Doom/E1M1: Hangar

Note that all walkthroughs for this game are at Ultra-Violence difficulty level. Any lower difficulty level will obviously be easier and have less enemies, so expect less whilst playing through. Nightmare is too difficult even for a walkthrough.

Mission 1: Hangar
You'll start in a large room with an open section straight ahead. In the corners to your left and right you'll find a health vial. Don't shoot any of the barrels, and go to the room with the staircase to the left. Use your pistol to pick off the shotgun marines, netting you a shotgun and a security vest and some armour bonuses at the top. There's a switch on the right-hand side of the right pillar, which opens a secret door by the windows of the open area you entered the level near. Run through it and you'll be outside. Ignore the opening of the wall on the left and sprint across the slime to grab the combat armour.

You can use your shotgun/pistol to pick off some of the extra enemies around here - some normal marines, some shotgun marines and some Imps will be in the various rooms beyond the openings and you can pick them off from outside. Once you're done, Go down the stairs out here and kill the two shotgun marines. You'll find a medikit and a box of shotgun shells down here. At the end of the tunnel, open the wall and you'll emerge near the end of the level. Finish off any nearby enemies in here and head right, and through the door.

In this room there are two marines on the left for you to kill - blast one of the barrels and the explosion might get rid of them. Clear the room out and grab all the goodies. Before you head through the exit door up ahead, you can backtrack through the level and pick up all the extra items and kill the extra enemies, if you so wish. One secret area that appears when the high platform the Imps were on (in the zig-zag path slime room) lowers has a shotgun marine, a shotgun and a box of shotgun shells in it. Anyway, when you're done, head to the exit door, open it, rip the Imp inside a new one, pick the stuff up and throw the switch to leave the level.

Mission 2: Nuclear Plant
As soon as you start, sprint forwards and kill the two marines in the corridor. Sprint all the way to the end where there is a security vest for you, if you need it. Now, work your way around the room, killing the Imps and marines as you go. Once it's all clear, head up the lift in the centre section of this room to get a shotgun, and check the lift in one of the corners for a medikit and a box of bullets. Now, head around to the side of the centre section facing the side of the room with the two non-keycard doors. You may notice a discoloured wall section next to the light. Open it, and you'll find a secret area. Pick up the security vest in here if you need it, but most importantly, pick up the Backpack! You've now got double ammo capacity. Throw the switch in here, then go back out and through either of the doors.

Go up the stairs, killing as you go, and at the top clear out the room of marines and the Imp, and you can pick up the goodies as well as the red keycard. Facing outside, go back down the left-hand staircase and go through the open wall to outside. Kill the massive amount of shotgun marines out here and pick up all their ammo, and grab the Soulsphere. Keep going around, though; at the end you'll find two boxes of bullets and the Chaingun!

Go back to the room you started in, and now you can go through the red keycard door on the left-hand side. Kill the marines and go to the right. In the slime room, kill the Imp, then sprint across the slime to the middle platform. Here, throw the switch. This opens a dark maze section full of enemies. You may wonder why I told you to do this, but the maze is full of ammo and health, plus another security vest and two secret areas. At the far corner of the maze is a wall section between two grey columns - open it to reveal a small room with another Backpack in it. On the right-hand side of the maze (as you're looking into it) is a fading-light room with the security vest in it. However, you can shoot the wall behind it with a gun to open another secret area. Follow the stairs up and kill the marines at the top. Shoot the barrel in the corner to kill the Imp in the side room, and throw the switch to make the central pillar lower and allow you to grab the Chainsaw!

Head back out to the red keycard door, then go straight ahead and up the stairs. The lift to the left goes down to the side room you killed the Imp in, which has a medikit and a box of shotgun shells in it. Go back up and navigate the slime path room, and at the end check the discoloured wall on the left for another secret door which leads down to a ledge above the next room, which is full of Imps, marines and barrels. Clear it out, then go back up and use the lift to grab another box of shotgun shells. At the end of the room, flip the switch to open two doors on either side, and go through either and follow the path around to a staircase leading down to the exit door.

A bit of a sneaky tactic; the exit room is full of marines. Kill them, but watch out for the two Imps in the low section next to the exit switch. Throw the switch to leave the level.

