14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at id Software and publisher Bethesda are delivering a new trailer for their upcoming Doom, which is set to show off the nine core multiplayer maps to be part of the title on launch.
The footage is very quick, but it manages to run through all the environments in a little more than 30 seconds, offering an overlook of the battlegrounds that gamers will be able to explore when the first-person shooter is out on May 13.
The list of multiplayer maps for Doom features:
- Excavation: a mining outpost created by the UAC which features a powerful rock grinder;
- Chasm: a big map that is set under the polar ice cap of Mars;
- Infernal: a medium sized Hell map with a lot of teleporters, chasms and platforms for gamers to use;
- Helix: a lab where experiments are performed on demons and where advanced weapons are created;
- Disposal: a smaller map that takes place in a waste processing facility that's full of radioactive slime;
- Perdition: an ancient arena filled with the moans of the souls that have been killed within;
- Sacrilegious: a map that takes players to a fracture of Hell;
- Beneath: a cavernous location where the energies of Hell are concentrated before being sent to Earth;
- Heatwave: an industrial facility with glistening walls.
id Software is aiming to deliver a variety of combat situations
The nine maps are very diverse when it comes to location, size and design, and the studio says that it is using two-way teleporters that demons can use, bounce pads, hazard canisters, explosive barrels and slime to make sure that each match is different.
Demons are immune to most of the environmental threats, but id Software says that they can be taken out by lava.
id Software will allow gamers to play a limited number of the maps during the beta period that runs between April 31 and May 3 for all those who have played Wolfenstein: The New Order.
The new Doom will also have a classic single-player campaign that will be fast and focused on taking out enemies as quickly as possible.
The development team says it wants to recapture the spirit of classic shooters, which is why it has abandoned the idea of cover or regenerable health.
Doom will be launched on the PC, the Xbox One from Microsoft and the PlayStation 4 from Sony.
