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== Gameplay ==

{{See also|Doom (1993 video game)#Gameplay}}

[[File:Thatcher's Techbase gameplay.png|thumb|Doomguy fighting a chaingunner with the new [[Winchester Repeating Arms Company|Winchester]] shotgun. Pro-Thatcher [[propaganda]] is visible in the background.]]
''Thatcher's Techbase'' is a [[WAD file|WAD]] for ''Doom 2,'' and largely retains the same [[first-person shooter]] gameplay, but features new weapons, levels, and enemies.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Price|first=Renata|title=To Win The Game You Must Kill Me, Margaret Thatcher|url=https://kotaku.com/to-win-the-game-you-must-kill-me-margaret-thatcher-1847681908|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Kotaku|date=15 September 2021 |language=en-us}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Clayton|first=Natalie|date=2021-09-15|title=Hunt down a resurrected Maggie Thatcher in this frightfully British Doom campaign|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/hunt-down-a-resurrected-maggie-thatcher-in-this-frightfully-british-doom-campaign/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=PC Gamer|language=en-US}}</ref> The WAD supports co-op and [[deathmatch (video games)|deathmatch]], and it offers five difficulty levels.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Good|first=Owen S.|date=2021-09-15|title=Doom mod resurrects Margaret Thatcher as a Cyberdemon|url=https://www.polygon.com/22676226/margaret-thatcher-doom-mod-thatchers-techbase-soundtrack|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Polygon|language=en}}</ref>[[File:Thatcher's Techbase gameplay.png|left|thumb|Doomguy fighting a chaingunner with the new [[Winchester Repeating Arms Company|Winchester]] shotgun. Pro-Thatcher [[propaganda]] is visible in the background.]]

== Plot ==

In ''Thatcher's Techbase'', Margaret Thatcher, "one of humanity's greatest threats",<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mason|first=Richard|title=You can hunt Margaret Thatcher through Hell in rework of classic video game|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/19584618.hunt-margaret-thatcher-re-imagining-doom-released-free/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=The National|date=16 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> rises from the dead, leading the player to descend into the tenth circle of Hell, the United Kingdom, in order to kill her and send her back to Hell.<ref name=":0" />