Mission 3: Toxin Refinery
It gets a little harder here. Grab the goodies and open the door. There are lots of enemies in this room; you'll be assailed immediately by an Imp and a shotgun marine, and around the corners there are lots more enemies including two new ones, a Demon and a Spectre (look them up on the enemy page if you don't know what they are). Your new chaingun will help here, otherwise continual pummeling with the shotgun will best them. Once they're all dead grab the goodies and go to the left. Open the door at the end of the path around the central slime pit.

In this next room, quickly blast the central barrel to take out the two marines on either side, and then let the several Imps and marines/shotgun marines come into your field of view and blow them away with your shotgun. There are a lot of them. Head to the window on the right by the stairs, and you can shoot some more Imps and marines from up here. Go around and kill any Imps that come up the stairs, then go down and clear the place out. There's some ammo and armour up the lift, but otherwise go left at the bottom and you'll find a switch. Throw it and head back up. You can open the wall section in the random alcove up here and shoot some enemies in the room beyond, but that's if you choose to go to the secret level or not (it's difficult, but fun). Anyway, go around back to the door and you'll find a wall section has opened, with a long staircase beyond it. At the top, snipe the shotgun zombies and Imps with your weapons, and head up. Clear the place out (there are some more Imps and shotgun marines, as well as a Demon and a Spectre at the back), and grab the goodies. In a small tunnel into the central section of the room you'll find the yellow keycard.

Now go back to the stairs and sprint to the bottom. Wait a bit, then sprint back up and around the central section to the right - a part of the wall up to a lit area of the wall will lower, and you can sprint onto it to access a secret area with some Imps, marines and... the Rocket Launcher! Excellent. Put it away for now, though; only use it in emergencies and/or at long range, as you do not get much ammo for it. Turn back to face the door to the previous room, and you'll notice a tunnel in the slime to the left big enough for you to go through. At the end (it's not far) you'll find a medikit and a Backpack. Throw the switch and then locate the off-colour wall section to the right of it. Open the wall and head through for some more goodies including two boxes of bullets and another chaingun. You can go up the lift for two medikits and access to the section of the level before you entered the dark bit up the stairs. But, turn around and go back through the slime tunnel. When you get to the wall you came in from, open it and sprint along the dark room to the right. The end wall will be doing the same thing as the one you just came through, and by getting on it you'll be able to access another secret area.

Down the stairs in here, kill the three Imps, and in the dark room at the end you can throw a switch on the pillar and make it drop to obtain a Soulsphere! This secret region is now exhausted, so go back up the stairs and through the dark room down to the door leading to the starting slime pit room. You'll now want to go all the way to the end where the other door is and go through it. Head through this entire next section of the level, killing all the marines, Imps and Demons as you go (be careful not to fall into the slime when you're outside). At the end, you'll find the blue keycard. Run onto it backwards - this will allow you to already be facing the enemies that come out of a wall section when the lights go out. Kill the four Imps, and head back through the level to the starting slime pit room.

You now have a choice. The raised platform allows you to access a secret wall section at the far end of the slime pit which leads to the secret exit of the level. If you do, simply follow that path to the end (you'll have to escape another monster ambush). If you go to the "proper" exit you'll not go to the secret level, not to mention having to tear through a lot more enemies (loads of shotgun marines and imps). This guide will assume you go to the secret level, as you go to level 4 once you complete it anyway. Head across the platform and open the wall at the end. Kill the Imps and the Demon, and head through to the exit door. Before throwing the switch, check the lift, as you can go up to a platform overlooking a previous section of the level which has a box of rockets on it.

Secret Mission: Military Base
This level is insane! From the start, head to just before you get to the outside section. You'll find a load of imps in a cage in the centre of the courtyard, as well as a load of shotgun marines and normal marines emerging from the four staircases on all sides. Clear the place out, and head down the at the far end of the courtyard opposite you. Kill the Imps, shotgun marines and Spectres down here, pick up the goodies, and head down the lift to kill some more Imps and pick up some more goodies. Head back up to the courtyard and down the staircase next to the corridor you started in. Down here, kill the Imps and Demons and pick up the yellow keycard. The room accessible to the side has another rocket launcher and a box of rockets, so sprint to get it, then sprint around the outside of the room and wait at the top of the stairs with your shotgun. A massive amount of enemies will teleport in on the star section, so pick them all off as they arrive. Once they're all dead, go down either of the other two staircases in the courtyard, and use the yellow keycard door accessible from them. Inside, kill the enemies and grab the red keycard, then kill the Imps and shotgun marines that come out from the wall section behind where the keycard was.

