I know 3 stars is alreay selling this game short with respect to the absolute feat it was when it was released, but I'll try to evaluate it as it stands today not how groundbreaking it was when it released. While the gameplay is tight and captivating, very few games can rank highly for me on gameplay alone, and that may be due to my habit to focus on characters and vicarious feeling in any given piece of media. While there's much to say about how this game controls, the inventiveness of the level-design, and the massive creativity that went into creating such a work, it is difficult for me to care much when there's little to no real plot and the protagonist has only the most extremely basic motives. I know this may seem a grossly extraneous qualm in the scope of what most computer gaming was designed to be back when this was released, but I believe it to be a core necessity in any piece of fiction and any fiction that undersells in this department will be hard-pressed to achieve great heights unless it really does showcase some extraordinary superbness in other departments which I just don't quite feel DOOM does for me. All in all I felt a kind of blandness while playing, trudging on to complete the game just to be able to say that I did, all the while not being terribly gripped by world I was immersed in.