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  2. Hitting Doom Where It Hurts

Fri, 10/21/2005 - 05:42 by narcogen

The dismal reviews that the Doom movie is getting so far-- check Metacritic.com for a summary-- normally don't have anything to do with Bungie or Halo.

However, when the Halo movie is finally released, the comparisons will be inevitable; Doom was the first popular first-person shooter, and Halo is the most popular Xbox shooter.

So I got a kick out of this quote in the Austin Chronicle's review of Doom:

Doom is based on a wildly popular video game – not quite as popular as Halo, mind you – and its plot reflects that. Briefly, a portal to Mars is discovered in the Nevada desert and, before you know it, American scientists are up there being devoured by God knows what.

Call me crazy, but I think that the combined shareware and commercial success of Doom, Doom 2, and Doom 3 (for the PC and the Xbox), might actually give the Halo franchise a run for its money, popularity-wise.

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Claude Errera

Hehe...

Fri, 10/21/2005 - 09:20

You're living in the past, dude. Its all about NOW!

:)

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"Popularity"

Fri, 10/28/2005 - 16:23

Sales and revenue are not even an accurate measure of popularity. Halo is on top right now, but DOOM was the first word in FPS for a decade. It's the origin of the species.

Over the years, DOOM has probably been downloaded for free more times than HALO has been purchased.

It's a different industry now.

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