It was tested by customers who pre-ordered the 2014 Bethesda game Wolfenstein: The New Order and also by the general public. It also features environment traversal, character upgrades, and the ability to perform executions known as 'glory kills'.ĭoom was announced as Doom 4 in 2008, and that version underwent an extensive development cycle with different builds and designs before the game was restarted in 2011 and revealed as simply Doom in 2014. The gameplay returns to a faster pace with more open-ended levels, closer to the first two games than the slower survival horror approach of Doom 3. Players take the role of an unnamed space marine, known as the ' Doom Slayer', as he battles demonic forces from Hell that have been unleashed by the Union Aerospace Corporation within their energy-mining facility on Mars. A port for Nintendo Switch was co-developed with Panic Button and released in November 2017, and a version for Google Stadia was released in August 2020. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in May 2016. The game is the first major installment in the Doom series since 2004's Doom 3. Doom is a 2016 first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.
