Endgame: A Novel (Doom, 4)

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Summary: I Feel I Must Explain The Ending
Review: Since, well, that seems to be the largest problem with the book everyone is having, heh.

Yes, the book is great. Not argueing it is not wholly different than Doom 1, but it does a wonderful job of expanding upon the universe and making the bad guys far more than just "demons that want to eat your face!". Others have said everything I could hope to about the book, so instead shall get right to the chase

OK, the ending.... endings I suppose

First half, the computer sims of Fly and Arlene that end up stuck in the computer simulation of the memories of their battles. Them being there forever is the ending to it, here is how you should look at it. At that point in the story, after returning to Earth, the 'marine' in both the real Fly and Arlene was dead. There was no more war to fight, there was no more marine corps, there was no more people. They had to rebuild, not destroy. Think of it as Valhalla, the viking heaven where warriors went to fight an endless battle for all eternity. The warriors parts of them died and ended up in a valhalla of their own creation, the parts of them that could never stop fighting now never have to, fighting a war of their creation.

Meanwhile, the living Fly and Arlene return to Earth, find the tower and the new human clones inside. What kind of ending is that? That is finally beating the aliens once and for all. Remember earlier that the aliens had evolved so much they became a part of human DNA, making them unkillable by the humans in the process, but also trapping them. Well, the humans beat that, new human clones of the humans of the past in the tower, who are free of the alien DNA and able to rebuild civilization fresh, while the aliens off on their planets hide in corners and fear death at every turn.

It was a victory, the aliens used their final tactic, make the two species become one in order to intermingle the fates, can't stop the other without killing yourself. But because of Albert's love for Arlene, they won, they beat the aliens at their own game and preserved the human race until the aliens had left.

I always have loved the books, I felt the endings were excellent, really good way to tie them together. Highly reccommended :)

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Summary: Great books never put them down
Review: The book Final doom was good. I have read the whole series and I loved them. Because I could not ever put them down, I always wanted to know what would happen next. What was around the next corner, what the new monster was. The Doom series was more than books, it felt like I was actually there. The authors made a great series out of a game that I liked to play. The last two were more adventure than action but good none-the-less. I just can't wait for the new book to come out. After Final Doom they can't end the series the way they did. They hav e made it big and very good. It's a gripping book that says "Read me". This is deffinately the best series of books I have ever read before in my life.

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Summary: Ending is confusing.. but i have an idea.
Review: The books are great if you love DOOM.
the ending is confusing.. but you gotta use some imagination.
the bad guys arent there at the end cause the DOUBLE arlene and fly stopped the badies in their linage of the story.

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Summary: The Best
Review: The books go way beyond the game and have so much detail it's amazing. They should make a movie of it and have Bruce Willis as Flynn Taggart.

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Summary: Great book, but whats with the ending?
Review: The Doom series is awsome. Great for anyone even if you don't like videogames. Endgame was a great book but the wierd ending of the novel didn't make a shred of sense.

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Summary: Whooo!
Review: The entire series was awesome. It took a different look than a dismal game take-off. The ending was unexpected and made me think. I just wish they'd create a follow-up or address it in a movie. Oh well, semper fi.

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Summary: Truly one of the best books in the series!
Review: The fourth and final novel in the series is arguably the second-best, even better than Hell on Earth, but not quite as good as the first novel. This book was the second totally original one, and it was MUCH better than the semi-dismal Infernal Sky before it. The part where the Newbie tries to sabotage the Fred ship (the Freds are the main enemy, the aliens behind the genetic-experiment demons invading the "old mud ball", as Fly would have put it) is great, and the flashback/cpu program that brough both Fly and Arlene back to the Phobos base gave us some well-needed shooting action for the Doom name. A great conclusion to a great series.

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Summary: The DOOM Novel Series Goes Out with a Bang!
Review: The fourth and seemingly last chapter in the DOOM novel series is excellent! It really doesn't have too much to do with DOOM, but it still has an excellent story all it's own, filled with suspense, drama, and that old Fly Taggart humor you come to expect. This one is my favorite in the series next to the original, "Knee-Deep in the Dead". And I, too, hope that a DOOM movie comes out! That's my two cents.

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Summary: End Game (No. 4)Doom series
Review: This book had lots of action and great detail. I rated it as a seven because it had a good storyline and was a book that I could follow. This book stood out from others I have read because it really caught my attention. It wasn't rated higher than a seven because I think the ending could have been better. At the end there was a part where I really got lost. It just made no sense. But over all I would recommend this book along with the rest in the series to anyone who likes sci-fi and adventure

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Summary: Could have been better...
Review: This book has been an almost complete failure of the once popular game.Fly taggart the hero and his female sidekick Arlene Sanders are the main characters through the series.The whole story was mixed up and a warped version of the series. But it did have action in some parts so if you a die hard fan of the game give it a try... otherwise Get Resident Evil series don't even make Eye contact with DOOM.