Doom (PC) Reviews

Released on PC way back in the early 90s, 'Doom', the successor to the tremendously entertaining WW2 shooter 'Wolfenstein 3D', took the gaming world by storm. Following an invasion by the residents of Hell, mankind has been all but wiped out and it is up to you as the last marine left alive to fight your way through the demon-infested human ...  Read the complete review

Do you remember wolfenstein 3D? It was all the rage about 15 - 20 years ago. Doom was the next generation first person shooter. When it was first released there was high expectations and the game delivered. It was popular with millions of gamers worldwide and for good reason. Blasting your way through stench filled levels and monsters ...  Read the complete review

Doom is one of those milestone games, one of the big moments in gaming history that, one way or the other, changed how the hobby evolved. I think it's safe to say that this was the original 3D first person shooter, and for a long time it was the best. But how does it stand up now, against the likes of Halo, Half-Life and that other one with the ...  Read the complete review

A classic. If you haven't played this game then you are a disgrace to First Person Shooters. Doom is seen by some as the first of its type, at the time of release, gamers were eager to get their hands on this game they had heard so much about, the game that was actually '3d'. Over a decade and a half on, many still get the same immense feeling of ...  Read the complete review

GAMEPLAY: Doom is a perfect example of unextraordinary graphics/superlative gameplay. Control is perfect, after a while it becomes second nature to walk/run around the environments and you'll learn to do various cool techniques to get rid of the monsters. Shooting enemies is not an overly-complex process, just aim and shoot. Soon ...  Read the complete review

There was a time not so long ago when the concept of saying what Doom is would've sounded stupid, but now you could have mainly played recent PC games and 32/64/128 bit console games and may not know of the game. Basically, it's Quake, minus the ability to look up or down. The game uses sprites, so there can be huge numbers of monsters ...  Read the complete review

Doom first appeared on the PC in December 1993 (what a year that was). Since then a version of Doom has graced just about every single other gaming format. Sega's 32X and Saturn, Atari's Jaguar, Sony's Playstation, Doom has even appeared on the state of the art Apple Macs. A SNES version (considered almost impossible to be converted ...  Read the complete review