What is Doom?

What is Doom?

Doom is a first-person shooter, Doom you experienced the game through the eyes of the main character. This character is not named throughout the game. But soon became popularly known as  “Doomguy” In order for the game to be completed, the marine must fight through Hell itself, each episode containing eight distinct levels, along with an optional ninth hidden level for each one. The plot of Doom is the military is doing secret experiments with teleportation by creating gateways between the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. Mars is considered by space marines to be the dullest assignment imaginable. This all changes when the experiments go horribly wrong. Computer systems on Phobos malfunction, Deimos disappears entirely, and Evil starts pouring out of the gateways, killing or possessing all personnel. Responding to a distress call from the overrun scientists, the Martian marine unit is quickly sent by ship from Mars to Phobos to investigate, where the player character is left to guard the perimeter with only a pistol while the rest of the group proceeds inside. The marine hears assorted radio messages, gunfire, and screams, followed by silence.  The player cannot navigate the ship off of Phobos alone and sees that the only way out is to fight through the Phobos complex. As the last man standing, the player character's mission is to fight through the entire onslaught of demonic enemies by himself in order to keep them from attacking Earth.

Doom was played by an estimated 15–20 million people within two years of its release, popularizing both the business model of online distribution and the mode of gameplay, and spawning a gaming itself. In addition to popularizing the first-person shooter genre, it pioneered immersive 3D graphics, multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications. As a sign of its effect on the industry, first-person shooter games from the genre's boom in the 1990s. Its graphic violence, as well as satanic imagery, made Doom the subject of controversy.