Doom dominated unlike any other PC game before it. Developed by id Software, this seminal first-person shooter defined the genre from that point forward, and any competitors to come in the years after were simply labeled as “Doom clones”. A technical marvel and true feat of game design, Doom tasked you with dashing through a military facility on the Mars moon of Phobos, overrun with demons that will only stop once you fill them with lead. On the surface, it’s pretty straightforward, but the nuance behind the game’s mechanics, along with forward- thinking development philosophy, all but ensured that Doom would persist for decades to…
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