Following years of silence from id Software, which was acquired by ZeniMax Media in June 2009, Kotaku reported that the game was trapped in "development hell" following a series of huge conceptual shifts and design changes.
Doom 4was first teased by former id Software lead developer John Carmack at QuakeCon 2007, and was properly announced as being in development in 2008. At the presentation, attendees had to check any camera equipment they had on them at the door, in an attempt to prevent any leaks from the reveal event.ĭevelopment on the next installment of Doom has been lengthy and troubled, to say the least. This QuakeCon reveal event was not streamed or shared with non-attendees, in effort to do "something special for the amazing QC community," according to a blog post from Bethesda Softworks.
This reveal was first teased at E3 earlier this year, alongside a minute-long cinematic trailer. It looked like proper, violent Doom - and was met with deafening applause from the audience with each new weapon, new execution animation and gibbing. Rocket launchers separated demons' top-parts from their bottom-parts. In another demo, the player ripped out a chainsaw, which allowed him to carve up demons in different directions - through the shoulder, torso or straight down the middle. At the end of the demo, a flying demon got the best of the player, ripping his arms off and beating him to death with them. Severed limbs were the order of the day - the player had a number of context-sensitive melee executions, allowing him to head-stomp a foe or, in a particularly brutal offing, grab a demon's arms and tear it in half.
The player also discovered additional weapons during the run-through, including the iconic double-barrel shotgun and rapid-fire plasma rifle. The player also seemed to have a few mobile maneuvers, like a double jump, to help them survive waves of enemy demons and leap over large gaps.Īnother segment of the demo saw the player rip the arm off of a nearby corpse, and use the appendage to activate a keypad on a locked door. The gameplay sequence showed off brutal melee attacks and buckets of gibs - each eliciting a roar of approval from the presentation's attendees. In a live gameplay demonstration, we watched a player walk through the facility, shotgun in hand. Doom will begin outside of a UAC research facility on Mars, right at the outset of a demonic invasion.
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