Now, run back across the room with the large block in the middle (one of the rooms off the courtyard). Go through the red keycard door, and kill all the enemies on the other side. Go around to the small tunnel at the back of the room, clear out the barrels, and throw the switch. This will trigger a side corridor to open, and the block in the previous room to lower, revealing the blue keycard and a ton of Demons. Kill them all, and grab the keycard. You can now go through the blue keycard door accessible from one of the staircases off the courtyard.

Inside this next room, kill the 4 Spectres on your side of the room, then kill the shotgun marines and Imps across the slime chasm. Use the discoloured wall section on the right to access a secret room - sprint down the staircase and across the room to the lowered platform at the end - if you're not quick enough you have to repeat it. Once up, make short sprinting jumps down the columns in turn to pick up all the goodies. Now, head back to the slime chasm room and deliberately drop down into it; follow the tunnel, and kill the Imp on the platform. Throw the switch, then head through the secret door when it opens to the lift at the end. Go up it (ignore the Imps down here; you can't fight all of them whilst on the slime) and you can go across the raised platform to the exit switch (kill any Spectres that appear).

Mission 4: Command Control
Before opening the door ahead of you, open the discoloured wall on the left; this will immediately locate you a secret area with a medikit, a Backpack and a box of shotgun shells. Open the door ahead and you'll be in a large open room. Kill the Imps and marines, then snipe a few off the balconies above by blowing up the barrels up there. You can use the middle doorway to go through to a room where there's a lift up there, but don't use it yet. Follow the tunnel opposite the door you came out of to a large room full of enemies. Clear them out, then go up the lift and kill the enemies that come out of the room that opens at the top. Grab all the goodies then head up the stairs to the large circular outside section with the circular room in the middle. Don't go in it yet, instead go to the opposite side of the room and down the stairs. Clear out the enemies, and you'll be next to a slime tunnel. Facing the ledge where the Imps were on, go left for a Soulsphere, a rocket launcher, and several other goodies.

Run off the ledge where the Soulsphere was to be back in the starting room. Choose any way up to the circular room you like (all three corridors lead up there eventually) and approach any of the four doors - they'll open automatically, revealing a massive amount of Imps inside. Finish them all off, then pick up the goodies, chaingun and blue keycard inside. You'll now want to head out the circular area to the grey room (leading to a new area of the map, if you use Tab to bring it up). Go left first of all and kill the shotgun marines. Then, head right and work your way through the rooms, killing off the Imps, marines and Demons. You'll be able to pick up some more rockets and shotgun ammo along the way. You'll reach a point where you can't go any further, so turn around and head back into the room with the blue keycard door. Open it, and you'll be inside a maze.

Whilst you make your way through it, keep watching your back - there are lots of ways the many Imps and Demons in here can sneak up behind you and inflict some serious damage as you try and run backwards into them. The way you want to go is to the straight corridor, and follow it all the way down, then take a right, then a few lefts and you'll see the room beyond the slime pit if you went right at the junction before entering the maze. Grab the yellow keycard, then go up the stairs, press the button by the yellow keycard door to raise the bridge to the exit, then go through and across. Hit the switch to end the level.

Mission 5: Phobos Lab
This level ramps the difficulty up again, this time adding in lots of Spectres. To start with, a Spectre will cross the slime in front of you to attack you - kill it whilst it runs towards you. Once you've dealt with it, kill all the marines and Imps that follow it. To begin with, ignore the door in front of you, and the steps up next to it, and head down the corridor to the end. There will be two Spectres and a shotgun marine at the end - kill them. In order to gain access to the random opening on the wall beyond the slime once you emerge into the slime room, simply walk out onto the walkway and a bridge will rise up out of the slime. Turn around and go back to the steps up to the room straight ahead from where you entered the level.

