Doom (2016)
Doom is a 2016 shooter video game made by id Software and Bethesda Softworks.
Loud, fast, and unapologetically violent, Doom (2016) drops you onto a besieged Mars research facility as the Doom Slayer, the one marine demons should have left well alone. id Software stripped the original formula to its bones and rebuilt it around momentum: you cannot camp, you cannot hide, and ammunition runs dry unless you keep pushing into the fight. The result is a shooter that punishes caution and rewards aggression at every step, backed by a pounding metal score that makes silence feel like a system error.
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What is Doom about?
Loud, fast, and unapologetically violent, Doom (2016) drops you onto a besieged Mars research facility as the Doom Slayer, the one marine demons should have left well alone. id Software stripped the original formula to its bones and rebuilt it around momentum: you cannot camp, you cannot hide, and ammunition runs dry unless you keep pushing into the fight. The result is a shooter that punishes caution and rewards aggression at every step, backed by a pounding metal score that makes silence feel like a system error.
When was Doom released?
Doom was released on 12 May 2016.
Who made Doom?
Doom was made by id Software and Bethesda Softworks.
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A few thoughts on Doom
The DOOM: Original Game Soundtrack by Mick Gordon is inseparable from the game's identity. Its industrial-metal pulse and down-tuned riffs were designed alongside the combat loop, and listening to it alone still carries the same adrenaline.
Music as relentless and heavy as the game itself
Doom's pounding score by Mick Gordon is practically a weapon in its own right, built to keep your foot on the gas. Death's Leprosy hits with that same unrelenting death-metal density, The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land channels aggression through breakbeats instead of guitars, and Repo! The Genetic Opera piles industrial rock on top of its own violent spectacle.
Demons and hell breaking through into places they don't belong
The Doom Slayer wades through Mars because hell already broke the fence between worlds, and these picks live in that same breach. Supernatural sends two brothers chasing demons across the American backroads, FROM traps its cast in a town surrounded by something that shouldn't exist, Lee Cronin's The Mummy lets an ancient curse loose on the present, and Tomie's body horror refuses to stay dead.