(Especially movies.) Despite the combined might of Lord of the Rings’ Karl Urban, Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike, and Dwayne Johnson (still billed as “The Rock” on the poster), Doom didn’t excite gamers in the way the actual games did. Released in 2005, Doom did nothing to end the infamous “video game curse,” a long period in which video game stories failed to successfully make the leap into other mediums.
