When DOOM revealed its box art, people weren’t exactly crowding around their browser and whispering “aaaaawwwwwww yeeeeeaaaaaah” at the high resolution JPEG. If you’ve ever had any graphic design experience, you can see that the cover itself is just terrible. It relies too much on a dark shade of orange, much like Hollywood posters do these days when they juxtapose that colour with teal.
The main character is posed in a stock standard position that could make you confuse him for a Crysis or Halo character. The negative space makes the character look like he has been forcibly squeezed into the cover. Basically, it’s a piece of box art which just doesn’t pop at all, and feels more like a Battlefield or Call of Duty case clone. Thing is, id Software isn’t ditching that cover, no matter what the fans have to say. What they are doing instead however, is proving an alternative cover in a reverse sleeve for Doom.
And that’s an idea which should satisfy everybody. For starters, here’s the original terrible artwork:
Whoops, wrong one. Here we go.
DAMMIT! Okay, third time’s the charm:
And here are the alternatives, which id wants people to vote on, via Twitter. Click to embiggen:
Option B is my personal favourite. It’s a beautiful homage to the original DOOM, a game that was so gory and demonically violent when it was first released, that it looked like a Megadeth album come to life. And that’s the kind of artwork that DOOM needs to sell itself. Blood! Demonds! Guns! Chainsaws! Now that’s how you market DOOM.
Cover option A isn’t too bad either, adopting a “less is more” approach that looks like a Rob Zombie Ouija board, except you’re not actually throwing your money at a completely pointless superstitious board game designed to milk money from tourists and teenagers who want to contact the dead for reasons.
Remember, DOOM is getting a beta just before launch, although details on when that is going down, still need to be ironed out before the May release of the game on Xbox One, PC and PS4.
Last Updated: March 4, 2016
SentientSlug
March 4, 2016 at 08:36
the current one is perfect man!!!!!!!!!!! Dangit gamers can complain.
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:54
Its just very generic. There is plenty room for improvement, and if they can improve it, why not? The original Doom cover was so iconic, but this one looks like a Halo 6 cover. It’s just not, Doom.
Ir0nseraph
March 4, 2016 at 08:56
Yeah the cover needs a update, if kids take the parents to the shop the parents need to thing damn is my kid old enough to play this ?
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:56
Yes. Yes they do.
Hammersteyn
March 4, 2016 at 08:57
Parents still think that?
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:57
That could be a 3 word sentence, and it’d still work.
Hammersteyn
March 4, 2016 at 08:58
Confirmed!
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:59
Confirmed!
^ That’s how it’s done. 😛 Scrub
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
March 4, 2016 at 09:07
You called?
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 09:08
ohaidere 😛
Sageville
March 4, 2016 at 09:52
Agree here, is it Halo? or Destiny?
I think a good DOOM cover would need a focus on the hordes of demons in the backgound….
Alien Emperor Trevor
March 4, 2016 at 08:43
B is way better, looks badass and over-the-top cheesy – everything Doom is meant to be.
Hammersteyn
March 4, 2016 at 08:49
http://bee-stings.net/bee_logo2.jpg
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:50
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^
Hammersteyn
March 4, 2016 at 08:52
XD
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:52
I actually hope the soundtrack is as metal as the original Doom. If not, fuck that I’m putting my own soundtrack over it.
Hammersteyn
March 4, 2016 at 08:52
YES!
Kromas untamed
March 4, 2016 at 08:52
Justin Bieber sountrack with every copy of Doom.
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:52
GET IN THE SEA
Kromas untamed
March 4, 2016 at 08:53
Oh baby baby baby please! 😛
Hammersteyn
March 4, 2016 at 08:53
Well, we do fight the spawn of Satan in the game.
Kromas untamed
March 4, 2016 at 08:53
Can’t wait for someone to mod his face on all enemies.
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:55
I’d download that mod XD
Ir0nseraph
March 4, 2016 at 08:54
XD
Alien Emperor Trevor
March 4, 2016 at 09:03
DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOMITY DOOM DOOM DOOM
Jan Prins
March 4, 2016 at 09:31
Nah man! They should go with some Inspirational 80’s stuff. You know, music they would play during the Rocky/Kickboxer/Any Generic Action flick training/weapon grabbing scene.
“Hearts on Fire!” BLAM! TAKE THAT DEMON
“Strong Desire!” EAT MY CHAINSAW HELL KNIGHT!!!
Jan Prins
March 4, 2016 at 09:35
Or better yet! Richard Marx!
“Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you!”
And then, at the end of every level, you find some haggard space marine telling you your Girlfriend is in another sector of Mars.
Damnit! Why am I not writing the plot lines for video games???
Hammersteyn
March 4, 2016 at 08:57
DOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 08:57
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Jan Prins
March 4, 2016 at 09:28
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Sageville
March 4, 2016 at 09:53
Duhm!
HvR
March 4, 2016 at 09:18
That black cover is lame, wants me go sacrifice a cat instead curb stomping a demon.
oVg
March 4, 2016 at 09:22
I never knew the protag in DOOM was Samus Aran.
th3SiCn3ss
March 4, 2016 at 09:31
Doom B!!!!!!!!!
Viking Of Science
March 4, 2016 at 10:14
The First one reminds me of a Venom album cover, Which is great, but I did end up voting B…
https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/d2ad8774-9173-4970-8427-06b04df201c1/albumcover/black-metal-51c18db278cd2.jpg
Commander Admiral Chief
March 4, 2016 at 10:19
http://orig01.deviantart.net/6649/f/2011/058/0/0/zim_obama_poster___doom___by_captainvendetta-d30hg2m.png
oVg
March 4, 2016 at 10:24
This is better
oVg
March 4, 2016 at 10:27
Less is more
Pariah
March 4, 2016 at 10:31
Except when you’re talking brain cells…
oVg
March 4, 2016 at 11:11
mmm, the wiser you are more dumb you become. Its the fool on the hill, that sees the sun going down. I need a coffee.
GooseZA
March 4, 2016 at 10:43
Option 2 please!
chimera_85
March 4, 2016 at 11:03
A)