DOOM (2016)

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Interestingly it’s the logo redesign that perhaps reflects best which course is being served. Whilst the original 1993 DOOM logo had a labyrinth motif embedded, adequately hinting at the complexity of the level design found within, the new logo has been seemingly washed with bleach & stripped of its artistic nuance. What a perfectly apt illustration for this new iteration. Enter COD with demons, complete with focus-testing & tailored to a mainstream lowest common denominator market yearning after spectacular instant gratification kills for that micro-dose of dopamine, only to repeat it ad nauseam in a futile attempt to keep momentum going. Somehow this apple fell so far & hard from the tree, splattered on the ground into applesauce, lay in the sun to fester unrecognizably, until someone scraped up the remains and baptized it as "Apple 2016". One cannot possible claim with a straight face that a series that arguably started as a thinking man’s shooter boiled itself down to this, and still call it “true to its roots”? It demonstrably isn’t. Being merely in possession of all the ingredients doesn’t make one a kitchen virtuoso. If I (happily) want to turn the gore & violence dial to 11 whilst scratching that old school labyrinthine itch, there is always Brutal DOOM. But pushing 40, perhaps somewhat jaded, growing up with the OG iterations, the fact is that DOOM 2016 is wasted on me, no matter how persuasive the bad-ass Mick Gordon guitars & glory kills montages present themselves as.

Second time I bought this game. I already have over 270 hours on my steam account with barely 10 hours on snapmap/multiplayer. I managed to reach top 100/1000 worldwide records in Arcade mode(Steam Leaderbords), and I felt a little shy to see that in this GOG release leaderbords I'm mostly amongst top 3 xD. GOG Users better get ready for the DOOM Eternal release in 2029, and 2034 for The Dark Ages.

Corridor / Arena shooter, very bland and repetive. Before playing this, i was playing Blood II, and guess what? That buggy game is much more funnier than this abomination called Doom. Makes me wonder how it managed to get such an high praise.

I like it! well! that meets the min 30 chartacter review