Hokuto no Doom

Hokuto no Doom is a first-person shooter game created by iceman57 (Benoit Spacher) over a modded Doom's shareware IWAD that adapts the cult and largely influential anime and manga series Hokuto no Ken.
Released around 2006 and developed in order to be a standalone game and not just a Doom mod, it features masterfully crafted sprites, textures, sound effects and background music from the anime, fitting everything altogether in a very nice way.

Despite the good work shown in these resources, Hokuto no Doom never got the attention that it deserved, maybe due to the whole Doom IWAD thing or because it doesn't show up any gameplay changes. Regardless, it is a rare treat to the manga and anime series fans, myself included.

Videos


The above video was our mod's showcase. The video is good, but there are some sloppy mistakes from LichKing in the intro. If I ever remake it, I'll try to make a better text.


This one was a montage I made with Hokuto no Ken's intro, the mod's gameplay and it's E1M1 background music. People seem to like it, but I didn't expect that love at all... The music is Ai Wo Torimodose in MIDI format, made by Stephan "Selfdestructboy" Hauschildt.

Compatibility

Like I said before, the original Hokuto no Doom was developed in order to be a standalone game, however, you can use it as an PWAD as a texture, sprite and BGM pack. It should run on any vanilla or older port. In fact, it used to be distributed with Doom 95! I will try to run it in DOSBox to see what happens

It also worked with any GZDoom, ZDoom or Zandronum version I tested here. It should easily work in multiplayer as well.

In our download pack (down below) we included GZDoom 1.9.1 and a batch file, hokuto no ken.bat, for a quick play.

More

  • Metz Cathedral - Meet Hokuto no Cathedral, a Doom (and Doom II) deathmatch map created by Spacher himself in order to develop Hokuto no Doom further. The map is based on a real monument, the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz, or just Metz Cathedral.
  • Hokuto no Doom 4 Doom - A gameplay recorded with Doom 4 Doom 1.01.5 being played with Hokuto no Doom as a PWAD.
  • Hokuto No Doom @ Gaming Room - The game's post on our main website, with more information, screenshots etc. It's in Portuguese.
  • The Art Of Anime, Hokuto no Doom creator's fanpage.

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