TITLE
Five Years And Nothing To Show: How Doom 4 Got Off Track
AUTHOR
Jason Schreier
PUBLICATION
Kotaku
YEAR
2013
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Doom 4 is in trouble, and has been for quite some time now, according to multiple sources. Though publisher Bethesda tells Kotaku they still plan to release the highly-anticipated first-person shooter, Doom 4 has gone through at least one major reboot over the past few years, and sources say even today, five years after development started, the game is not even close to complete.Rumors of Doom 4’s troubled development have been floating around for a while now, but over the past few months, we’ve learned a great deal more than what has circulated so far. I’ve talked to four people with connections to the Id Software-developed game, and they’ve described a studio plagued by mismanagement and lack of communication that has frustrated staff both at Id and Id’s parent company, ZeniMax (whose main branch Bethesda is the publisher of Doom 4 and a number of other games, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim).
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We’ve heard a great deal more about what’s happened at Id over the past few years, and bits and pieces about what’s happening now. Today we can share it all.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Bethesda Softworks
id Software
GAMES MENTIONED
Doom (2016)
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Pete Hines
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