Suddenly you have to outmanoeuvre an enemy rather than just mindlessly blast it.
Theīest time to attack an imp is when it’s charging its fireball because it’s one They retreat, flank, and can climb up surfaces. Get a quick slow-motion intro when it first appears.) It’s the core enemy, the one you’ll kill more thanĪnything else, (which is perhaps why it’s the only enemy in the entire game to The enemies in Doom (especially the Imps) reminded me of how impressive AI can be. Humans never backed off or relocated? Yet most single-player games stillįeature AI that is barely clever enough to hide behind a crate. It’s a coreĮlement of all multiplayer shooters. That doesn’t sound like much, but enemies that know when to back off and relocate is still, shockingly, absent in most games. Videogames occurred: an enemy ran away from me. Going to enjoy the AI in Doom when something so simple, yet so rare in But this is a game with just the right dosage of It may seem odd to remark on AI in a gameĪbout fighting demons. The second crucial element of Doom’s success is the AI. Movement in all directions is something you should always be doing, and always Speed, with a double-jump, with rapid, simple ledge-climbing that means And moving feels far more empowering than hunkering behind a waist-highįirst game to have quick movement speed, but in Doom it’s the combination of Isn’t quite as old-school as it might seem. Thanks to its movement it’s still aĭoom. Them to kill them, yet you need to be away from them to survive. Symmetry with monsters who are constantly seeking you out. No other throwback shooter has the mobility of Doom.įeeling that Doom is a kind of dancing game comes in. Levels become a climbing frame you can whoosh around. Is brought to life when you add in jumping, especially when you get the double And that’s before you find a “haste” power-up.
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Spend time making basic traversal sublime and everythingĭoom feels as if a cheat code is turned on. You can have fun just moving around and jumping onto stuff without any enemies You know controls and movement in a game are excellent when
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And I’m even talkingĪbout the PS4 version here, which has a big handicap against its PC brother. Press buttons, get reaction.ĭoom is in this camp. Just moving and controlling a videogame, the love that hooked us into playing There should be a name for the kind of joy that occurs from So good you don’t give a damn about what they’re about, you just want to
Part of that recipe – movement – is evident from the first few seconds of you Movement and AI are what make the game really special. Instant I saw such unedited footage, the strengths of Doom became immediately apparent.ĭoom 2016 rests on two central elements: movement and AI. Wait until it came out and for long stretches of unedited gameplay to appear. To see Doom properly, people would have to Trying to make everything look as stylish as possible. The player in the videos acts like he or she was in a movie, The game is demoed in the tiresome E3Ĭinematic way. Watching those pre-release trailers again today, it’s clear to see why I was worried. Serious Sam, Painkiller, and Shadow Warrior tapped that vein long ago.ĭo I love it? Why does only Doom 2016 feel fresh and modern?ĭoom’s trailers failed to impress me. It’s not even the first FPS to cash in on 90s nostalgia. It has generic level art, generic monsters, and worst of all - first-person Set pieces, few puzzles, no big set-piece moments, and no story of any
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Series of repetitive arena battles that drag on over 12 hours? The game has no Why do I like it so much when it is, on the surface, just a
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