Doom 2016 Cover Art Parodies

About

Doom 2016 Cover Art Parodies refers to the photoshop alteration of the box art of id Software's Doom , in which the the lettering is replaced with various other logotypes, mocking it's use of the generic "Soldier /w Gun + Title" format utilized by many modern first-person shooters on the market.

Orgin

The Doom (2016) cover art was first revealed from a post from Conan O'Brien's Twitter account 'TeamCoco' on February 3, 2016, promoting the game to be featured in his next episode of the Clueless Gamer segment of his show. The art has seen near universal negative reception from many gaming review sites and blogs, including Polygon^[1], Destructoid^[2], and Gawker Media's gaming blog Kotaku^[3].
It was later confirmed as the official box art by Bethesda Softworks PR manager Pete Hines.^[6]

Spread

On February 4, 2016, a NeoGAF forum topic^[4] was created by the user Boo Boo'n in response to the reveal of the cover art. On February 5, 2016, a poster in that thread named shagg_187 created six iterations of the altered cover art featuring the logotypes of modern first-person shooters, including Halo 5: Guardians, Crysis, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and others^[5]. Many others in the thread followed suit, and it eventually accumulated 848 replies as of February 10th, 2016. These edits have been recognized on a number of popular gaming sites, which helped spawn a number of additional edits of the cover art.

Various Examples

Reverse Cover Art Vote

On March 3, 2016, Bethesda posted a poll on Twitter for users to vote on the reversible cover for the game with two options available to be voted on.

Help us choose the reverse sleeve for #DOOM. Poll is open for 4 days #VoteLikeHell

— DOOM (@DOOM) March 3, 2016

The selections for the vote:

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