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On the giant screen at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, home of the lavish Academy Awards ceremony, a demon is being sawn in half with a chainsaw. As torrents of blood and body parts spew toward the camera, the audience howls its approval. This is the pre-E3 press briefing by games publisher Bethesda, and what we're viewing is footage of the new Doom game.
Released in 1993 by Texan studio Id Software, the original Doom was a landmark in the first-person shooter genre, and one of the most debated and controversial games of all time. Putting players in control of a space marine sent to Mars to battle the incoming forces of Hell, the game introduced many to the first-person perspective, where players view the action as though through the eyes of the protagonist. This highly immersive effect, combined with the relentless bloody gore, set a new paradigm for the depiction of violence in video games. Doom seemed to combine all the fears of the religious right: loaded with guns and demonic imagery, accompanied by an electronic approximation of heavy metal music, and utterly nihilistic in its outlook, the shooter became a totem of generational dread. No wonder teenagers loved it.
Now, of course, Doom should seem sort of quaint. Its pixellated visuals, scratchy sound samples and limited three-dimensional environments are ancient artefacts beside the alarming visual realism of games like Battlefield and Call of Duty. But no. Doom remains an arresting and effective game, not only because its blocky aesthetic and anarchic humour resonate with nineties nostalgia, but because it somehow retains its disquieting power.
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