Up here, you can turn left and snipe some of the various marines in the open section beyond the door that I told you not to open. This will make your life easier later on. Turn around and walk along the bridge in the slime room. At the end, kill the shotgun marine and Imps and grab the medikit and yellow keycard at the end of the corridor. From here, you can kill the enemies in the room beyond (assorted marines, Imps and a Demon or two). Turn around and go back to the slime room, but stay at this end of the bridge. To the left of the walkway you went on earlier you'll see the wall goes concave, and that the middle section of that wall is discoloured. Sprint down onto the slime and quickly run over to the wall and open it - this reveals a secret area with a couple of medikits, a rocket launcher, some rockets and a combat armour.

Walk to the end of the corridor and the wall will open automatically for you. Go to the door I told you that you shouldn't open, and open it. Kill off any remaining enemies out here (you won't have been able to snipe them all). Go through the yellow keycard door on the left-hand side of the outside section. You'll immediately be assailed by a load of assorted enemies. Kill them all, then go right. Interact with the wall below the high ledge to lower it, and get on. At the top, facing the way you got on the lift, open the right-hand wall. Inside, you can pick up some shotgun shells. Use the wall at the end of this chamber, and it'll open to reveal a larger area with a load of goodies including a Partial Invisibility Sphere. You have three choices here, as the path beyond the pentagram in the centre of the room leads to a blue-keycard-locked wall which you can't open yet. You can either go right from where you entered and go back out into the outside section. You can use the pentagram in the centre to return to the start of the level, or simplest of all, turn around and retrace your steps to the circular room.

Head down either of the staircases to the bottom. Once you get there, you'll be attacked from all sides by loads of enemies, so cut your way through to an open space and you can turn around and pick enemies off steadily. These enemies will come from the slime pit section at the bottom, and from two previously-closed off side rooms that you couldn't distinguish from the wall. Kill them all off and then grab the medikit in the alcove opposite the slime pit. You can then open the wall behind where the medikit was for a Radiation Suit. Turn around and cross the slime pit to the platform on the other side, and hit the switch. As you do, the two pillars will lower, revealing a shotgun marine and an Imp on each. Kill them off. You can then ride each pillar individually (you can step back on the switch platform to lower them again) to get the combat armour (ledge to the left of the switch when facing it) and box of bullets (to the right). Retrace your steps to the outside section.

Out here, you can run straight across from the yellow keycard door to a newly-opened section. Go up the stairs and go left. Kill all the enemies as you go, and make your way to the switch in the alcove in the dimming light room. Hit it, then head through. There are a lot of enemies down this dark tunnel, so kill them all. There will be a room overlooking the outside section at the end with a couple of Imps and Spectres in it; kill them and grab the blue keycard. Hit the switch to open a door down the stairs to outside. Head down and kill the Spectre at the bottom. You now have another choice - you can battle through what's beyond the blue keycard door down here, or you can take the sneaky way in which this walkthrough mentioned before was also blocked off by a blue keycard door. Go back to the circular room using the door to outside you just opened up and use the right-hand lift to get to the secret room. Go around the pentagram and turn the corner to find the secret entrance.

Go inside - this is why you're taking the secret entrance because this small area is really dark and disorientating and full of Spectres. If you quickly want to get to the exit, sprint left and hug the wall - once you reach a corner follow it around to find the door. If you want to clear this place out; you can do so. Blowing up the barrels near the marines and Spectres makes your life a lot easier. In addition, there is a secret area along the wall to the right of the secret entrance which leads to some goodies and a Light Amplification Visor which makes it a doddle to see in the dark room. Once the place is clear, head to the exit door. Open it, kill the three sneakily-placed Demons inside, and throw the switch to leave the level.

Mission 6: Central Processing
To start this level, shoot the marines and Imps through the grates to either side of the corridor ahead of you. Go along the corridor and you'll be in a small outside area. You can't go left, as there are a pair of red keycard doors at the end. Head right, and kill the various enemies in the long room. At the end, grab the red keycard, and immediately turn around and pull out the chaingun - there's a lot of ammo for it in this room, and you'll need it for dealing with the hordes of assorted enemies that come piling out of secret areas in the walls. Once they're all dead, pick up the remaining goodies and head straight back across the open area to the red keycard doors, and open either one of them. Kill the enemies in this corridor section, and at the end watch out for the small room set back into the wall opposite the blue keycard as it contains two Imps and a Demon. Grab the blue keycard.

