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DOOM-Teaser

We’ve known for years now that id Software is hard at work on a new Doom title. A few days ago Bethesda announced that the first gameplay reveal would be exclusive to QuakeCon attendees. That reveal took place yesterday, and despite there being no leaked footage we now have a very good idea of what Doom will be. And yes, it’s officially Doom –  and not Doom 4.

 That’s because this new Doom is acting as a reboot, and not a continuation of Doom 3. Doom will take place on the planet Mars, but id Software was cautious about calling it an origin story. This also allows id Software to reboot some of the things that Doom 3 did wrong nearly ten years ago, which according to Geoff was quite a bit.

Doom will call back to some of the gameplay the original title had. Fast, run and gun gameplay is making a return in this new iteration, with players never forced to stop moving and take cover. Attendees noted that the game had a great sense of verticality to it, allowing you to jump and mantle onto ledges to escape enemies, or come face to face with new ones.

Speaking of enemies, there’s going to be a lot of fan favourites returning. Hell Knights, Cyberdemons, Revenants and more were seen during the two gameplay demos. These enemies now have the ability to teleport in for random ambush attacks, and it’s all sounding very old-school. There’s even no reloading of clips, no limit to how many weapons you can hold and no regenerating life. This is Doom as the 90’s knew it.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Doom demo without some insanely big guns, and attendees were treated to early looks at the iconic double-barrel shotgun, the Plasma Rifle and the massive BFG. But the weapon that got fans roaring apparently was your characters hands, believe it or not. Doom features some extremely gory melee executions. Ripping jaws off, tearing hearts out, it’s all there; like something you’d expect from Mortal Kombat.

Doom will run on id Software’s new id Tech 6 engine, which means the game will hopefully not suffer terrible texture pop-ins. This also means the game is strictly next-gen only – coming to  Xbox One, PS4 and PC. A few people were surprised at how much was shown at QuakeCon, suggesting Doom is a lot further in development than we think.

Early 2015 release perhaps? All I know is that I really, really want to see this gameplay now.

Last Updated: July 18, 2014

70 Comments

  1. Sweet! Sounds like they took a leaf out of the enemies from Halo 4 which ain’t a bad thing and then threw in old-school weapons into the Doom 4 blender.

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  2. Sir Rants A Lot Llew

    July 18, 2014 at 09:34

    Someone must have taken a vid. We need to see this!

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  3. Hammersteyn

    July 18, 2014 at 09:37

    “There’s even no reloading of clips, no limit to how many weapons you can hold and no regenerating life” DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM is back baby

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    • Umar Fong Wong

      July 18, 2014 at 09:39

      HealthPacks….!!YES!!

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      • Hammersteyn

        July 18, 2014 at 09:41

        Also no more cover based shooting, no more carrying just two/three guns. No more reloads. No more quick scoping. Welcome to FPS you little COD bastards!

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        • Viking Of Science

          July 18, 2014 at 09:42

          And Hopefully an “Always Run” Option, with no Stamina bar…. It’ll bring a tear to my eye…

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          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 09:43

            It will, I guarantee it. They ticked all the other boxes.

          • Rags

            July 18, 2014 at 09:44

            It should have strafe jumping :>

          • Viking Of Science

            July 18, 2014 at 09:45

            Even if it doesn’t I’ll Pay all the money for someone to Mod it into the game…

          • Zubayr Bhyat

            July 18, 2014 at 10:03

            And crouch sliding.

          • Rags

            July 18, 2014 at 10:10

            Let’s hope not. :<

          • Skyblue

            July 18, 2014 at 10:59

            That’s a Quake thing. DOOM is plenty fast enough without strafe jumping. Check out the Quakecon DOOM finals, sick speed.

        • Viking Of Science

          July 18, 2014 at 09:49

          Basically, Reject Every “feature” that Halo Sullied our FPSs with…. 😛

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          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 09:51

            Well Halo has it’s place in the world, so does COD(maybe) I’m just so happy we get to play proper Doom again.

