Doom (2016)

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Doom
Doom - Game's logo.svg
Studio United StatesUnited States id software
Publisher United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks
Senior Developer Hugo Martin, Marty Stratton (Creative Directors)
composer Mick Gordon
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One
May 13, 2016
Nintendo Switch
November 10, 2017

Google Stadia

August 18, 2020
platform Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
Google Stadia
Game engine id Tech 6
genre Ego shooter
Game mode Single player , multiplayer
control Mouse , keyboard , gamepad
system advantages
preconditions
  • Windows 7 (64-bit) or newer
  • Intel Core i5-2400 or AMD FX-8320
  • 8 GB of RAM
  • 2 GB graphics card (NVIDIA GTX 670 or AMD Radeon HD 7870)
  • 55 GB storage space
  • Broadband internet connection
medium Blu-ray Disc , DVD-ROM , download
copy protection Steamworks , Denuvo
Age rating
USK from 18
PEGI from 18
information German version uncut

Doom (also DOOM , formerly Doom 4 ) is a first person shooter developed by id Software and released on May 13, 2016. The game is a reboot of the classic Doom game series of the same name and was released for Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Nintendo Switch and Google Stadia .

action

In the future, Doom's single-player campaign takes place on the planet Mars , where the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) maintains various research facilities. Scientific director is Dr. Samuel Hayden, who as a cyborg is a passionate advocate of technical progress. In experiments, the UAC scientists discover another dimension, which is hell . There they stumble upon an apparently inexhaustible source of energy called Argent, which could solve all of mankind's energy problems. In addition, they discover a legendary warrior in a sarcophagus, who is in a death-like state of sleep. His body and surrounding artifacts are being taken to a UAC facility for further exploration. Hayden's colleague Dr. As she explores the dimension of hell, Olivia Pierce succumbs to demonic influence and begins to establish a satanic cult within the UAC. Hayden lets them go at first so as not to jeopardize the progress made in the use of Argent energy. When Olivia Pierce opens a portal to the hell dimension, it comes to a catastrophe and the hell creatures overrun the research facilities on Mars. In order to regain the upper hand in the ensuing fights, Hayden lets the legendary warrior, who is in stasis, resurrect. In the role of this warrior, the player sets out to kill the demons and close the portal to hell again.

Gameplay

General

In contrast to current first-person shooters, Doom does without the automatic regeneration of life energy. As in the previous parts, the player collects weapons, ammunition, healing and power-ups . All weapons have a secondary firing mode, reloading the weapons is not necessary. In the single player mode it is also possible to keep all the weapons you have collected in your inventory permanently.

The borrowings from the classic games in the series are supplemented with modern game elements. A new feature are finishing moves (so-called "glory kills"), which make it possible to kill weakened monsters with melee attacks. A "rune" system can be used to increase certain characteristics of the character, such as life energy or speed of movement. To do this, challenges in the game must be mastered, up to three runes acquired in this way can be equipped afterwards and permanently strengthen the player.

Multiplayer mode

The multiplayer mode is played in six different modes 6 against 6.

  • Domination
  • Team Deathmatch
  • Clan Arena : Team Deathmatch without respawn .
  • Soul Harvest : When killing an opponent, his "soul" can be collected.
  • Freeze day : enemies are frozen by shelling, teammates can free them again. If a team is completely frozen, it loses the round.
  • War Path : Variant of King of the Hill that wanders the game zone

When it was released, Doom contained nine multiplayer levels. More levels were released with downloadable extensions .

development

As Doom 4

Doom was first officially announced in May 2008 under the title Doom 4 , at which time Doom should be released for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 . In August 2010, John Carmack told PlayStation Magazine UK that the development was "well advanced" and that it would take "not as long [...] as Rage " to complete. After the first suspicions arose in mid-2012 that Doom would no longer appear on the then current generation of consoles, but would be developed directly for the next generation of game consoles, publisher Bethesda Softworks announced in spring 2013 that development of the game had been discontinued at the end of 2011 and has since been reported a completely new development was worked on. In August of the same year, developer Tim Willits said in an interview with IGN about the restart of development:

“It wasn't just one thing. It wasn't that the optics were bad or the programming was bad. [...] Every game has a certain 'spirit'. [...] And Doom didn't have that spirit. It had no soul, it had no personality. It had a certain schizophrenia, an identity crisis. It didn't have the passion and the soul that characterize an id Software game. "

