Reds Over World

Reds Over World is a 2024 DOOM mod made by Wojti2000. It tells the story of military operations during the Third World War - a escalation of the Cold War which resulted in the Soviet Union invading NATO countries.
The playable characters of this mod are Yuri Semashkoshov, Martin MacDonald and Nicolas Alceste. The mod contains 30 playable maps divided into six campaigns, two for the Soviet Union, two for the United States and two for NATO.
Currently, a 2.0 Version is in the making, fixing bugs, patches and gameplay issues that players reported.
==Development==
thumb|250px|"Bondowad", the Cold War mod concept that predated Reds Over WorldThe author wanted to create a Cold War themed wad as far back as early 2020, it was going to be an espionage-themed wad in which the player fought terrorists that were hell-bent on conquering the world using paranormal powers. The project's working name was "Bondowad". The project was not working out, and the author was going through extremely severe mental health problems back then, so the project was cancelled (however, fragments of two maps from this project were used in Reds Over World as a homage).
The actual mod's development started in fall of 2020. Back then, the author was working on a mod named Mystery Of Tyskie Islands 2, but he grew bored with it as it reached near-completion, and decided to do some sprites of Soviet soldiers and animated Communist country flags as a side-project. These sprites and flags were originally meant to be just an enemy pack done for testing purposes and fun, but soon the author decided that an entire DOOM Wad can be made around them. Back then, the mod's plot and worldbuilding was much different
thumb|250px|Very early 2021 screenshots of Reds Over WorldThe mod's development was kept in almost complete secrecy, with the author publishing WIP screenshots on his fan Discord and videos on his channel, but only proclaiming them to be "test maps" and "test videos" and not revealing their true origins, only disclosing it to some of his most trusted collegues, including Tyrannotitan Fan, who started helping him with coding. The first ever footage of Reds Over World, back from 2020 is "Pancor Jackhammer shotgun in DOOM II" .
 
The mod's development was revealed on his fan Discord server on the 22th of September 2022, and publically, it was revealed in August of 2023, on his DeviantArt, FurAffinity and the ZDoom Forums. On December 9th, 2023, the mod finished development, and entered beta-testing stages; the beta-testing concluded on January 18th, 2024.
==Official publicity blurb==
1990. The Armageddon Clock has struck the dreaded zero hour - the Third World War just begun. The Soviet Union and it's supporters are launching an assault on the rest of the world. As the Soviets, supported by the rest of the Warsaw Pact, spearhead the assault on both Europe and the United States, the Asian communist nations, under the guidance of China, support them on all fronts, setting their sights on the Pacific. The world is turned into a battleground once more, and both the Allies and the Communists are not finished until they see their enemies destroyed.
You will be put in the shoes of three men during this time - a Spetsnaz Operative of the Red Army, an Allied Marine, and an European Agent, with six five-mission campaigns (spanning 30 missions in total!), as you'll battle your way through Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and both Americas - both behind the enemy lines... and in the center of the battlefield!
-Gameplay and style in homage to the shooters of my childhood, such as Far Cry 1, The Punisher, Call Of Duty 1, or I.G.I. 2!
-Fight a myriad of diverse enemies - soldiers, guard dogs, Tesla Troopers, turrets, drones, Soviet experiments (not of the sleep kind, trust me) and even entire BUILDINGS!
-Battle all over the world, from the Siberian wasteland through Eastern European cities and American towns to warlord-infested savannahs of subsaharan Africa and deserts of the Middle East!
-Spread carnage with over 10+ different Cold War-era firearms, from both the NATO and Warsaw Pact sides!
-Discover a story without any gameplay-interrupting cutscenes, presented with Command & Conquer-styled pre-mission briefings and radio communications!
-Wolfenstein-styled boss and mini-boss battles, each different from another, and armed with dangerous weaponry!
==History==
See also: Timeline
The mod takes place in 1990 and 1991, during the Third World War between the socialist countries and NATO forces.
==Gameplay==
The gameplay of Reds Over World, compared to other DOOM mods, is slower, and meant to be a cover shooter, not a mod meant to be played with the traditional DOOM run-and-gun gameplay. The player can utilize Portable Medikits to heal himself. For added realism, there is no display of how much ammo is left in the gun before reloading.