          • Viking Of Science

            July 18, 2014 at 09:58

            *Clears throat* I Remember A Time Before Limited Weapons and Regenerating Health, When The FPS was a playground, When games could be based on Mute Space Marines, Undead Cowboys, Rednecks, Misogynists, Racist Stereotypes, and they were all fun. That Era gave us the freedom to run Straight into problems, and solve them with technique and speed. When Controls were tight, and you only failed because you messed up, There was no Cover, We Didn’t need it…. Those Were The Good Days, The Hard Days… They were The 90s!

          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 10:08

            Now if they can do the same for Duke Nukem I would be soooooooooo happy.

          • Weanerdog

            July 18, 2014 at 10:14

            I failed a lot 🙁

      • Hammersteyn

        July 18, 2014 at 09:44

        Also probably Red,Yellow and Blue keys?

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        • Sir Rants A Lot Llew

          July 18, 2014 at 09:45

          I will be super happy to have keys again in games 🙂

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          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 09:46

            I bet this sells 5 000 000 in the first couple of months (Enough zeros @OddSockZA:disqus ?)

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew

            July 18, 2014 at 10:11

            What’s the deal with 0’s? I was off ill these last 2 days. I missed something?

          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 10:18

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew

            July 18, 2014 at 10:24

            bwhahahahaha. Dat comments section! hahahahahaha

          • Admiral Chief Saxon

            July 18, 2014 at 10:18

            Geoff missed a few 0’s last week in article

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew

            July 18, 2014 at 10:23

            lol

          • Rince&pop

            July 18, 2014 at 10:25

            I thought we found them yesterday? 🙂

          • Viking Of Science

            July 18, 2014 at 09:47

            Give ME Maze like Levels! With Keys! I Want a Maze like level!

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew

            July 18, 2014 at 10:10

            Exactly! I want that too.

            Who remembers the insane mazes in Descent? Yoh. Some of those were hardcore

          • Skyblue

            July 18, 2014 at 11:03

            Descent used to confuse the kak outta me. You needed far too much spacial awareness to play that game.

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew

            July 18, 2014 at 11:11

            I rocked at that game. Mate of mine and I were #1 and #2 at school. We owned

        • Umar Fong Wong

          July 18, 2014 at 09:51

          My man! You’re such an old school gamer! the strafe is strong with you

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          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 09:53

            HAI

        • Skyblue

          July 18, 2014 at 11:00

          Yeah and those EPIC maps!

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    • Skyblue

      July 18, 2014 at 10:58

      Sounds like it. I just finished watching the Quakecon DOOM finals. Still an awesome game.

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  4. Viking Of Science

    July 18, 2014 at 09:37

    So Another Old School inspired Shooter a la Shadow Warrior and Wolfenstein… Total.Win.

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  5. Umar Fong Wong

    July 18, 2014 at 09:39

    Hopefully it will feature The Rock

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    • Ryanza

      July 18, 2014 at 10:04

    • Rince&pop

      July 18, 2014 at 10:25

      Too SOON 🙁

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  6. CAE9872

    July 18, 2014 at 09:45

    Yah!

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  7. Rags

    July 18, 2014 at 09:46

    I hope it has kickass oldschool deathmatch multiplayer too. :> Quake 4 and Doom 3 MP was a bit meh. Or a new Quake Live would also do without the 60fps cap. :>

    Oh and the Quake Live action last night was epic. Watched 300 Rise of a Nation on my other monitor and missed like 95% of the movie. 😛

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    • Hammersteyn

      July 18, 2014 at 09:48

      YES!

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    • Viking Of Science

      July 18, 2014 at 09:50

      Well iD did create the deathmatch in the OG Doom…. So To leave it out, would be criminal.

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    • Skyblue

      July 18, 2014 at 11:05

      Cypher took it right? I never finished watching.

