Doom and Doom II get a ‘definitive’ re-release that’s packed with new stuff

If you haven’t played Doom oregon Doom II for a portion — oregon ever — a caller re-release that Bethesda surprise-dropped (sorta) connected Thursday mightiness beryllium the cleanable excuse to leap successful to the classical games. The re-release, which combines some games into 1 bundle called Doom + Doom II and is simply a escaped update for anyone who already owns Doom (1993) oregon Doom II, offers a agelong database of large caller features — including a marque caller single-player occurrence and online, cross-platform deathmatch multiplayer.

With Doom + Doom II, you’ll person entree to some of those 2 games arsenic good arsenic other single-player contented similar John Romero’s Sigil occurrence released successful 2019 and Legacy of Rust, which is simply a caller Doom occurrence created by “individuals from id Software, Nightdive Studios and MachineGames,” according to Bethesda. You’ll besides beryllium capable to download single-player mods done a caller in-game mod browser.

On the multiplayer front, Bethesda has added 25 caller maps for deathmatch, meaning you’ll person up to 43 to prime from. The cross-platform deathmatch and co-op besides enactment up to 16 players.

The combined bundle volition enactment up to 4K solution and 120fps if you’re playing connected PC, PlayStation, oregon Xbox Series X / S. There’s besides updated euphony for the games by Andrew Hulshult (who worked connected the euphony for Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods DLC), and you tin power backmost and distant betwixt the newer tracks and older tracks whenever you like.

There’s a batch much I didn’t interaction on, and if you’re astatine each funny successful this package, I urge scrolling done the extended spot notes. The crippled is disposable connected PC (via Steam, the Windows Store, the Epic Games Store, and GOG), Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch.

There was 1 different chill portion of retro Doom quality announced today, too: Limited Run Games is moving connected a re-release of Doom connected the SNES. The crippled is acceptable to merchandise successful 2025 — and, naturally, determination volition lone beryllium 666 copies made.