Looking out across the slime pit, drop down off the end of the platform where the blue keycard was and hug the wall to the left around until you get to a secret area with combat armour. You can head through the corridor down here for some more goodies, ending with a Light Amplification Visor, a Partial Invisibility Sphere, and two boxes of rockets. However, do not use the switch to re-emerge near the start of the level. Turn around and go back to the edge of the slime pit. Dash across the slime pit around to the other side of the room (around the right-hand wall, past the blue keycard platform) to pick up a Radiation Suit, then head through the low tunnel opposite where the blue keycard was and go up the lift at the end for a Soulsphere. Go back to the corridor in the left-hand secret section, follow it to the end, and use the secret door to emerge back at the start of the level.

You will now want to go straight on and through the door. Clear out the room of assorted enemies. The door at the far end past the computer pillar is a yellow keycard one, as are the two in either corner of this room, so don't bother going that way. Instead, leave the room to the right (looking from where you entered). In this outside section, kill the marines on the high platform and snipe a few of the Imps beyond the large grate on the other side of the area. Head across the walkway and approach the blue door. Turn around when you get near, as the high platform will have dropped revealing more enemies and a secret room containing another Radiation Suit.

Go through the blue door once you've dealt with these enemies. You'll be in a series of cross-shaped walkway slime rooms and dark tunnels forming another maze. Find your way to the opposite side where you'll see an illuminated switch - this opens the maze's exit. You can also take a hint from the arrow formed by a group of cleverly-placed armour pickups, and open a secret wall for a Computer Map. Once you've cleared the place out and thrown the switch, you can leave the maze to the room beyond the large grate you saw from outside, and pick up the yellow keycard in here. Once you do, turn around quickly and kill off all the enemies that come out of the wall section.

Find your way back through the maze to the outside again. A load of Imps will come out of a previous dead-end in the slime - kill them, then follow the slime path all the way to the end for some goodies. You can then go through the door, kill the shotgun marines, and drop down. You'll be outside the section of the level originally blocked off by the yellow keycard doors, and you can get in there and obtain a Soulsphere whilst you're at it by lowering the pillar the Soulsphere is on and then opening the wall. Be careful however, as there are a lot of enemies in here. Clear out the place, then go right from where you entered the area and throw the lit switch to open the next area.

Back in the main area of this wing of the level, a new door has opened which some enemies will appear from. Kill them, then go down either of the side tunnels to the room at the end. In here, kill off the enemies, then approach the switch in here. A load of doors will open in the walls, revealing lots of enemies. Deal with them all, then hit the switch. Go in some of the hidden wall sections until another one opens, revealing a load of Spectres and the exit door. Kill them all off and go through the exit door. Inside, kill the last Spectre and leave the level by throwing the exit switch.

Mission 7: Computer Station
This is the last strictly "proper" level of the first episode, and it's pretty long and difficult. Start by opening the door and blasting the two barrels to either side to kill the two shotgun marines who will ambush you from the sides and the Spectre that runs towards you. Sit here for a while and kill off the various Imps and marines as they approach until it looks like the coast is clear. You can have a look around this area to finish off any stray enemies and pick up some goodies, but the only way you can leave for the mean time is to the left of the area (looking from the way you start the level facing, otherwise right on the map). Head that way and you'll find a room with a fading light. Kill the Imp on the lift in here, and go up it. Kill the shotgun marines and Imps at the top and work your way around to a room with two shotgun marines and the yellow keycard in it.

