Doom (2016) – 10 years later

Yep, Doom 2016 is a decade old now. Time flies. Click here if you want to skip to my thoughts. Also I spoil the game a lot. Doom, retro shooters, and me I mean, it’s Doom, id Software’s seminal title from 1993 that influenced everything else. What’s more to be said? I was born a few years after the original Doom released. I never had the chance to play it as a young’un, nor would I know anyone who did. But with the internet being a thing, and growing up on [now-dead] gaming forums, I’d become accustomed with the classic shooter. I first played Doom sometime in 2010, and I loved it. Compared to all the other first-person shooters I played, this was different. There’s no narrative faff, no tutorials. Just you, guns, and a bunch of enemies in the each room. The levels were confusingly labyrinthine, but it was still fun to trawl about like a rat in a maze. And then in the second game you get a bigger, badder shotgun to melt demons with. What’s not to love? … Also it was that small &…