Doom

Boxart of the first Doom game.

Doom is a sci-fi/horror First Person Shooter series developed by id Software. It was very popular in the 1990 and it was reconized for it's pixelated 3D-graphics, it's multiplayer gameplay and it's WADs. It's WADs let gamers customize a certain stage in Doom with different monsters and make them into pop culture like movies, TV, games, etc (You could probably make Tal a space marine in the WADs ). There were also Doom clones that went along with it.

Overview

Now Doom takes place in Mars. You play a Doomguy (acually a space marine) who works for the UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation) as they experiment with teleportations between different glalaxies. Suddenly, space demons break out of Hell and attack everybody and some often turn into zombies. So it's the space marine's job to send the demons back to Hell where they belong.

Gameplay

The gameplay in the series is simple. It's like your everyday FPS where you get a gun and shoot stuff, Well, in the first Doom, you can see the guy you're playing as on the bar below you. The ammo bar tells you how much ammo you have left, the health bar tells you the limit of your living when you get hit by a monster, and you pretty much know everything else.

List of Doom Game

• Doom (1993)
• Doom II: Hell on Earth (1995)
• Final Doom (1996)
• Master Levels for Doom II (1995)
• Doom 64 (1997)
• Doom 3 (2004)
• Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (2005)
• Doom RPG (2005)

Controversy

The Doom series was infamous for conatining graphic R-rated violence and scary demonic imagery. But the big part of the game was the violence.

In March 20, 1999, two adolescent boys, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, committed a very controversial school massacre. They've played so much of that game that they felt like going to Columbine High School and shoot everybody in it. Eric informed Klebold that their murder would be "like f*ckin' Doom ". So they went in. And as they went in, they started shooting up the place and the people living in it (they only killed 12 students and 1 teacher). Then they shot themselves in the head after that. After the killing, A lawsuit was filed by the families of the murdered Columbine victims. They noticed that Klebold and Harris were fanboys of gory video games and music with graphic lyrics. So they all fined the entertainment industry under 500,000 dollars.

Similar Games

With the sucess of Doom, there were many imitaters that came along.

• Blood
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Gloom
• Rise of the Triad
• Shadow Warrior
• Star Wars: Dark Forces
• Witchaven
• Wolfenstein 3D

Film

There was also a movie based on the game Doom starring The Rock.

Doom Icons

Icon	Name	Description	Uploader	Users who sport(ed) it
	Sarge	Sarge is from the Doom movie played by The Rock.	OML_fixes and LoXXorZ	???
	Doom Bot	Looking at this icon, we'll just call him the "Doomguy".	???	???
	Doom III	The logo for the 3rd Doom game.	little_gizmo1 and Un-1337	???
	Doom3	The same logo uploaded by two players of Doom. Only this time, it has a monster on it.	???	???
	Cacodemon	A red monster with one eye and extra horns. Yes, he is scary.	???	Fused_Chameleon
	Demon	This is a running pinky demon from the first Doom game.	???	???

See Also

• List of Doom enemies and bosses

Related Links

• List of search results for "Doom" on IGN
• Doom boards
• Doom Wiki
• id Software's Doom page
• Activision's Doom page

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