Doom is out very soon. In just over two months, as a matter of fact. So now is that magical part of the marketing cycle where we sit back and wait for a steady drip of new information. Today, a multiplayer teaser.
The video below is precisely 43 seconds long, and accounting for opening and closing logos, shows precisely 30 seconds of footage detailing Doom’s multiplayer maps. There are space bases. There is Hell. Doom guys shoot other Doom guys in these space bases and Hell. Look, man, it’s 30 seconds of footage. Watch it yourself.
The Bethesda blog offers a little more detail. Maps will be full of old-school features like bounce pads, exploding barrels, and teleporters, the latter of which will sadly only transport bodies and not bullets. Stages will also be filled with environmental hazards ranging from damaging radioactive slime and fire to insta-kill lava and pits of death.
These are the nine maps you can expect for Doom’s launch:
- Excavation: A modest-sized UAC mining outpost. Watch out for the rock grinder!
- Infernal: A mid-sized Hell map with both interior and exterior elements. Lots of platforms and chasms, along with teleporters.
- Chasm: This massive map takes you deep below the polar ice caps of Mars. A great place to play Freeze Tag.
- Disposal: This smaller map is the main waste processing facility for the UAC research and residential complexes. Unsurprisingly, it’s full of radioactive slime.
- Helix: This is where they experiment on demons and develop advanced weaponry. Which, naturally, makes it perfect for a quick round of Clan Arena.
- Perdition: Disjointed and sadistic, this ancient arena is populated by the agonized moans of unfortunate souls who have suffered within its realm.
- Sacrilegious: Set within a fracture of Hell, this map offers clear lines of sight. Move fast… or die faster.
- Heatwave: An industrial UAC facility with glistening halls that will soon be slicked with human (and demon) blood.
- Beneath: Before being beamed to Earth, the energies of Hell are harnessed in this symmetrical and cavernous location.
Doom is set to release May 13.
