Doom's weapons would include both hitscan, and projectile weapons which enemies could dodge, as well as splash damage weapons and the legendary BFG. Wolfenstein's weapons all behaved identically as hitscan weapons, with only the rate of fire changing. Even the player's own face, shown in-between the health and armor counter, became increasingly battered and bloodied with damage like in Wolfenstein.Īlso, whereas Wolfenstein's fortresses all had identical lighting and walls that were always the same height, always aligned in perfect 90º angles, and always with a minimum distance between corners or another wall, Doom featured variable lighting (including flickering and glowing lights, adding to the game's atmosphere), differing vertical heights, and walls that could be angled at any orientation and have any amount of distance to a corner or between walls (including distances too small for you or an enemy to walk through).Īnother feature was expansion of the weapons.
Gameplay was extremely gung-ho and to-the-point - the developers noted that the manual could have simply read, "If it moves, kill it" - and encouraged the player to attack with reckless abandon, using such implements as a chainsaw, your own bloody fists, shotguns, machine guns and the almighty BFG, a massive weapon which could reduce entire rooms of monsters to viscera. People who play video games, however, would have referred to all of the above as "lots of fun for the whole family!" Not only was there a very high amount of explicit Satanic imagery (albeit all cast in a highly negative light), it was filled with graphic depictions of zombies and monsters being blown up, eviscerated, shot to pieces and generally disintegrating into piles of gore. The release of Doom was met with unprecedented and massive controversy regarding its content. While searching for a way off Phobos, he instead finds himself transported to Deimos, now residing in the creatures' homeland, which turns out to be none other than Hell itself. Teleportation experiments between Phobos and Deimos cause the latter to vanish and open up a portal to allow hordes of hellbound monsters to invade the Phobos base, leaving the marine as the only survivor. Our hero is an unnamed space marine (nicknamed Doomguy) who, after putting his commanding officer in a full-body cast for ordering him to fire at innocent civilians, was assigned to the Union Aerospace Corporation base on Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Doom, id Software's December 1993 follow-up to Wolfenstein 3-D, was an astronomical leap forward in video game design, and an even bigger step when it comes to video game violence.
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