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Prepare to Meet Thy Doom
- And More True Gaming Stories
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
From Masters of Doom author David Kushner comes Prepare to Meet Thy Doom, a compilation of true gaming stories covering many facets of America's biggest entertainment business: the video game industry. In addition to more than a dozen fascinating tales of game creation, play, business, and controversy, Prepare to Meet Thy Doom follows up on Kushner's previous best seller, Masters of Doom, with a long-awaited update on id Software founders John Romero and John Carmack.
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- 21-02-19
Interesting, but disappointing
This is a tough one - what's in here is interesting (if you're interested in the subject matter) but it's basically just a collection of articles most if not all of which seem to be available on the internet to read.
Further, and more annoyingly, for at least one of the articles it isn't the full article - I noticed when once chapter just abruptly ended ('The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band'). Not sure if there are others.
But, as I say, what is in here is interesting, and the audiobook is read by the always excellent Wil Wheaton, so it's probably worth an Audible credit...
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- Merritt
- 10-09-18
worth a listen if you like gaming history
worth a listen if you like books about the gaming industry but not as good as the first book 'masters of doom'.
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- Hedgehog
- 01-08-20
Should be called random gamedev stories
Has mix match of random game dev stories. I only found a few to be interesting.
Not entirely about ID software and there current situation so I don’t think the title of this book is justified.
Fixed the itch for a book about game devs but for me only about 50% of the book was interesting.
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- J. Griffin
- 24-01-17
good solid book
but not as great as masters of doom I was looking for more of what made masters so great, instead it was a bunch of controversies I was not remotely interested in I was more so wanting to hear about 3d realms, bungie, monolith and other grateful development teams that put so much effort and creativity into the game world.
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- littleflyingunicorn
- 19-09-18
Just a bunch of articles bundled into a "book"
The original Doom book by the author is great. This, much shorter, book in comparison is rather boring in comparison - just a bunch of magazine articles not related one to another bundled into a book. Disappointing.
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- P. Healey
- 01-12-15
A tiny Doom update
If you're interested in this after listening to Masters of Doom, then you may be disappointed. The book is a collection of articles by David Kushner on various gaming related topics.
The first couple are John Carmack / Romero based, but they are repetitive and if you want a more complete update on what they have been up to since the first book, read their Wikipedia entries. There is the odd tidbit, but it is a bit thin.
The other articles are American centric. They are interesting, like the history of Dungeon and Dragons and Atari, but I wouldn't have gone out of my way to learn about them otherwise. Kushner's style of writing also repeats itself due to its format of repackaged articles, which did grate for me. It's not as tightly edited as a proper book would be. Also because these are articles, they miss the context of dates. They all read as happening recently, but that isn't the case since they are spread over the last ten years.
Wil Wheaton's reading is good, as always, it's just the book title is misleading for Doom fans expecting a sequel to Masters of Doom.
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