DOOM 2016
DOOM is a PlayStation 4 shooter game released in 2016 developed by id Software. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 4 twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, speaker, light bar, or motion input where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.2 / 10
About this game
DOOM is a PlayStation 4 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while HD output, HDR or PS4 Pro modes, HDD streaming, surround audio, and television-distance interfaces need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
DOOM is id Software’s first-person shooter series about fighting demons with powerful weapons. Most entries favor constant movement and quick weapon changes, though DOOM 3 takes a slower, horror-focused approach. Later games make attacking part of survival, turning enemies into sources of health, armor and ammunition.
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Exceptional PlayStation 4 shooter experience
DOOM centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, giving the release understandable goals and a recognizable play rhythm. It arranges controls and information around the DualShock 4 twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, speaker, light bar, or motion input where the game uses them. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while the main genre limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. The assessment also covers installs and loading, patches, storage, controller battery, PS VR, performance, and service status for this release. GameNavo judges four dimensions independently before applying fixed weights and excludes press aggregates, user ratings, sales, popularity, source length, media count, and title recognition. Platform merit is recorded only when a concrete hardware use or version implementation supports a small adjustment.
Strengths
- aiming, shooting, and weapon use, and combat encounters provide a readable mechanical foundation.
- Progress is divided into understandable stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones.
- Visual, audio, and interface feedback support the principal rules and state changes.
Weaknesses
- Camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure.
- HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy shooter games, accept PlayStation 4 control and information conventions, and want to judge this release on its own terms.
Play notes: This review covers the PlayStation 4 release without conveniences from emulators, remasters, or other platforms and does not represent a complete playthrough.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities. This dimension weighs new-goal frequency, the difficulty or progression curve, repetition, and recovery after failure. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension DOOM builds its main loop around aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration. The score considers whether input feedback, decision space, and system depth continue to support its goals, while accounting for camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. | Reviewed | 9.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, and this platform specifically asks whether HD output, HDR or PS4 Pro modes, HDD streaming, surround audio, and television-distance interfaces need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. Readability and stylistic consistency matter rather than resolution or hardware scale by itself. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Technical usability covers response, camera behavior, loading, saving, controllers, language, video standard, accessories, and service status for this release. HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release; conveniences from emulators or later platforms receive no credit. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- id Software
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Release date
- 2016
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genre
- Tags
- Fast-pacedDodgeExplorationMain Story Under 10 Hours3D GraphicsSolo-friendlyThird PersonReal-time CombatReplayableLinear LevelsShootingPlayer versus Environment
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single playerCo-opMultiplayer
- Perspectives
- First person
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2016
- PlayStation 4Worldwide2016
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