Game Over #3 - DOOM | GameGrin
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// Articles // 1st Jul 2016 — 9 years ago // By Reece Armstrong Game Over #3 DOOM A series which began by pioneering the first-person-shooting genre, it has since had a number of sequels with the latest iteration being released earlier this year. When I was younger I used to watch my mother play both the original Doom and Doom II. I’d sit for hours watching her fight through the hordes of hell and marvel at the intensity and speed of it all. I remember the classic sound of a door sliding open, a fireball being hurled by an imp and the ominous sound of approaching demons. I can recall the Spiderdemon and the Icon of Sin and the crushing pressure that made it look like defeating those bosses were feats of amazement. Indeed Doom is probably one of the main reasons why I fell in love with videogames so its arrival this year was awaited by me with both excitement and apprehension. FPSs usually aren’t my type of game. An over stagnation of them in the past had dulled my appetite for others a...