Someone considered it to be too similar to the first two games, too “retro-styled” and “old-school.” Others thought it strayed too far from the original formula, and this seems like the dominant opinion now.
īut since its launch, Doom 3 has been divisive, too. Doom 3 has always been well received: its original PC version became a commercial success and has 87/100 on Metacritic, while the recent Switch port of its BFG Edition has a score of 84/100. In a sci-fi future, the Union Aerospace Corporation causes a demon invasion on Mars (or on its moons, in the original games) and a lone soldier fights against hellspawns.
But Doom 3 is a real Doom episode: it explores lesser known (and probably less popular) elements of the original games, and it can teach us something more about what made Doom so special, and what its new reimagining is lacking.ĭoom Doom are, more or less, two different retellings of the original 1993 Doom and share the same general plot. Players and critics alike hailed it as the long-awaited return of a series that lost its identity with its previous game, Doom 3 (2004).
In 2016 Doom was back with bright colors, cartoonish demons, gore, speed and violence.
