You know there has been a lot of great horror based games that have come out over the years but if you want to point out a game that I probably toss on top of them all it would be Doom hands down!
I spent many days in my homeroom during high school (which just so happens was also a computer class) and when I wasn’t playing Tetris I was fighting the forces of hell from a very old computer on Doom. I was cleaning people out with weapons that range from a chainsaw to the legendary BFG 9000 all on the Governments dime and time and I enjoyed every minute of it!
Now we could spend this time just talking about how awesome the game is but lets take a moment to just talk about the other aspects of the game and just how revolutionary it really is..
Doom came out in 1993, it made the first person shooter game popular as you took on the role of the unnamed Marine, which by the way was never named because he was suppose to be YOU!
See as the plot goes you have been punitively posted to Mars after assaulting your commanding officer, who ordered his unit to fire upon civilians. The Martian marine base acts as security for the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), a multi-planetary conglomerate, which is performing secret experiments with teleportation by creating gateways between the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. The manual makes it clear that Phobos is considered by space marines to be the dullest assignment imaginable: “with no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin’ dust and watchin’ restricted flicks in the rec room.” This all changes however when the UAC experiments go horribly awry. Computer systems on Phobos malfunction, Deimos disappears entirely, and “something fragging evil” starts pouring out of the gateway, killing or possessing all UAC personnel….AKA HELL!!!!!!
And of course this is where the fun starts as you get to make pudding out of all the forces of evil that from that point on try to take you down. But as with any fun game that has ever came out (like Mortal Kombat) people just HAD to get all uptight and as a result the game was met with much controversy.
Oh the violence!!!! The gore!!! The SATANIC imagery!!..People just kept finding one reason after another to bitch about this game, but the more they bitched the more popular it become. Also according to Wiki the game was even dubbed as a “mass murder simulator” by critic and Killology Research Group founder David Grossman. Doom prompted fears that the then-emerging virtual reality technology could be used to simulate extremely realistic killing, and in 1994 led to unsuccessful attempts by Washington state senator Phil Talmadge to introduce compulsory licensing of VR use.
It also goes on to state that he game again sparked controversy throughout a period of school shootings in the United States when it was found that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, were avid players of the game. While planning for the massacre, Kesha said that the killing would be “like f***ing Doom” and that his shotgun was “straight out of the game”.
I’ll be honest with you folks, I don’t no more believe that a game can make someone kill people than I do a movie can cause someone to do so. Clearly anyone who does something like that is sick mentaly, and I must ask..Where were the parents??
But forget all that gloom, the fact is Doom was and is a GREAT game. It’s still fun to play today and it spawned many sequels that you can also find today such as Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994), as well as expansion packs and alternate versions based on the same game engine, including The Ultimate Doom (1995), Final Doom (1996), and Doom 64 (1997)
Was it bloody? Yes, Was it somewhat demonic? Yes, Was it a whole lot of fun?? HELL YES!!
Doom is without question one of the greatest games of all time.
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