Doom

Doom is a video game that consists of 15 releases

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Wolfenstein 3D may have come before it, but Doom was the game that made id Software famous around the world, while simultaneously making the first-person shooter all the rage in PC gaming.

Overview

Released in 1993, Doom was unleashed on the gaming public shortly after id Software's breakout production, Wolfenstein 3D, established a base level of expectations for early first-person shooters. Doom quickly became a smash hit around the world, producing a then-unseen level of graphic fidelity and realism. There were over 10 million downloads of the game's shareware version. The game's violence may seem crude and comical by today's standards, but all those blood-red pixels were enough to stir up controversy right alongside Mortal Kombat during the first wave of video game violence criticism, which led to the establishment of the ESRB rating system that North American games still use to this day.

Story

Doom puts the player in the role of a nameless character that's referred to externally as "Doomguy," from a space marine force for the Union Aerospace Corporation. The UAC has been experimenting with newfound teleportation technology on the moons of Mars, which goes awry and opens up a portal to Hell, flooding the human base with demons. It's the player's job to clean up the mess and make it back to Earth alive. The first episode called "Knee Deep in the Dead," is the marine's journey through the moon Phobos. He blasts his way through various labs and facilities until he meets the two Barons of Hell. He blows those two away to get to Deimos where the second episode, "The Shores of Hell," takes place. The labs and facilities on Deimos have been completely overrun by the forces of hell. The marine blasts his way through Deimos to get to the Tower of Babel, where the Cyberdemon waits to attempt to make our marine into tomato stew. The marine then blows him away, and goes to close the portal in Hell. Hell is where the final episode, "Inferno," takes place. He travels through various cities and places mentioned in the bible until he gets to Dis, where the Spider Mastermind lives. He kills the Spider Mastermind and all is good with the world... Well at least until id goes on to make an expansion pack for the game which adds an episode "Thy Flesh Consumed." This episode takes place when the marine goes back to Earth. He blasts his way around places that look nothing like Earth at all, and blows all these demons back to Hell. At the end of the episode, we find out that he really just wanted revenge for his pet rabbit that they killed.

Pop Culture

Doom's importance in the rise of gaming's popularity can't be understated. It generated a massive influx of new game players, established "deathmatch" as a term to mean free-for-all competitive multiplayer in a shooter, and was also one of the first games to inspire a large amount of user-generated content, including new maps and full remakes based on Aliens, The Simpsons, and, of course, hardcore pornography. Some of the creators of Doom hoped that they would decrease productivity of businesses around the world, as stated in a press conference. This actually came true, because after the game's release people who worked in office jobs would hog up the bandwith spending time playing deathmatch. The game has also generated controversy due to it being one of the first games to have such a horror and satanic theme... along with bloody explosions of guts and heads and the like. On the "PTV" episode of Family Guy, Stewie is show in first person perspective cycling through the level E1M5.

Music

Doom's music was interesting to note because, it could be said that it was one of the first game's to actually use rendition's of actual music tracks into the game. While the game did have original music tracks into the game, many were actually either, riffs, verses, or other particular pieces of actual songs from Heavy Metal groups. The groups are: Pantera, AC/DC, Metallica, Slayer, Judas Priest, and S.O.D.

E1M1 is based on Metallica's "No Remorse" verse.
E1M4 is based on Pantera's "Rise" main riff.
E2M1 is based on AC/DC's "Big Gun" verse and also comparable to Helstar's "Burning Star".
E2M2 is based on Metallica's "Call of the Ktulu" main opening.
E2M3 is based on Pantera's "Regular People (Conceit)" main riff .
E2M9 and E3M1 is based on Pantera's "Mouth for War" main verse.
E3M3 is based on Slayer's "Behind The crooked Cross" opening and main riff.

E3M8 is based on S.O.D.'s "Sargent D and the S.O.D." main riff.

If you cheated while playing the Sega 32x version of Doom, after the game ends you would be taken to a fake DOS prompt.
You could not quit it, and the only way to escape the screen was to reset the console. If you did not cheat, you get an extra cutscene.

General Information Edit

Game Name	Doom
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance SNES Xbox 360 PlayStation 3DO Jaguar Sega 32X Saturn Xbox Live Marketplace PC
Publisher(s)	id Software
Developer(s)	id Software Nerve Software, LLC
Genres	Add a new genre First-Person Shooter
Themes	Add a new theme Horror Sci-Fi
Original US Release	Dec. 10, 1993 need a fuzzy date?
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