Once Duke regains consciousness, he finds himself prisoned in a strange and scary place. He feels the heat of lava below and a foul stench of burnt corpses penetrating his nostrils. Surrounding him are similar cages situated above a molten pit, their residents now just charred flesh and bone. Nearby a cave begins to open. Angry growling echoes from the other side…
Just another one of those facilities currently dealing with an alien invasion, this time a research station located somewhere in the Californian desert running some mysterious experiments referring to a plant entity titled “The Root”. But the answers to those questions can wait another day. Duke infiltrates the facility after hiding inside a truck with his trusty Chaingun Cannon in hand.
BAUHAUS takes you on a journey across a series of four levels inspired by an art movement and school started in the 1920s. Modern architectural designs and twisted halls of physical fine art takes the spotlight. Hostile engagements around open areas will be constant, dangerous ambushes await in enclosed spaces and anything could be lurking beyond that next corner already alerted to your presence.
Aliens have decided to grab a beer at a modernised British pub in Lynnchester called The Flaming Shipwreck, slaughtering the local folk and causing all sorts of trouble. Being too much for the local police force, Duke has been assigned to remove their presense from the area.
Word has it that the heretical forces are lurking within the frozen caverns nearby, plotting their evil schemes or perhaps wandering around with aimless goals. Doesn’t matter though, they must be cleared out to forbid them any advantage. The only entrance there is by boat and thus you set sail toward their current lair.
Blake Stormarrow is an agent of the King of Theraen who has been sent to Murwynd Woods to meet up with Sultor, another agent in the same service, to investigate the strange happenings around the region in the aftermath of the Mount Grimrock’s explosion.
DUKEHARD is a communtiy project consisting of seventeen different maps all tied around a common goal. Started and organised by MetHy, every mapper was tasked in creating a single floor design, based from the provided template to be part of a larger multi-story building. Fourteen additional authors jumped aboard contributing to the project with varying results. Duke must work his way to the top conquering one floor at a time.
The aliens have take advantage of the Doom Marine’s absence from his base and began an assault to claim it for their own purposes. With his hands tied up elsewhere he gets in touch with Duke to lend some help.