Doom needs to be "fun and different"

The upcoming Doom game will need to be "fun and different" to prove itself again, according to Bethesda's Pete Hines.

The publisher successfully rebooted Wolfenstein earlier this year, and hopes are high that the same can be done for classic shooter Doom.

"We view [Doom] similarly to Wolfenstein, because it's been so long since the last Doom game," he told MCV. "We are going in as if we need to prove ourselves all over again. We have no free passes. Nobody will assume this is going to be awesome.

"We are going to have to prove that this is something that's going to be fun and different that you need to pay attention to. That has to be our default position, we can't be: 'It's Doom, of course you're going to play it'. But that just makes us work harder."

A release date for Doom has yet to be announced.