New Doom beta access included with Wolfenstein: The New Order pre-orders
As fun as Wolfenstein: The New Order looks, the id Software game we're all most keen to hear more of is Doom. The vagueness continues. Publisher Bethesda today announced that The New Order will launch on May 20, and pre-ordering will get you access to a beta for Doom. Which Doom? Doom 4? And what's the beta? Oh, don't worry your pretty little head with all that.
As fun as Wolfenstein: The New Order looks, the id Software series we're most keen to hear more of is Doom. The vagueness continues. Publisher Bethesda today announced that The New Order will launch on May 20, and pre-ordering will get you access to a beta for "Doom." Which Doom? Doom 4? And what's the beta? Oh, don't worry your pretty little head with all that.
The Wolfenstein site refers merely to "Doom," as if we'll understand that. Yes, we're well aware of what Doom is, but what is this? Bethesda is slightly more verbose on Twitter, at least, saying it's beta access to "the next Doom game." Whatever that may be. One assumes the beta will multiplayer in some form, but that's purely speculation.
The New Order's coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PS3. It's developed by MachineGames, a studio formed by Starbreeze founder Magnus Hogdahl and several other Starbreeze folks.
"Running and gunning and killing Nazis are the essence of the franchise, and MachineGames so far has done an admirable job of paying tribute to the id games of yore," we wrote after seeing it in May, though we were a little more sceptical of its attempts at a story. Catch a glimpse of that story stuff in this new trailer, released today to celebrate all the news:
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As fun as Wolfenstein: The New Order looks, the id Software game we're all most keen to hear more of is Doom. The vagueness continues. Publisher Bethesda today announced that The New Order will launch on May 20, and pre-ordering will get you access to a beta for Doom. Which Doom? Doom 4? And what's the beta? Oh, don't worry your pretty little head with all that.-
I keep thinking this is the Raven developed game.
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just plain Wolfenstein? I keep meaning to play that
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No Carmack, no Romero...
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no problem!
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They still have some very good programmers and artists. I'm not sure I trust their design guys (I typically like games Kevin Cloud leads, dislike games Tim Willits leads, and I'm not sure I believe "Studio Director" is a position with less power than "Creative Director").
I like the Starbreeze games that the Wolfenstein guys made, and I'm honestly kind of liking Yeehaw America Cowboy BJ from this trailer, so I'll probably pick it up when it comes out.
I'll probably buy Doom 4 out of curiosity, and I hope it'll be good. If it's half as good as Doom 1 & 2, it could be amazing, but I think it's the trickiest game to make.
As a developer I'm sure you want people to take it seriously as a game in 2015, but the speed and minimalism are a large part of what makes the original great, and it's probably very difficult to combine the two.
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lol
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the new Wolfenstein looks very fun
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id without carmack is like a car without a handcrank start. he's not who he was. still awesome, but just not interested in being who he was twenty goddamn years ago. id needs a Carmack type, but read what he been saying since 2005, he's grown and changed, like a human does.
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Thanks, but I'll just wait for the Doom 4 review. Not feeling enthusiastic about "B. J. Blazcowicz As Duke Nukem in Nazi-Occupied America".
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I like the pedigree of the devs involved. Starbreeze folks always seemed to make either pretty great (Riddick) or at least interesting (Darkness) 1st person experiences.
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Is this a sequel to the last wolfenstein, or another reboot?
Was that one any good? Would it still be worth playing?-
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That's a solid scale.
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it is quiet literally "single player FPS". its about as generic and unassuming as a game can possibly be, its truly a callback to the old Raven games. perfectly functional, fun, but utterly forgettable and just barely good, but not great. in a proper, real rating system i would give it a solid 6. by modern rating systems id give it a 9.5.
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Does it say when the beta opens up?
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dual guns looks stupid, i'm preordering this as soon as they put it on steam just for Doom Beta access
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I saw an early look of W:TNO by someone from about 6-9 months ago, TotalBiscuit or someone, and he said it was tiresome because of how utterly linear it was and how everything was 5 minutes of action followed by 5 minutes of cutscene. It looked cool but sounded like a drag. Hopefully the cutscenes were so abundant because it was the first 30 minutes of the game and that goes away quickly, but the near on-rails experience sounded like a real bummer.
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