Secondly, the music tracks are quite literally misplaced. There is hardly a means of saving your game, leaving the player to use an archaic password system. I normally don’t rush analysis, but the presentation (or rather mis-representation) of Doom 2 was so “in my face” that I immediately noted DOOM 1 as being superior on the Gameboy advance.ĭoom 1, however, isn’t without its flaws. It was almost as if the quality had dropped with the 2nd game’s Gameboy Advance port. Doom 2, however, has enemies which had me cracking “is this ‘Gulliver’s Doom?” (please don’t make that into a mod…). Their sprites are proportionate to the player, as are your weapon sprites. Doom 1, starting off, has proportionate enemies when it comes to graphics. In other words, there are several factors making one of them a superior product and worth collecting (if gameplay is the main grading factor here).

When it comes down to Doom 1 and 2 for Gameboy advance, there is a solid divide, and one that I’m sad to admit (given that I consider both to be classics).

Quick note: this is my personal impression of these games, having played them after years of finally being able to nab them off the market: Do ID’s classic games play well enough on the Gameboy Advance to justify going out of your way to collect them? Are they close enough in “gameplay” when in comparison to their original predecessors?