Do you keep in mind Thatcher’s Techbase, the Doom mod that permits you to kill deceased former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, whose actions whereas in workplace rendered her extra hated by working class individuals than even the quite a few Tories that’ve adopted in her footsteps because the Eighties? Nicely, it is now playable on trendy PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
If that is your first time listening to about Thatcher’s Techbase, initially, the place have you ever been? Oh, and second of all, it mainly turns the basic shooter right into a battle with the demonic forces of a robo-Thatcher, full with sufficient union jacks to correctly persuade you that you just’re in a hellish dystopia.
Now, due to the actual fact Bethesda and Id Software program have simply launched DOOM + DOOM II, a “definitive enhanced model” of the 2 basic video games, full with “on-line cross-platform deathmatch and co-op for as much as 16 gamers” and “community-published single-player mod assist” by way of an in-game mod browser, you’ll be able to kill Thatcher on trendy consoles.
“Excellent news everybody! Thatcher’s Techbase is obtainable to obtain and play within the new official DOOM + DOOM II port that launched yesterday,” the mod’s creator, Jim Purvis, tweeted, at first assuming this is able to permit it to be playable on PlayStation, Xbox and the Nintendo Swap.
Nevertheless, in devastating information for individuals who need to smash out a degree of Thatcher-crony killing in between Mario Kart races, the latter it seems remains to be Techbaseless. So, to be clear the PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection X/S and Xbox One look to be the one new platforms that’ve gotten the mod by way of the remaster.
The excellent news is for these platforms, Purvis has additionally made the mod’s arcade version obtainable too, for “when you fancy enjoying the up to date model from 2022 with all of the steadiness adjustments, new boss battle and improved storyline”. “That is the one to put in if you wish to problem Jeremy [Corbyn]’s world document time,” he provides, so there’s the gauntlet thrown down.
