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.
