Knee-Deep in the Dead
Doom's free first episode: eight levels through the demon-overrun UAC facilities on Phobos.
Knee-Deep in the Dead is the first of the three episodes of Doom, the 1993 first-person shooter by id Software, each of which contains eight main levels; the other two are The Shores of Hell and Inferno. In it the marine fights demons and possessed humans in the military and waste facilities on Phobos, after a base there urgently requests military support and Deimos disappears entirely. The episode ends with the marine defeating two powerful Barons of Hell guarding a teleporter to the Deimos base. id published Doom as a set of three episodes under the shareware model and released this first episode free to market the full game.
Quick Facts
- Game
- Doom (1993)
- Episode
- 1 of 3 (4 in The Ultimate Doom)
- Final boss
- Two Barons of Hell
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- A fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed, was added in The Ultimate Doom two years later.
- In 2016 John Romero created two new levels for it, E1M4b 'Phobos Mission Control' and E1M8b 'Tech Gone Bad'.
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