The canceled Doom 4 seemed to be very different from the previous one. A new video of unedited footage shows how big the game was.
Released to YouTube According to the video game documentary channel Noclip, this footage has a very different franchise atmosphere. As horror music swells in the background, it shows a player being chased by a devil crawling on walls and ceilings in the sewer. It gives off a survival horror feel rather than the high octane action of Doom games. Some of the early prototype footage evokes memories of another series developed by id Software, Rage.
🚨 New gameplay showcase 🕹️
Almost 6 years have passed, so I thought it was time to release the unedited video of DOOM4 and the development video of DOOM (2016) obtained from Bethesda / id. Here are some cool stuff. Enjoy DOOM fans!
look: https://t.co/hPfN9uY9mm pic.twitter.com/Hfr23X00ki
— Noclip (@noclipvideo) July 11, 2022
Doom 4 was officially announced in 2008. After disappearing from the news cycle for years, it was officially re-released as Doom, which will be released in 2016.
In an IGN Unfiltered interview with id Software executive producer Marty Stratton, we found that Doom 4 was abandoned in favor of Doom 2016 because the project “actually has more Doom names than anything else.”
“The problem was still good. It was a good game. It was still a road from launch, so there was a way to go,” Stratton said at the time. “We were multiple teams at once … many people were working on Rage, then we … turned our attention around again. [DOOM] And it lacked some of those basic DOOM stuff a bit. “
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Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJ Plant.
