![]() ![]() ![]() Doom is a brilliant homage to a classic, but falls short of achieving something new. However, what begins as a refreshing slice of a bygone era eventually drags out into a repetitive slog. It may, in fact, be better at recreating the sensations you felt playing the original than going back to the classic. Rather than jump back in with a demon-skinned linear shooting gallery, the new Doom straps modern gameplay systems on to the classic run-and-gun arena shooting of its youth. After more than a decade and a full-blown revolution within the genre it helped create, the title change was a rightful acknowledgement that Doom is a historic series, but has not been part of the conversation for a while. When it was announced two years ago, developer Id Software revealed the game would not be called “ Doom 4,” as the press had inferred in process stories and rumor round-ups, but simply Doom. The game shares narrative elements with its predecessors, so it isn’t a reboot, but it doesn’t directly build on the mechanics or story of Doom 3, so it wouldn’t be fair to call it a direct sequel, either. ![]() It’s hard to exactly classify the 2016 version of Doom. ![]()
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