Atomic Heart Will Have DOOM's Soul Through A Mick Gordon Soundtrack

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Atomic Heart, an upcoming FPS by the Russian game studio Mundfish, will have the same composer as the famed DOOM games, Mick Gordon. DOOM players know well Gordon's high-energy music, and now that music is coming to a brand-new title. Fans of the series, of FPS' in general, and even brand-new players may enjoy rocking out to the game's soundtrack once it releases.

DOOM is a game that's known for being high-octane. Players are almost always killing demons and running around the map, with few breaks in the action. It's gory, it's violent, and has found critical success thanks to the silky nature of its gunplay. A big part of what makes DOOM so good, though, is its heavy metal soundtrack. Mick Gordon is the man responsible for DOOM's famous audio, and now he's working on Atomic Heart. Gordon didn't compose as much of DOOM ETERNAL's soundtrack as he did in the previous entry, which is why the news he's scoring Atomic Heart may come as a pleasant surprise to fans of that series.

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DOOM's soundtrack has contributed to its success in ways that few players will deny, and it simply wouldn't be the same game without it. Atomic Heart will hopefully channel that same frenetic energy into a brand-new title, one that may even rise above the famed DOOM. It shouldn't try to copy it, however, and stand alone as its own title with its own music, music that will hopefully be just as good as fans have come to expect from Mick Gordon.

DOOM is famous for a lot of reasons, and one of them is its music. Anyone who has played DOOM Eternal's Horde Mode knows that the game and its soundtrack mesh and support each other perfectly. DOOM may not be where it is now without it, and many gaming fans, especially