
Nintendo Switch fans can now pick up the original DOOM and DOOM II for $4.99 / €4,99 / £3.99 from the Nintendo eShop, with DOOM 3 coming in at the slightly higher price of $9.99 / €9,99 / £7.99.įirst released in 1993, DOOM’s innovated action gameplay makes a worthwhile return and its re-release packs the expansion episode: Episode IV: Thy Flesh Consumed. Best of all, they’re available right now! The original two games are also officially available on iOS as well, and will, amazingly, run at about a dozen times the resolution they originally did back in the ’90s.The action-packed, brutal, demon-slaying classics DOOM, DOOM II, and DOOM 3 have all just been given a surprise re-release on Nintendo Switch and other consoles. Is it still any good to play? Ten dollars lets you find out.

It was a huge graphical advance at the time, and due to its deliberate use of lighting still looks pretty cool, though of course highly primitive in other ways. Probably been a while since you played it that way, right?Īs for Doom 3 - well, my most salient memory of the game is playing the leaked Alpha version, which scared the pants off me and almost put me off the actual game. Importantly, these include 4-play split-screen deathmatch and co-op.

But if your console of choice, with your surroundsound system and big screen, is how you tend to play games, then perhaps it’s worth a tenner to put these enduring classics on there.

Not that you haven’t had ample opportunity to play them - and the thousands of free maps available for PC players - these last couple decades. DOOM, DOOM II, and DOOM 3 are all available now on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4.
