Doom is Bethesda’s best VR game—and that’s bad news for two major “VRPGs”

Enlarge / Toy with a giant Doom monster in VR before you eventually try to kill it in a real mission. (credit: id Software)

LOS ANGELES-I didn't go into this year's E3 thinking that the virtual reality sector needed another danged shooting game. Shooting galleries are already a dime a dozen on every consumer VR platform. At this point, the genre needs something special to stand out.

It needs Doom.

My 10-minute demo with the series' first official VR offering, Doom VFR, did not convince me that this was a must-have, gotta-buy-headset game. But it did rise above the growing VR-shooter fray to thrill and exhilarate. For my jaded eyes, that is no small feat. However, Doom VFR's speed, accessibility, and quality cast a pretty giant shadow on the other Bethesda VR offerings that I played this E3, Fallout 4 VR and Skyrim VR.

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