Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Video Games/@comment-216.80.140.168-20140624020305/@comment-6078851-20140625134721

while doom wasn't labeled as a survival-horror when it came out, that's more to do with the fact the survival-horror didn't exist as an actual genre at the time. but if you consider how doom made you feel the first you played through it - you kill this and kill that and then are walking down one of its inumerable corridors when you hear some weird noise, or noises. you then stop moving and turn on the spot, looking for danger and thinking "what the hell was that?! and where did it come from?!" next thing you know a wall has disappeared and there's a ton of creatures coming at you!

it was definitely a pure fps but it also was a survival-horror, or at the very least it encompassed survival-horror elements before such elements were refined into the genre of survival-horror by the likes of resident evil. consider avp when playing as a marine - again it's a pure fps but it's also totally survival-horror :)