- Tim Willits

As Doom

In February 2014, publisher Bethesda officially announced the game under the name Doom as part of a trailer release for Wolfenstein: The New Order . At the same time, a first beta test program was announced, in which those who pre-ordered Wolfenstein: The New Order should receive exclusive access to a closed beta test. A first trailer was shown at E3 2014, another trailer at Quakecon in the same year. As part of the Quakecon, it was also announced that Doom should again orientate itself more towards the start of series, and should specifically dispense with elements of current shooters, such as the automatic replenishment of life energy. At the same time, an explicit representation of violence, including finishing moves , as well as classic weapons from the Doom series was announced. When asked about the extreme portrayal of violence, Peter Hines told the Polygon game magazine that Doom is probably not for you if you don't like "violent, bloody games". The single player mode was officially presented to the public on March 27, 2016 in a one-hour livestream by the developers on Twitch . However, around one day appeared before Leak on the social news - aggregator Reddit under the title "Doom 4: Fight Like Hell".

Open beta

In April 2016, a five-day open beta phase started on the game distribution platform Steam , in which participants could test the multiplayer mode in the variants Deathmatch and "War Path" on two maps. The feedback from the community was mixed: PC gamers mainly criticized the limitation of the refresh rate (so-called "frame lock") to 30 frames per second, a lack of graphics options and a lack of a " Doom feeling". In contrast, the votes from the ranks of console gamers were mostly positive. As a consequence of the beta, Bethesda announced that it would remove the frame lock and add more graphics settings for PC gamers.

Reminiscences of the previous games

The predecessors of the series are alluded to at various points in the game. In the campaign there is a lever hidden in each level that opens an Easter egg in the form of a bonus level. These are original levels from Doom and Doom 2 , which can initially be played partially in the regular single player, later as a complete level via the main menu. In the "retro levels", weapons and enemies are displayed in the current engine, but original textures are used in the level design and objects that can be collected are displayed as two-dimensional sprites .

publication

Doom was released uncut in Germany. Due to the explicit representation of violence, the game was not approved for young people (USK 18) by the entertainment software self-regulation . A reversible cover design based on the title graphic of the predecessor from 1993 was chosen via a Twitter poll in which over 60,000 people took part . This was preceded by complaints from the community that the previous cover was generic and not typical for Doom .

The game was also released in a Collector's Edition that included a figure of the Revenant, a skeletal monster from the game. The art book for the game was published in English by Dark Horse Books under the title The Art of DOOM in June 2016.

On September 14, 2017, a Nintendo Direct announced the release of Doom for Nintendo Switch in the 4th quarter of 2017. It was released on November 10, 2017.

Extensions

Bethesda announced three paid download add- ons and a “Season Pass” that includes all DLCs for the time after the release of Doom . With the downloadable content, the multiplayer mode should be expanded with more maps, weapons, pieces of equipment, playable demons and customization options. In addition, players could create their own maps using the SnapMap editor and exchange them with one another. In July 2016, “Unto the Evil” was released, the first expansion that expanded the main game with three multiplayer maps as well as the new Demon Harvester, the UAC EMG Pistol weapon and the Kinetic Mine equipment item . In addition, there were some new optical customization options for the Doom Marine.

Since July 20, 2017, "Update 6.66" has integrated all the expansions into the main game, so every owner or new buyer of the main game received the expansions free of charge.

reception

Rating mirror
Aggregated ratings
publication Rating
Metacritic 85/100
GameRankings 85%
Individual ratings
publication Rating
4players 78%
PC Games 83%
GameStar 86%
Computer picture games 2.08
IGN 71%
Game Informer 8.75 / 10

Doom received mostly positive reviews after its release. Metacritic recorded (as of May 21, 2016) an aggregated Metascore of 84/100.

Within two weeks of its release, Doom was sold more than half a million times on the Internet distribution platform Steam . In July 2017, the mark of two million copies was reached on Steam. The game has won several awards:

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 (E3) Bethesda announced an offshoot called Doom VFR for the virtual reality glasses PlayStation VR and HTC Vive . At E3 2018, the development of a successor under the title Doom Eternal was announced.

Web links

Individual evidence

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Doom
Main series

Doom • Doom 2 • Doom 3 • Doom (2016) • Doom Eternal

Offshoot

Final Doom • Doom 64 • Doom RPG • Doom Resurrection • Doom 2 RPG • Doom VFR