I've finally gotten around to playing the DOOM reboot.
I'm a huge fan of old school video games, and I was keenly aware of the game's unapologetic style; you see demons, you shoot demons. With big guns. While double-jumping and running around really fast. While grimy metal plays in the background.
Even though I knew the game had classic gameplay, and as an older FPS veteran was something right up my alley, I still didn't play it until now. Reason being, well, like a lot of folks I just have too many damn games. I've really been trying to play through my backlog the past year, so I put DOOM on hold while I got sucked into a Witcher 3 hole. I knew I would enjoy the hell out of DOOM, so there was no rush. Plus, Halloween is perfect time to play a game like this!
Honestly, the reviews and gameplay videos don't do the game justice. You really need to sit down and experience it. Within the first 30 minutes or so of gameplay, you quickly realize the developers hit a home run with DOOM. It's just so....atmospheric and true to its roots. The music is by the same guy who did the soundtrack for the Wolfenstein reboot and its expansion, a gentlemen by the name of Mick Gordon. I wasn't familiar with his work until I played Wolfenstein: TNO, and I was thoroughly impressed with his musical talents. This guy was put on this Earth to write music for fast-paced shooters with old school roots. All the components of DOOM just fit together so nicely; the gun play, the movement, the sound effects and music, the visual style. Everything.
I am just so pleased that these franchises - DOOM and Wolfenstein - are in good hands now, with id and Machine games respectively. I am also super excited about the latest Wolfenstein, so much so that I am actively avoiding any and all discussion or gameplay videos of it until I can find time to play it myself. I briefly watched a performance rundown of Wolfenstein II from Digital Foundry earlier, and once I saw the level where BJ is rolling around in a wheelchair, injured but yet still able to blast away at Nazis, I noped the fuck out less I spoil the opening experience.