It was identical to Doom II, but came with two different Expansion Packs: TNT: Evilution, created by the third party modding group TeamTNT (originally intended to be free until id struck a publishing deal with them ) and The Plutonia Experiment, made by two members of the group in four months' time, generally considered the hardest of the official packs. In between Doom II and 3, Final Doom was released the same month as Quake. And they were right.įollowed by Doom II: Hell on Earth, which saw the demons invading Earth, which was a huge success. The game also introduced the idea of multi-player death matches and co-op missions in a modern FPS, with its developers fully expecting Doom to be the biggest cause of decreased productivity in IT companies the world over in 1993. Also, whereas Wolfenstein's fortresses all had identical lighting, Doom featured variable lighting, including flickering and glowing lights, adding to the game's atmosphere. Even the player's own face, shown near the health counter as in Wolfenstein, became battered and bloodied with damage.ĭespite this, it was indeed a big step forward in First-Person Shooter technology unlike its predecessor, walls could be at any angle rather than at 90 degrees, a rudimentary form of height was introduced, and monsters outside the room one was in could hear and come after you.
Gameplay was extremely gung-ho - the makers 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 chainsaws, chainguns and the original BFG, a massive weapon which could reduce an entire room of monsters to viscera. Not only was there a very high amount of frank Satanic imagery (albeit all cast in a highly negative light), it was filled with graphic depictions of zombies and monsters being blown apart, eviscerated, shot to pieces and generally disintegrating into piles of gore. The release of Doom was met with unprecedented controversy regarding its content. He fights his way through the creatures in search of a way off Phobos, finding himself transported instead to Deimos, now residing in the creatures' homeland, which turns out to be none other than Hell itself. When teleportation experiments between Phobos and Deimos cause Deimos to vanish and a horde of grotesque monsters to invade the Phobos base, our hero is the only human left alive between the two bases. It follows the story of an unnamed Space Marine posted to the Union Aerospace Corporation's base on Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Id Software's follow-up to Wolfenstein 3D was Doom, which represented a big step forward in the art of texture mapping, and an even bigger step forward in videogame violence.
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