Every bullet and point of armor was precious. There wasn’t time to be faffing about, dying, and restarting areas so I’d focus on optimal play. I’d laugh uncomfortably, wait a few minutes and slink away for one more quick session before leaving).īecause of the limited time I had with the game I was very focused on progress, on seeing more of it than I had before. I played it at my uncle’s house, disappearing into the family den for what were frankly impolite periods of time (they’d half-joke that I was there to visit the PC instead of them. Instead, I sniffed it out like water in the desert and I coveted my play sessions with it like a man half-mad with dehydration. Growing up without a PC, I didn’t have the luxury of playing it at home.
It was also something I would never, ever do in the original Doom. The kind of murder-zeal that provides a sliver of truth to the moral guardians and their hand-wringing over the implications of video game violence. It’s been a glorious celebration of violence. It often means plunging streams of miniature rockets directly into the eye socket of a cycloptic Cacodemon. Sometimes this means mowing down a pack of Imps with an irresponsible amount of hot-lead delivered from three red-hot chainguns firing simultaneously. Sometimes this means rushing headlong into a Hell Knight and unloading double-barrel blast after double-barrel blast of buckshot straight into its guts. I always use the most powerful weapon at my disposal for the present situation with total abandon. I cranked the difficulty up to Ultra Violence right from the start on the recommendation of trusted individuals who promised the added difficulty would bring out something sharp and nasty in the game. I’ve played through the latest Doom with one singular goal – maximum aggression at all times. No, I think Doom (2016) is a better game than Doom (1993) because it solved a simple problem of the original. I don’t say this because of the fancy 3D graphics, or the pure murder-fuel soundtrack, or even the fact that you can look up (though those are all pretty great in their own right). I think Doom (2016) is flat out a better game than Doom (1993).
But, in the spirit of the over-the-top escalation that defines the Doom series (why use a shotgun when you can use a super shotgun? Why cut down demons with a chaingun when you could mulch them with a triple-chaingun?) I’m gonna take it a step further. I suppose this is going to be another one. There are already tons of articles, opinion pieces, and editorials out there gushing about it, talking about how successfully it captures the spirit of the original Doom. And by now, all the reviews have been written, everyone knows its great. I picked only picked up the game a few weeks ago. I was late to the party with the new Doom.
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