You can walk forward step- by step with the Up Arrow. For example, if you walk through a door and need to fight monsters, pressing F will indicate that you are headed somewhat northeast. just press the letter R to align yourself with the direction you are heading in. If you happen to be facing slightly off from north, south, etc. Interestingly, if you are facing slightly northeast, when you hear the word 'north' spoken with a press of F, the sound will be slightly left of center in your headphones. Press the letter F to learn which direction you are currently facing. Ad the Control key and you'll be snapped 90 degrees in any direction. You can turn slowly with a press of the Right and Left Arrow keys. Unique to this game is the ability to not only travel north, south, east, and west, but to move diagonally as well. Fortunately, the game provides a number of ways for the explorer to keep track of their surroundings. There are, virtually speaking, miles and miles of corridors, rooms, and dead ends to explore. Monsters aren't the only things the game has a lot of. Sounds alert you to upcoming doors, and your EVA (envirometric vector analyzer) verbally alerts you to upcoming items such as doors, ammunition, and Did I mention monsters? O, yeah! That experiment apparently went really south. Rooms sound different than corridors, and you can even tell when you are approaching passageways ahead. Unique sounds let you know whether openings exist to your north, south, east, or west. From the sound of the emergency alert system you hear when you first begin playing the game proper to the echo of your boots bouncing off the walls near you, you know you are playing a well thought out game.

With each step, you hear the sound of your boots on the floor. Up moves you forward, Down moves you backward. You can literally walk step-by-step through every area of the game by pressing your Up and Down Arrow keys. In order to complete game play for Shades of Doom, you must explore the halls and rooms found in the nine levels of the base. You need to find these data wafers, figure out the sequence, and shut down the experiment that appears to have gone drastically wrong. Various members of the team have data wafers, so no one person can shut the experiment down on their own. The sequence involves inserting color-coded data wafers into the device in a set order. You keep reading and learn that a shut down device exists that will bring everything to a halt. Problem is, the report ends abruptly with a time stamp of 11:58 am and all indications from the nearby computer screens are that the experiment had begun. As usual, politics rules the day, and it is decided that the show must go on. Apparently there was some disagreement among the researchers as to whether the experiment the base was working on should begin promptly at noon on the day the report was written, or should be held off a while. You sit down at a computer console and begin reading a half-finished report. Are they working on genetic enhancements to humans? Completely new forms of life? As you enter the empty administrative area, you see that everyone has left in a hurry. Apparently something has gone wrong there, and your assignment is to clean up the mess. well, secret! What, exactly, you aren't sure.

You begin playing Shades of Doom by shuttling through the air toward a top-secret research base working on something very. In order for you to begin to understand the appeal of this game, let's begin with the story. Even though the game has been updated, it has lost none of its original feel. This means that it works well on today's modern computing systems. Though this is a vintage games series, Shades of Doom has been updated fairly recently. The first word that comes to my mind when describing the game is 'immersive,' and Shades of Doom was the first game I recall giving me that feeling. As fuzzy as my recollections are on how I first learned of the existence of Shades of Doom, I vividly recall being enthralled with the game as soon as I started playing it. In fact, I had to consult to even know what year the game was released. It was probably on ACB Radio's Main Menu program because, in 2001, that was where all the cool breaking news about assistive technology came from. I honestly can't recall when or how I became aware of the game Shades of Doom by GMA Games.

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