I beg your pardon?

First, an explanation of this post’s title: anyone that’s played Lucasarts‘ TIE Fighter (click here for an excellent piece that explains why I still load it up from time to time today) for a decent length of time (read: spent [if not exactly wasted, let's be understated and say spent] life away playing video games with only yourself in the room, something I’m more and more loathe to do), will remember how bizarre it was to see that one of your wingmen (who sometimes happens to be Darth Vader) possessed the callsign “DOOM ON YOU”. It seemed so unnecessarily harsh a message, especially since we were fighting on the same side… but then… he is Darth Vader. Correction: it appears the wing commander had his cargo listed as DOOM ON YOU as an in-game joke because if he got cut down in a fiery ball of ions, he knew you would take his place as wing commander. Cute.

Doom Resurrection

Doom Resurrection is a first person shooter for the iPhone. I quite enjoyed reading this review of the game/interview with its creators. I think it says something about the direction we’re going in as a society with high-end technology in our pockets (something many of us always dreamed about as geek-kids, and secretly still hope for more and better, such as 3D hologram visuals - something I believe the magical “they” people are working on).

Here is how the The Mac Gamer opens:

“Somewhere, somehow, someone decided that the benchmark for any new gaming platform would be a First Person Shooter. Maybe it’s our human compulsion for creating environments regardless of the location’s suitability: ski resorts in Dubai, metropolis’s built on fault lines, beaches in the middle of Mexico City and a First Person Shooter on every platform under the sun, controls be dammed [sic]. We’ve seen FPS shooters on the PSP with its lack of secondary analogue controller, the DS with its touch screen and D-Pad, and now the iPhone with it’s lack of traditional hardware controls.”