Doom and Doom II get a ‘definitive’ re-release that’s full of upgrades

If you happen to haven’t performed Doom or Doom II for some time — or ever — a brand new re-release that Bethesda surprise-dropped (sorta) on Thursday may be the right excuse to leap in to the traditional video games. The re-release, which mixes each video games into one bundle known as Doom + Doom II and is a free replace for anybody who already owns Doom (1993) or Doom II, affords an extended record of nice new options — together with a model new single-player episode and on-line, cross-platform deathmatch multiplayer.

With Doom + Doom II, you’ll have entry to each of these two video games in addition to additional single-player content material like John Romero’s Sigil episode released in 2019 and Legacy of Rust, which is a brand new Doom episode created by “people from id Software program, Nightdive Studios and MachineGames,” based on Bethesda. You’ll additionally be capable of obtain single-player mods by way of a brand new in-game mod browser.

On the multiplayer entrance, Bethesda has added 25 new maps for deathmatch, that means you’ll have as much as 43 to choose from. The cross-platform deathmatch and co-op additionally help as much as 16 gamers.

The mixed bundle will help as much as 4K decision and 120fps if you happen to’re taking part in on PC, PlayStation, or Xbox Collection X / S. There’s additionally up to date music for the video games by Andrew Hulshult (who labored on the music for Doom Everlasting: The Historical Gods DLC), and you’ll change forwards and backwards between the newer tracks and older tracks everytime you like.

There’s much more I didn’t contact on, and if you happen to’re in any respect on this bundle, I like to recommend scrolling by way of the extensive patch notes. The sport is out there on PC (by way of Steam, the Home windows Retailer, the Epic Video games Retailer, and GOG), Xbox One, Xbox Collection X / S, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Change.

There was one different cool piece of retro Doom information introduced at present, too: Restricted Run Video games is engaged on a re-release of Doom on the SNES. The sport is about to launch in 2025 — and, naturally, there’ll solely be 666 copies made.