Doom features absurd gore, multiplayer, and modding tools meant for every player

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Doom is real, and it is even gorier than we expected. The original creators of Doom pioneered a certain caliber of video game violence with the original franchise, and the demonstration of the new Doom aspires to do the same for a new generation of games: body parts gib, burst, and leak across an impressively realistic metallic setting. In the footage, the hero blasts hell-beasts, alternating various weapons with melee attacks that remove limbs like wings off a chicken just removed from the oven. At the end of the demo, the hero cuts through the humanoid demons with a chainsaw in a variety of angles to show that for him, dismemberment isn’t a job — it’s a craft.

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