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Overdose On ‘Doom’ With Two Hours of Footage
Here we are, with less than two weeks between us and the new Doom. We’ve known about this game for some time, we know about its troubled development, and we’ve seen — or played, if you got in on one of its multiplayer betas — enough of it to have a pretty good idea of the game that id Software will deliver on May 13.
There’s not a lot standing in its way either. May has a solid offering of horror games for us to anticipate, but Doom stands out among them as the only new release — a lone reboot surrounded by remasters (Sylvio, Dead Island Definitive Edition) and re-releases (The Park, Neverending Nightmares, Oxenfree).
In a recent livestream, id Software’s Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin took the Internet on a guided tour through a considerable portion of the game’s solo mode, which you can get familiar with in the video below.
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SnapMap is the new multi-platform modding toolset that’ll come bundled with Doom (on PC, PS4 and Xbox One). It may be the most exciting things about the game, if only because it’s what’ll keep it new and interesting six months after its release when we’ve vanquished the campaign and had our fill with the multiplayer.
Below you’ll find another hour of footage featuring Tom Muscatine of the SnapMap team.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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