WHen people tell you about how great DOOM was there may of course be a bit of nostalgia(because they grew up with it), and there are some people who would tell you the game hasn't aged well. Well those people are idiots. I never played DOOM back in it's heyday, I wasn't born yet. My first experience was on the xbox with the Doom 3: BFG edition. I was mildy irritatted that you couldn't look up or down/jump, but it was still awesome, and I played it intensely until completed. And this was after I played some more "modern" shooters like Halo, ETC, but I still preferred DOOM. Halo was slow and I had to be consistently hiding to regenerate shields. DOOM was fast, fun, and had secrets on every level. I could speedrun through a level, or I could take my time and kill every monster, and look for secrets. And I recently have gotten back into it. It really is one of the best video games ever, and I'm telling you this from the perspective of a 20 year old who grew up with shooters like COD, Halo, and Battlefield, It's not just middle aged people looking back with rose tinted glasses. It really is that good. It's even better now that recent games have to try to be the next COD. You should absolutely buy this game unless you are one of those pretentious whiners who complain if there isn't a cutscene in between every shootout. If you want a good narrative, seriously, go read a book. DOOM has what it needs, and honestly the game benefits from it's lack of plot development. ON a completely different note the game has a large amount of modders that are still active to this day, and I myself enjoy making maps/modding it. But if you do buy this be sure to grab a source port. I haven't downloaded the GOG version yet but I bought them on steam and just copied the wad files into a source port. Here's a couple of awesome ones. http://gzdoom.drdteam.org/ http://zdoom.org/News And also DOOMWORLD for an active community and modding resources http://www.doomworld.com/ Have fun!
