The canceled Doom 4 looks set to be very different from its predecessors, and a new unedited video shows just how far the game has come.
Published Youtube The footage presented by the video game documentary channel Noclip shows a completely different atmosphere of the franchise. The player is shown being driven into a sewer by demons crawling on the wall and ceiling, while horror music plays in the background. It has more of a survival horror vibe than the high-octane action of the Doom games. Some of the prototype footage also evokes memories of Rage, another series developed by id Software.
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It’s been almost six years, so we thought it was time to release the unmastered DOOM 4 screenshots and the DOOM (2016) development screenshots we got from Bethesda/id. Here are some cool things. Enjoy DOOM fans!
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Doom 4 was officially announced back in 2008. After disappearing from the news cycle for several years, it was officially re-launched as Doom, which will continue in 2016.
In our IGN unfiltered interview with the software’s executive producer Marty Stratton, we learned that Doom 4 was abandoned in favor of 2016’s Doom because the project was “more of a name than anything.”
“The thing is, it was still good. It was a good match. It was still a long way from getting off the ground, so it had a ways to go,” Stratton said at the time. “We were several teams at the same time… A lot of people were working on Rage, and then we shifted our focus to ourselves. [DOOM] And I was missing some of those essential things in DOOM.
For more on Doom, check out the wackiest devices to power the 1993 original, including LEGO bricks.
Logan Blunt is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
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