When you haven’t performed Doom or Doom II for some time — or ever — a brand new re-release that Bethesda surprise-dropped (sorta) on Thursday may be the proper excuse to leap in to the basic video games. The re-release, which mixes each video games into one bundle referred to as Doom + Doom II and is a free replace for anybody who already owns Doom (1993) or Doom II, presents an extended record of nice new options — together with a model new single-player episode and on-line, cross-platform deathmatch multiplayer.
With Doom + Doom II, you’ll have entry to each of these two video games in addition to additional single-player content material like John Romero’s Sigil episode launched in 2019 and Legacy of Rust, which is a brand new Doom episode created by “people from id Software program, Nightdive Studios and MachineGames,” in response to Bethesda. You’ll additionally be capable of obtain single-player mods by way of a brand new in-game mod browser.
On the multiplayer entrance, Bethesda has added 25 new maps for deathmatch, which means you’ll have as much as 43 to choose from. The cross-platform deathmatch and co-op additionally help as much as 16 gamers.
The mixed bundle will help as much as 4K decision and 120fps should you’re taking part in on PC, PlayStation, or Xbox Sequence X / S. There’s additionally up to date music for the video games by Andrew Hulshult (who labored on the music for Doom Everlasting: The Historic Gods DLC), and you may swap backwards and forwards between the newer tracks and older tracks everytime you like.
There’s much more I didn’t contact on, and should you’re in any respect on this bundle, I like to recommend scrolling by way of the in depth patch notes. The sport is on the market on PC (through Steam, the Home windows Retailer, the Epic Video games Retailer, and GOG), Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X / S, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Change.
There was one different cool piece of retro Doom information introduced as we speak, too: Restricted Run Video games is engaged on a re-release of Doom on the SNES. The sport is ready to launch in 2025 — and, naturally, there’ll solely be 666 copies made.
