Colin J Barnwell writes:
''So, Doom 4 has been announced. Sort of. It may not even be called that (confirmed: it won't), but id would certainly like you to think that it's going to be awesome. In fact, according to John Carmack, it will be several times more awesome on PC than on consoles. Or several times as good looking, anyway, implying that the game will probably be another two years away, when enough powerful PC systems exist to back up that claim.
Perhaps he hasn't noticed the system's falling favour of late. At this rate Doom 4 is going to be the only game worth upgrading for in a couple of year's time, and it won't even be a PC exclusive. In any case, the way I see it, the game can only go down one of two routes: follow on from Doom 3, or serve as a remake of Doom/Doom 2 in the same way that Quake 4 was a remake of Quake 2. Since it has also now been confirmed that this isn't a continuation of the previous release, the latter option is looking quite likely.
I for one would honest-to-goodness like to see Doom 4 as a fast-paced arcadey corridor shooter with reams of strategically placed monsters to carve through. A time was when everyone was sick of games like this – mainly because they got the balance and pacing wrong – but now I find myself turning to the original Doom games on semi-frequent occasions because quite simply nothing else like them exists anymore.''
Today, some new in-game footage from the prototype versions of the cancelled COD-like Doom 4 surfaced online.
What's cool is you can see some of the animations they kept and revised for 2016.
When you strip everything back you can really see how great the animation is.
It's amazing how far games have come.
For me its always interesting to see some prototype of a game of something else and see the final product on why they go another direction in the end
My favorite is the MGS:Rising vs MGR:Revengeance.(I preferred the Kojima's one)
Another interesting one is Splinter Cell Conviction Concept vs Retail
I don't see what is "COD-like" here? Just because there's 2 seconds footage with ironsight?
The devs were openly going for the cinematic shooter style that was popular in the years this was developed. COD-like Doom was pretty much the pitch.
Whilst the FPS genre has since had a tonne of fantastic franchises, such as Quake, Unreal and Serious Sam, Doom remains at the top of the pile, and has one of the best comeback stories in video game history. Doom is almost 30 years running, and has even bled into other mediums such as feature films and novels. As it has been going for so long, there have been a large number of entries in the series, and there are probably a few you never played. This is every Doom game ever.
According to ID Executive Producer Marty Stratton, DOOM 4 was scrapped because "it was more 'DOOM' in name than really anything."
From reports apparently Doom 4 was shaping up to be COD but set in the DOOM universe, honestly really glad that didn’t happen.
Because it was Call of Duty with generic demons on Earth. Looked worse than the 2009 Wolfenstein. They made the right call.
