I remember the first Doom game back when I was a kid. I believe we had it on the Sega Genesis. I wasn’t too into games back then so I pretty much loaded them up, fiddled around, and quickly turned them off after quickly becoming bored. I remember most games at the time being platform left to right runners, and racing games. Doom really stood out to me even back then with my lack of video game interest due to it being an immersive 3d first person game.
Lately I’ve been looking for a new game to play. I recently upgraded my graphics card to a EVGA Geforce 980 TI FTW, and i haven’t really been able to play any new games to take advantage of it due to the lack of interest in recent games. Division is a mess with cheaters, as is Rainbow Six Siege. I was able to max out graphics in Battlefield 4, but for some odd reason I get so bored of Battlefield now and rarely finish a game.
So, I’ve been waiting, and constantly looking for a new great game to play. At first I wasn’t very interested in Doom 2016 when it was announced. As i said, I didn’t play the first all that much, and I’ve read that the multiplayer isn’t that fun. However I started to watch movie reviews, and my favorite youtuber (Stefan Molyneux) who mostly does Philosophy videos, had a random review of Doom 2016, and it was enough to make me finally decide to buy the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLLcwmNKJI
I just want a game that I can load up and just kill a bunch of stuff, without much thought, or without worrying about a complex story line. I just want to shoot and kill! Doom 2016 seemed like the perfect game for that.
While Doom 2016 doesn’t have a crazy story line, it does have a story to help give the game some purpose. The basic story line is that you’re on Mars and some company that uses hell and demons to do something has created portals, and some crazy lady set the demons free, or something, and its your job to MASSACRE ALL THE DEMONS and close the portals and stuff….. (I think?!)
I got the game for about $38, from key site, and it took about 12 hours to download the game on Steam.
This morning the game was finally done downloading and I launched it. First thing I noticed is it doesn’t support my Ultra Wide monitor’s 21:9 resolution, instead I had to play with black boxes on the side. luckily my monitor is a decently sized (29″) so even with black boxes on the side I get a nice view.
** Sorry about the screenshots being crappy. The game is so fast paced that the majority of my screenshots came out blurry, ha**
Almost immediately upon loading into the game I had demons in my face and was slaughtering them. The game looked incredibly sexy, and ran so smooth. I left the graphic settings on default, and I’m sure I could max them out, but I just left them due to it already looking super sexy.
The game really looks and acts just as the original doom did, just better mechanics and graphics. The gameplay, atmosphere was the same, if not more immersive. The visuals combined with the audio, really puts you there. The music is amazing and really pumps you up when you’re shooting EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!
The controls are smooth and fluid, the combat is nice. The AI is awesome. Don’t think they’re stupid just because they’re demands, I’ve been flanked many times and destroyed by them, and I’m playing on normal mode.
There is something super satisfying about smashing a Demons head in, or beating them with their own arm.
One of the things I noticed, as I did with the original Doom, and also Duke Nukem 64, is that I started to get some sort of motion sickness. I can play nearly any FPS game just fine, such as Half Life, COD, Battlefield, etc, and not have a single problem, but for some reason Doom makes me feel sick. I did some googling and I think its due to the lack of head bobbing. In Doom, you’re pretty much just floating smoothly in the air, and I think this plays some trick on the brain and makes some feel sick, and its not just me that is having this issue, many others are. Some others suggesting altering FOV, which I haven’t adjusted or messed with yet.
edit: I played more this morning (the next day), and I didn’t have much of an issue with feeling sick, so maybe you do adjust.
The game is super fun, so I hope this is something I can get used to and no longer feel sick. I didn’t play the original Doom much in the early days to adjust to it, same with Duke nukem 64.
There is an interesting level builder in the game, which I haven’t messed with yet, but seen it in the video reviews and it seems cool.
Over all, this game is fun, SUPER HUGE FUN! It’s fast and its action packed. If you enjoyed the original Doom, you’ll especially enjoy Doom 2016. If you’re looking for a fast paced game where you can just massacre an entire room of demons without much thought and don’t care for a in depth story line, this game is for you.
The game isn’t easypeasy run and gun though, there are super demons, and i keep getting los ton levels, and i have to walk in circles before I find a new opening where i can get to another part of the map. This could be due to alot of the levels looking the same all over, or me just being a dumbass. But it does seem like many of the maps are puzzles, not in a sense you gotta solve little games in order to proceed, but in the sense you gotta look around and figure out where the hell to go. You do have a navigational indicator on the top Hud Compass, but its just a directional icon, you gotta figure out how to get there—up down over, inbtween, etc.
I can see this game having a huge amounts of replay value, that is if you feel like killing stuff, especially since people can easily create their own levels using the built in map editor.
I’m only like an hour into the game, and I’m having a BLAST. Even with the minor sickness.
I tried the multiplayer and its MEH, It’s okay. It’s certainly no reason to pay $60 for the game, or even the $40 I paid. I hope they can improve the multiplayer. The multiplayer has several game modes as you would expect in a modern online FPS, but its just not very fluid or interesting.
As I stated, I bought the game on a Key site, which is where you can buy CD KEYS for games that can be activated on Steam, Origin, UPlay, etc at a super discounted price. I pretty much buy all my games this way, and I’ve never had an issue.
The site I bought my copy of Doom 2016 on is Kinguin.com, but there are many other sites you can use, such as: G2a.com and CDKeys.com, and I’ve used all of these sites multiple times and Never had a single issue. I suggest them, but use them at your own risk.
If you don’t trust the key sites, and want to be legit, or whatever, you can buy the game directly from Steam here.
