

Marty thinks that naming the game Doom 2 would end up being “a giant pain in the butt because you get all this stuff” in search results. Then there is also the need for making the game easier to find while searching for it online. I still don’t think it was a mistake, because we really were kind of drawing a new line in the sand.” Though it seemed fine with Doom, Stratton realized that “coming out and saying ‘we’re going to do Doom 2,’ we would have ‘Doom 2: Year of Release Date.’” “You hear us say it all the time, we call it Doom 2016, and the internet has called it Doom 2016. We go back and forth on whether it was a mistake to call it Doom.

However, id wanted to avoid the same problem it had with the first game. While it looks like Eternal will be a reimagining of id’s own Doom 2: Hell on Earth and a direct sequel to Doom 2016, the developer has explained why Doom: Eternal is not called Doom 2 or Hell on Earth. Speaking to IGN, executive producer Marty Stratton actually revealed that the studio was considering calling Eternal “DOOM 2“. Clad in the classic, yet updated badass armor and stocked up on a new set of deadly arsenal, Doom Slayer is ready to bring the fight to the demons in our dear old Earth. The Doom: Eternal gameplay reveal from QuakeCon has all of us pretty pumped.
