John Romero is famously known as the co-creator of Doom, and back in 2016 he started dabbling in building a handful of new maps (known as WAD files) for his baby (“Tech Gone Bad” and “Phobos Mission Control“).
Today, in celebration of the landmark game’s 25th anniversary, Romero announced that he’s completed a brand new “MegaWAD” for Doom consisting of nine new single-player levels and an equal number of Deathmatch maps. Romero’s creation will be known as Sigil, and it will serve as the unofficial fifth episode for Doom:
Sigil is a free megawad for the original 1993 Doom created by John Romero. It contains nine single-player and nine deathmatch levels. The free megawad will be released in mid-February 2019 and requires players own the original 1993 registered version of Doom in order to play. Sigil is the spiritual successor to the fourth episode of Doom, and picks up where the original left off.
Sigil will be available as a free download in February, but megafans will be able to obtain one of two special limited editions of the MegaWAD through Limited Run Games.
According to Romero’s official website, the Standard Box will feature artwork by Christopher Lovell and a soundtrack CD from Buckethead. Those bonuses will also be included in the Beast Box, but that hulking package will also include an art print, a Sigil-themed coin, a t-shirt, and a pewter statue of John Romero’s head on a spike.
A trailer for Sigil has been embedded above. Suck it down!
