Life After Doom

An anonymous reader writes "What's next for the maker of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein? Chris Morris of CNN Money talks to id's CEO, who tells us the next id game won't be anything like the others. Rather than a re-hash of its sci-fi or WWII themes, CEO Todd Hollenshead says, 'I'd like to try something new.' [Hollenshead also notes that an as yet unidentified developer with 'a name that people recognize' has licensed the Doom 3 engine.]"

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3D Realms?

[NotAnotherReboot]

Who wants to bet that it is 3D Realms that is the unnamed licencesee? DNF has been in development for so long that I'm sure the engine has been scrapped multiple times. The Doom 3 engine should provide plenty of headroom, and I'm assuming that all of their content has been being made at high resolution anyways.

Makse sense to me...

Re:3D Realms?

[lightknight]

Hey, at the time, BUILD was great. Something severely lacking in DOOM: the ability to jump. Makes for all sorts of fun.

But what made the cake was the combination of all the vice elements in one game. Aliens, guns, women (hookers), liquor, bad singing (hilarious)... and yet he is supposed to be the all American hero. It's like Vice City, before its time.

And unlike most games, it has definite replay value. Take Warcraft 2, how many times can you play the game before you're bored? And yet, with Duke3D, no matter how many times you play, it is soooo satisfying to pump a few shotgun shells into a pig cop.

From what I've read on 3DRealms (DNF), they keep adding features (skeletal animation, etc.). But by the time they go "Hey, we're done", a new engine is out. So they swap to the new engine add a little more, wash, rinse, repeat. It does not help that Duke3D's following is so great that anything less than an incredible game will land them in trouble.

HL2?

[ozamosi]

Hollenshead also notes that an as yet unidentified developer with 'a name that people recognize' has licensed the Doom 3 engine.

Bet you it's HL2 that grew tired of writing their own, so they bought this one.

On a more serious note: now that Doom3 is out, have everyone forgotten compleatly about HalfLife2?

Re:The really scary part of Doom 3

[Shadow Wrought]

Resident Evil? I can't say that I have much experience with the game, but I enjoyed the movie.

Life Imitates Art...

[th1ckasabr1ck]

In DOOM3 you find a PDA with an e-mail from a little boy to his uncle talking about how great his new birthday present, "Quake 43" is.

I guess id wants to generate some new IP so that life does not imitate art.

Re:Uh-oh...

[Loadmaster]

Why is this a troll? I could see MS licensing the Doom 3 engine. We really haven't seen any progress on Perfect Dark Zero. The Doom 3 engine is the best you'll get on the Xbox; why not use it for PDZ?

Re:Something new, Something Borrowed, Something Bl

[HillBilly]

Doom3 does have a plot but its not as in-your-face as other games.

The plot is fleshed out by reading the PDA's, like what was going on before all hell broke lose etc.

Also after the game you should take some time to think about what was going on with Swann and his body gaurd and what was Sarge's real motives were.

Re:Whats next for the maker of Doom, Quake and Wol

[karstux]

Well, while you're right in saying that there's still unfinished business with Doom3 (porting to other platforms, possible bugfixing), this will occupy only the "technical" part of the team.

The art and story people should be free, and why not ask them to start dreaming up concepts for the next game?

Re:ID's roots are in the horror action genre??

[antoy]

That would seriously rock.