Things don’t sound good at Doom 4 developer Id Software. And it sounds like the multiplayer beta you’ll get access to for buying Wolfenstein might not even be made by Id themselves.
Today, some new in-game footage from the prototype versions of the cancelled COD-like Doom 4 surfaced online.
What's cool is you can see some of the animations they kept and revised for 2016.
When you strip everything back you can really see how great the animation is.
It's amazing how far games have come.
For me its always interesting to see some prototype of a game of something else and see the final product on why they go another direction in the end
My favorite is the MGS:Rising vs MGR:Revengeance.(I preferred the Kojima's one)
Another interesting one is Splinter Cell Conviction Concept vs Retail
I don't see what is "COD-like" here? Just because there's 2 seconds footage with ironsight?
The devs were openly going for the cinematic shooter style that was popular in the years this was developed. COD-like Doom was pretty much the pitch.
Whilst the FPS genre has since had a tonne of fantastic franchises, such as Quake, Unreal and Serious Sam, Doom remains at the top of the pile, and has one of the best comeback stories in video game history. Doom is almost 30 years running, and has even bled into other mediums such as feature films and novels. As it has been going for so long, there have been a large number of entries in the series, and there are probably a few you never played. This is every Doom game ever.
According to ID Executive Producer Marty Stratton, DOOM 4 was scrapped because "it was more 'DOOM' in name than really anything."
From reports apparently Doom 4 was shaping up to be COD but set in the DOOM universe, honestly really glad that didn’t happen.
Because it was Call of Duty with generic demons on Earth. Looked worse than the 2009 Wolfenstein. They made the right call.
ID is in shambles, the entire ID tech team left in February to go work for Occulus Rift. The studio went from 140 employees to 50 in 2 years.
Bethesda needs to close ID since all of the original talent have left the studio
What it means is that DOOM Beta key from Wolfenstein will be useless for two years.
Its going to be crappy and dead like Doom 3s was.
Well, guess this is the last release by i.d
After this I can see ZeniMax closing the Richardson office and moving any development on i.d IP's in house at Bethesda.
Still, can't say I'm shocked, there has been a brain drain of talent there at i.d for sometime now, what happened this past February is the final nail in the coffin.
Still a shame though.