doom

Watch a bunch of skeletons get very, very agitated. 

Hands never looked so pretty.

Bethesda brought the fire in this new cinematic trailer for the upcoming release of Doom. I mean, in all fairness you know a video game trailer's about to soar to new heights of hype when you bring on Joe Kosinski (Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) as a director. I'm still getting over that Doom multiplayer game trailer that dropped just a couple weeks ago:



And now we're hit with this screaming, hellish masterpiece? The maddening anticipation is too real right now.

The 'Doom' franchise has long been hailed as the acclaimed forefather of the first person shooter. For quite some time games as established as 'Halo' were coined mere 'doom clones.' But after enough first person shooter gaming, the various communities deemed 'Doom' for what it's always been: the perfect final product of the FPS as a gaming category.

Or that this modernized rendition of 'Doom' (with the multiplayer option) is the undeniable, amped up badass older brother of 'Halo.' There's no getting around the fact that this trailer pushes the boundaries of screaming bloody madness.

As far as the cream of the multiplayer mode crop, 'freeze tag' stands out amongst the rest the pack. A mode of play, which involves two teams squared off in 'team deathmatch' like fashion, where every time anyone gets shot, they're essentially frozen thereafter. Only way a player can regain movement is to have a teammate post up next to them for a measured duration of time. Winning team simply enough is the team that freezes the entire other team.

"Just don't go opening any portals to Hell, okay?"