Multiplayer shooters are a dime a dozen nowadays, with a new AAA title released and forgotten every few months (sorry Evolve). The constant yelling of the announcer is the only real noise in the game. All the explosions, jumping around and general mayhem brought me back to the olden days of blowing up my friends in grade seven computer class. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it, I was just really bad.ĭOOM feels a lot like Quake games of yore. I have old man aim and can’t shoot at a guy darting around with a jump pack who’s also trying to kill me. I’m not a big multiplayer shooter fan: the only FPS games I enjoy usually have a story like Mass Effect (I know it's third-person) or Half-Life/Portal. The DOOM Beta was last weekend, which featured the game’s multiplayer mode. When I heard about the new DOOM I got excited and scared at the same time, like how a dog feels on a car ride, unsure if it’s going to the park or the vet. The sense of true terror those games have inflicted on my psyche still scars me I can’t even look at pictures the Mars rover sends back. Doom created the horror shooter genre, Doom 2 perfected it and Doom 3 and Doom 4 made me never want to go to Mars for fear of demon attacks.