      Quakelive needs gibs more than anything else imo. I miss my gibs.

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      • Rags

        July 18, 2014 at 11:41

        Finals are tomorrow I think check esreality for times 🙂
        Dahang vs Cypher in the final. Tox vs Evil in 3rd place playoff.

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        • Skyblue

          July 18, 2014 at 13:44

          Thx

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  8. Ryanza

    July 18, 2014 at 09:55

    I played Rage and I liked it. That Ak47 was good and that shotgun was so much fun. And from what I heard the Xbox 360 version looked nice and run at 60fps. So expect Doom 4 to run nicely on new consoles.

    Please let the Rage shotgun be in Doom 4.

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    • Johan du Preez

      July 18, 2014 at 10:36

      IF ID software does one thing really well its single and double barrel shotguns. Im sure its going to be as satisfying. My favourite shotgun is the double barrel from Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom.

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      • Admiral Chief Saxon

        July 18, 2014 at 10:38

        I love that reload animation!

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        • Ryanza

          July 18, 2014 at 10:39

          Was just thinking about it and the sound.

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          • Ryanza

            July 18, 2014 at 10:42

          • Admiral Chief Saxon

            July 18, 2014 at 10:43

            Such memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 11:01

            Still jam 1 and 2 on PS3

          • Skyblue

            July 18, 2014 at 11:01

            I do on PC with updated music (metal) and a few interesting mods. Still a wicked experience.

          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 11:03

            I would love to hear that music

          • Skyblue

            July 18, 2014 at 11:11

            Skip forward randomly, it’s all pretty epic though. Same music just redone.

          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 11:25

            Thanks!

          • Admiral Chief Saxon

            July 18, 2014 at 10:42

            BOOOM klak klak klak

          • Hammersteyn

            July 18, 2014 at 11:01

            dat sound!

  9. Rince&pop

    July 18, 2014 at 10:24

    I want it now!

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  10. Rince&pop

    July 18, 2014 at 10:27

    Gods I hope they make it old school for once and not update it to some version of ‘we want it’ that translates as ‘the suits will tell you what you want’.

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    • Viking Of Science

      July 18, 2014 at 10:33

      Well, to be fair, Bethesda are one of the more lenient Publishers when it comes to the developers work… Look at Wolfenstein, Dishonored etc….

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      • Rince&pop

        July 18, 2014 at 10:34

        Yeah, just been burned with the expectations before.

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  11. Johann

    July 18, 2014 at 10:37

    SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET. Doom is back, OLD SCHOOL STYLE! Man I loved the original DOOM games. IDKFA

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    • Hammersteyn

      July 18, 2014 at 11:01

      Gonna be good. Good bye social life!

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  12. Johan Fourie

    July 18, 2014 at 11:04

    Next title to be released – Quake 5 Arena

    So much want ;_;

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    • Skyblue

      July 18, 2014 at 11:16

      That will be such a tough ask. Quake 3 is as close to perfect as we’re ever likely to experience. Then they fucked with us by stopping rockets under platforms to bounce opponents off ledges and nerfing some weapons.

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      • Johan Fourie

        July 18, 2014 at 13:35

        I take it they did that in Quake Live? Never really played QL.

        Oh the days of Q3 OPC.

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        • Skyblue

          July 18, 2014 at 13:47

          Q3 was the bomb until patch 1.17 I think. Too much changed then but it’s still an epic game.
          QL had to drop the Lightning Gun damage as it was too powerful with the new generation of aim players coming through. All the top players have very similar aim with only strategy really separating them.

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          • Johan Fourie

            July 18, 2014 at 14:10

            What a pity. I quite enjoyed the lightning gun. At least they didn’t drop/change the rail gun, I hope?

            But still, I wont mind if they take Q3 as is and just give it a engine bump. Q3 had some delicious mods – Rocket Arena to name one.

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