
Doom
id Software
Taste attributes: actionhorrorscience fictionmonster/alien/supernaturalrobots/ai/spacevehiclesfastfresh & originalunsavouryheavyimaginarysimplebig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questfighting evilfish out of water/culture clashhuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardyself destruction/implosionunderdog triumphs
Boxlist takeOtherworldly and unsavoury: a simple shooter, big and varied rather than confined. Best if you like edge over warmth.
Pace: fast · Originality: fresh · Tone: very dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: very simple · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score
IGDB rating
83 / 100
1,009 ratings
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About This Game
In the future, humans have left Earth and settled throughout the galaxy. On Mars, the Union Aerospace Corporation has established a radioactive waste facility and allowed the military to conduct teleportation experiments on the nearby moons of Deimos and Phobos. Hours ago, the base on Mars began receiving incoherent distress messages from Phobos, while Deimos has disappeared completely. With all attempts to establish contact failing, you and your team have been dispatched to investigate. Upon arrival, you secure the perimeter as the rest of your team enters the facility. As you stand guard, your radio crackles with the sound of gunfire, cracking bones and blood-curdling screams and eventually falls silent. Alone, with no way off the planet or means to defend yourself other than your trusty pistol, there’s only one way out - into the complex of death and the horrors that await you within....
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Story
The player takes the role of a marine (unnamed to further represent the person playing), "one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action", who has been incarcerated on Mars after assaulting a senior officer when ordered to fire upon civilians. There, he works alongside the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), a multi-planetary conglomerate and military contractor performing secret experiments on interdimensional travel. Recently, the teleportation has shown signs of anomalies and instability, but the research continues nonetheless. Suddenly, something goes wrong and...
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- Developer
- id Software
- Publishers
- id Software, Imagineer
- Released
- 10 December 1993
- Series
- Doom
- Platforms
- Windows Mobile, PC-9800 Series, Linux, DOS
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- First person
- Time to beat
- 4h rushed, 7h normally, 15h complete
- Age rating
- PEGI 16
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- IGDB
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