Doom creator John Romero on what's wrong with modern shooter games

The id Software founder talks about secret rooms, the value of guns and what the controversial genre has lost since the 1990s

"Give us more guns!" is a common battle-cry among players of first-person shooters, the videogame industry's bloodiest genre. Doom co-creator John Romero has a rather different opinion.

"I would rather have fewer things with more meaning, than a million things you don't identify with," he says, sitting in a Berlin bar mocked up to resemble a 1920s Chicago speakeasy. "I would rather spend more time with a gun and make sure the gun's design is really deep - that there's a lot of cool stuff you learn about it."