8 Mods Better Than The Actual Game
5. Brutal Doom
How do you improve upon one one of the greatest and most important first-person shooters of all time? Brutal Doom, that's how.
This 2010 mod for the O.G. Doom brings a whole ton of added value to the table, with its beefed-up gore, enhanced visuals, new weapons like a flamethrower, driveable vehicles, headshots, fatality animations, and hugely improved enemy AI.
The mod became a smash hit in its own right, being downloaded more than 5 million times in a decade and catching the attention of Doom co-creator John Romero, who said that Doom would've "destroyed the gaming industry" if it launched with all the features of Brutal Doom.
Though Romero also added that the original experience is how it's meant to be played, you'll find a large quotient of fans who think otherwise.
Sure, you can argue that the original recipe is more balanced and less exhausting, but Brutal Doom is an absolutely hysterical example of what can happen when fans remove all the guardrails and crank everything to 11.