18 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About DOOM

1. The Doom 4 That Never Was

Doom 2016 has been unanimously praised as a return to form for a franchise that had appeared to have lost its way. However, the game could have ended up being very different, and most likely for worse.

Doom 4 had been in development for a very long time, and in that time it went through many different iterations. At one point the game was being developed as a retelling of Doom II: Hell on Earth, with you as a soldier on the ground fighting back against a full scale demon invasion.

It was certainly epic in scope, but id Software and Bethesda eventually realized that it was feeling more like a standard Call of Duty style military shooter than Doom. It was quickly scrapped, and focus was shifted towards making a game closer in style to the originals.

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