994)(Atari_Inc)/93135)
4. Now just drop the package into D-Fend
5. Keep accepting the default conditions and you're good to go (Remember, DO NOT CHANGE ANY SETTINGS JUST ACCEPT THE DEFAULTS WHILE INSTALLING THE GAME)
For those having problems with sound should try installing everything with the DEFAULT and that's it
For those having problems with fullscreen, either follow one of these methods
Automatic
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1. Just select options by right clicking the game while in D-Fend
2. Select graphics under the 'Hardware' tab
3. Now change the 'Renderer' from 'surface' or something like that to 'overlay'
Manual
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1. Right click the game while in D-Fend
2. Then -- 'View DOSBox config file'
3. Look for output then change to this -- 'output=overlay'
If you still have problems then head to the DOSBox forums :)
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.