Doom

My first action packed experience on the PC. Back in '95, I had started my third year in elementary school, this game was well known to the gaming community here in Sweden. Haha I remember the first time I discussed cheat codes for the game with my classmates. Before Doom there was Wolfenstein 3D, but this game focused on an invasion by demons on a military base, placed on the moon Phobos.

Every single one of your comrades got killed, and alone you had to fight yourself through an army of former humans and of course the hideous packs of demons. The graphics were great at the time, and as young as I was, it gave me great pleasure of completing the shareware release. Knee Deep in the Dead was the first episode of three(fourth came later).

A+

Doom was a revolution in first person shooters. In Doom, instead of just shooting everything, you also have to hit switches and make your way to the next level. As you do this, you also fight monsters. Everything about this game is great. It's fun and challenging, the graphics are cool(though a bit dated now), the music in the background is top notch, being some of the best music I've ever heard in a game, and the monsters are cool. The levels in this game are very hellish, and frightening at times. Some rooms are dark, some are dirty, sometimes a monster will jump out from around the corner, the sounds in the game are realistic and creepy, and sometimes the music is creepy too.

As a kid, my friend and I used to play this game for countless hours. Other games we played were Duke Nukem and Quake. Those games are very similar to Doom.

Doom is a great game, I hope you can get the chance to play it some time.

Doom is the legend, the game that started the computer gaming genre. The game that made a generation. Doom single-handedly made the computer the most powerful gaming system on the planet. Doom not only set the standards for graphics and fps, it set the standards for Computer Games everywhere.

Although the game is old and cheesy now, upon its original arrival it was horrifying and well built. Doom 3 will be the next game to define a generation... of what... I don't know.

**Edit. I wrote this in 2003 as a young man that did not have much understanding. Now, looking back I realize that this game is nothing cool to be enjoyed. It is a wicked game full of evil, gory violence, and satanic content. This game had much to do with inspiring the 'Columbine' shooters and should be condemned. This is a wicked game that influenced many youth to wickedness. I condemn this game now.

I've been a video game veteran for the last 16 years, ever since I was six, when "Super Mario Bros." was dominating the Nintendo. I got my first taste of "Doom"-style hyper-violence eight years ago when I was in sixth grade via some kids who loaded the game onto our teacher's PC. Later that same year, I got "Doom" for PS1 and I still play it religiously. In "Doom," developed by those geniuses at id Software in 1993, you're a futuristic United States Space Marine sent to investigate the eerie disturbances at a Mars research station. All hell breaks loose, literally, when monsters and other assorted demons from Hell wipe out your unit, leaving only you to save our planet. So you load up your arsenal, and go hunting. "Doom" is the genre. "Doom" is what introduced me to what some call "controversy sells"; you just have to see the hype for yourself and make your own assessment. I judged proper: I gave "Doom" a 10/10. It's the greatest first-person shooter I've ever played (since as I stated earlier, this game made the genre - even if it wasn't necessarily the first). Many condemned it, but most embraced "Doom." Last year, "Doom" (2005) came out to theaters. While not a perfect adaptation, I hold it in the same regard as I do the first "Mortal Kombat" (1995) and 2006's "Silent Hill": it just gets better and better every time I see it. "Doom" rocked my world the first time I played it, in much the same fashion as it did millions of others. The experience is literally wall-to-wall in its intensity, and doesn't die once.

"Doom" - literally all hell breaks loose, just as it did when unleashed on an unsuspecting populace 13 years ago.

10/10

Most guys around my age (17 or so) played DOOM in their childhood and remember it fondly. Although it is extremely outdated and does not run well with Windows 98, it is the video game ever made, and placed ID Software on the map. It's not for the faint of heart---the gory graphics are sick even by today's standards. If blasting demons into tiny pieces and seeing people impaled on sticks or hanging by meathooks isn't your cup of tea, then avoid DOOM. But for anyone else, this is the game for you. WARNING: EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE!!!!