A DOOMed Theory
Well we havent had a little conspiracy around here for a bit so here you go, just for the holidays! According to a post on ShackES (Which I assume he got from Domain of Games) Angel Munoz, the president of the CPL stated that after conversing directly with John Carmack (at FRAG4), there is "no question" that the next DOOM game will be a part of the CPL feature games. What is more interesting though, is that the next DOOM may possibly enter that line up as early as the December 2001 tournament, which would place the release of the game probably just under a year from now. Keep in mind DOOM was announced just about 7 months ago. That would place development time at about 18-19 months for a December 2001 release. Thats a realistic schedule for games like KISS and Alice which were developed in less time (but had fairly simple implementations of single player), but given the immense focus on single player and depth/complexity that the id guys have been pointing towards, I really wouldnt count on seeing the game until 2002. Until then, we're stuck doing stupid contests.
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First this time??