Doom
The Ultimate Doom, named simply Doom on the service, was released as a download for the Xbox 360 on the Xbox Live Arcade service on September 27, 2006. In September 2010 the game was delisted from the service…
Doom is a shooter developed by id Software, released 27 September 2006 on Xbox 360.
What Doom is
Doom is a shooter game developed by id Software and released in 2006. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Ultimate Doom, named simply Doom on the service, was released as a download for the Xbox 360 on the Xbox Live Arcade service on September 27, 2006. In September 2010 the game was delisted from the service catalogue however it was subsequently put back on the marketplace.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Doom series
Doom is the 23rd of 73 entries we hold in the Doom series. It arrived 9 months after Doom II. The next entry was Doom Resurrection in 2009. Its critic score of 85 is 6 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations at 91.
How it was received
Doom holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Doom launched on 27 September 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Bully, Pokémon Diamond Version and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Bully, Pokémon Diamond Version, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Doom yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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