The 2012 date for the footage would put this part way between the „Call of Doom“ build and the 2016 game we wound up getting.
On March 2, videogame archivist The Gman’s Archive (opens in new tab) shared a video to Twitter that’s purportedly from a 2012 build of Doom 4, the long-in-development Doom follow-up that would eventually become the universally-acclaimed 2016 reboot of the series. The video was sourced from the Artstation page of Danny Keys, a video editor and media artist at id Software, but the original Artstation post has since been taken down (opens in new tab).
While Doom 3 has its detractors, the slower-paced, more horror-focused game has an appeal that I find hard to deny. Still, after its 2004 release, id clearly struggled with what direction to take the series in, as outlined in a Noclip documentary (opens in new tab) from 2016. The Noclip doc, as well as scattered leaks (opens in new tab) and coverage over the years, all paint a picture of a distinctly late ’00s, early ’10s sort of cinematic shooter.