Drop down to the floor. Around the corner from here (near the window looking outside) you'll see a yellow keycard door. Head inside and work your way around the centre section killing off the enemies. Once they're dead, use the lift on one side to go up to the centre section. Clear it out and you can go to the end for a rocket launcher and a box of shotgun shells. Go back down and find the corridor with the illuminated entrance. Head all the way down here, past the blue keycard door, to the stairwell going to the right. Up here, kill the marines and Imps, then approach the pillar and kill the shotgun marines as the pillar drops. Ignore the pillar for now and kill the enemies in the vicinity - some marines come from the open passage to the right, and some Imps come from behind the automatically-opening door. Once they're dead, snipe some of the various enemies on walkways from the edge of the path you're on. Now, run to the edge of the stairs you came up to trigger the pillar to lower again, then get on it and ride it up. Once it's high enough, sprint over the edge and you'll get over the barrier at the edge of the walkway and land in the slime pit. Now, sprint over to the Radiation Suit you can see (providing you went off the right edge of the walkway - if you didn't, you can go left to find another secret platform with some medikits and ammo, and the automatically-opening secret door at the end will lead to a lift back up to the staircase and a Backpack). When you get the Radiation Suit, face the wall opposite it and use the switch to open the wall. Go up the stairs for a box of rockets, then throw the switch and turn around. Head down the stairs to the slime again. Go out the other side of this tunnel area, where there's a dead-end walkway you saw earlier from one of the windows. Head around it, and you'll see a long slime path to a small platform with a Soulsphere on it. Grab it to trigger the wall to open, and you'll emerge out near the start of the level.

Make your way back to the pillar. You can ride it again to get the other secret if you haven't already. Head down the right-hand path, all the way to the end (kill the enemies along the way. Up the lift, follow the fading-light room to the end where you'll find the red keycard. Turn around and head back to the fork in the pillar room, watching out for the secret wall section that opened releasing some marines and Demons. The automatically-opening door on the left side of the fork leads to a fading light area up a lift which contains a box of rockets and a Chainsaw if you don't have one already. Either way, head back to the start of the level, and find the red keycard door. Go out on to the walkway and grab the blue keycard (kill the enemies here too, if you haven't already).

Be careful, as now numerous secret areas have opened up in the walls about the place, unleashing more enemies about. Make your way to the illuminated corridor leading to the pillar room, where you'll find the blue keycard door. Head through, killing the enemies as you go. When you reach the fork, head right, as you can't open the door to the left. Follow the path around, killing the various marines and Imps, and hit the switch at the end to open the door. Retrace your steps, kill the new enemies that have appeared, and sprint across to the exit door. Kill the sneakily-placed shotgun marines and Imp, and hit the switch to leave the level.

Mission 8: Phobos Anomaly
This is the final mission of Knee-Deep in the Dead, and it serves as a "boss" mission. To start with, hit the switch on the wall in front of you to lower the wall, revealing a load of Demons penned-in by explosive barrels. Whack out the chaingun and keep firing until the barrels detonate and all the Demons are dead. Cross the room and get on the rising platform at the end, to get a Computer Map and a bunch of stimpacks. Go left from where you started after getting them and go down to the door. Look on the right-hand side for a discoloured wall - open it for a Soulsphere. Head through the door and kill the two Demons in the side rooms. The left hand room contains 60 shotgun shells and a shotgun, and the right hand room contains 200 bullets and a chaingun, useful for what you're about to face.

Head down the long corridor to the switch at the end. Press it to lower a lift. Upon getting to the top, step off the lift and two doors will open, revealing two Barons of Hell! These are by far the hardest enemy you will have come across yet, taking numerous shotgun blasts and relentless pounding from the chaingun to die. Thankfully, though, if you've played through the episode in its entirety or have a save handy, you'll have a rocket launcher too. You'll be stuck with a shotgun and chaingun otherwise. You will want to first of all barge past the various Spectres hiding in the star-shaped arena to get the Partial Invisibility Sphere behind all of the explosive barrels, this will help by reducing the chance of the Barons hitting you and thus buying you a bit of time to use the chaingun to blow away all the Spectres that swamp you. After that, switch to the rocket launcher and pump rockets at the Barons until both are dead - it will take several direct hits to kill them, but it's faster than using the shotgun or chaingun.

When they're both dead, the walls around the arena will lower, revealing a large open space beyond. At the north end of the star is a structure located in the open space, so drop down and head towards it. Hit the switch to raise the stairs to an ornate demon symbol at the top. Step onto it to be teleported... to an ambush! You don't survive it.