Following the story-line of the Doom 3 game, the global economy is in ruins and Mars is the only remaining hope of recovering dwindling resources and jumpstarting a new way of life. The year is 2144 and Doom’s ever famous insidious company, the United Aerospace Corporation, is more organized and soulless than ever. Plus, I need to catch up for whenever they decide to do a Doom 4 spinoff book series. Just in case the new game doesn’t awaken my deepest fears and stir those internal monsters in the dark, I decided to do an homage to Doom both in gaming and in bookworm style. Around the same time, I found the old novelizations from Doom 3 gathering dust in a forgotten bookshelf. Getting back into the groove after ten plus years of no new Doom releases, the fourth Doom installment has me once again gaming, this time on more modern equipment with my fiancé’s inordinately patient tutoring. This was brilliant storytelling set in a quirky world of aerospace corporations on far flung moons of Mars (later moved to Mars itself in Doom 3) where invading demons and an opened hell portal threaten the safety of humanity and the future of the universe itself. Dark, foreboding, eerie and corny all at the same time, Doom gave me epic nightmares for years, and oddly for that reason I kept being drawn back. The Ultimate Doom captured my child’s imagination with its sinister corridors and puzzle-like charm. Never much of a gamer, preferring bookworm status instead, The Ultimate Doomin 1995 was always an exception. With the release of id Software’s epic gore fest, Doom 4, or as my friend states, “the Doom,” I was ready to reengage my lifetime obsession. Rating: The Story Behind Doom’s Famous Hell Portal Revealed
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