To progress in the levels, the player must also solve puzzles - for example, finding right Keycards or Keys to open doors, shooting at suspicious looking objects such as fire extinguishers revealing hidden passages, or finding switches that disable security mechanisms.
==Maps==
===First Soviet Campaign===
*E1M1 Red Haze
*E1M2 Rocket's Red Glare
*E1M3 Swallowing Dust
*E1M4 Wasp Nest
*E1M5 Riptide
===First US Army Campaign===
*E2M1 Country Roads
*E2M2 Big In Japan
*E2M3 Goodbye Blue Sky
*E2M4 Coastal Service
*E2M5 El Presidente
===First NATO Campaign===
*E3M1 Balkan Job
*E3M2 Enter The Iron Dragon
*E3M3 Running Man
*E3M4 Atom Heart Fatherland
*E3M5 Colonialism
===Second Soviet Campaign===
*E4M1 Avalanche
*E4M2 Heavy Metal
*E4M3 Trance L Vania
*E4M4 Dragon's Destiny
*E4M5 Area 51
===Second US Army Campaign===
*E5M1 Race And Chase
*E5M2 African Warlords
*E5M3 Liberator
*E5M4 Submechanophobia
*E5M5 Inhuman
===Second NATO Campaign===
*E6M1 Breakout
*E6M2 City Of The Damned
*E6M3 Power Play
*E6M4 Ragnarok
*E6M5 Zenith
==Version History==
===26.01.2024===
Game is released
===30.01.2024===
Patch no. 1 is released, fixing several bugs
*Manual reloading added.
*Missing scripts added to E2M3
*Blockmaps added to E1M1's grates
*Wrong keycard door replaced in E2M3
==Trivia==
*The name Reds Over World was originally a working title invented by the author's friend, but it stayed as the final name. Some of the planned "final" names included Crimson Strife, Red Alarm, Red Haze, SPECTRE: Cold War, Iron Strike, Red Strike, SPECTRE, SPEKTRE, Desert Storm, Red Strike: Reds Versus Allies, DESTRO, Battle Nexus, Crimson Strike and SPECTRE: Black Ops.
**The game's working title even before Reds Over World was Jori after Yuri from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
*The concept of a mass alliance of all communist nations came from the author's previous project, an ARG named Imć Onufry Srakachujowa that was running from August 2016 to February 2021. In it, the main character believed that all communist nations are working together to destroy the free world.
*The mod's plot and concept was originally different and a lot of it was cut before 2021
**The look was not meant to be as realistic as it was conceptualized since early-to-mid 2021
**East Germany was going to be one of the Soviet allies, including a mission where the player must destroy the Berlin Wall, before the author realized it's too late for East Germany to still exist
**In 2020 during the very early development of the game, NATO - then called the European Union - was meant to be the twist villain faction. They were supposed to be using the war for their own benefit, at first pretending to be on USA's side, only to then reveal themselves as supervillains that plan on controlling the world utilizing a giant Hadron Collider, fighting both the USA and the Soviets. The textures of flags - that still show the EU flag hanging in a Nazi banner-like way - are a remnant of this era. This faction went so far in programming as having enemies written for it - namely, blue-uniformed, black-beret wearing soldiers that carried P90's and spoke German and British English.
**The world was conceptualized as more chaotic, divided and wacky, featuring smaller factions such as a Lovecraftian cult, or a race of robots with a green-and-black color scheme, that was a homage to the Racing Drones from the Acceleracers franchise. This very early era also had the human world divided into several factions - the European Union, the Soviet Union, the African Union, the Arab League, the Latin Confederation and the Asian Communists.
**There was going to be a level which would be using Serious Sam-style gameplay in which a player is in a mecha suit. This is why the Desolator Cannon is named MechBron in game files, as it was originally made as the mecha suit's weapon.
**Zombies created using the Tunguska Meteor were conceptualized instead of Mutants.
**More paranormal concepts were meant to exist, such as Soviet Siberian Shaman soldiers, American Skinwalker and Wendigo soldiers, etc.
**Several more bosses were conceptualized, such as a obese female American general, a father-and-son family of African-American US rocket generals, a parody of The Rake, a parody of Pol Pot named Wawrzyniec Pot, or the US president, George H. W. Bush.
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