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August 8, 2005 —

Empire Online spoke with actor Karl Urban about his upcoming video game adaptation Doom, and gave up some info on the highly anticipated film.

For starters, it's going to be R-rated, and unapologetically violent, and for the main course, it's got FPS. And if you haven't played the game before, we should tell you that means First Person Shooter, debuted in an astonishing sequence (which Empire first saw at the San Diego Comic-Con) in which we, the audience, see the action through Grimm's eyes as he stalks the corridors of the Martian facility armed with a huge gun, blasting beasties left, right and centre.

Running at around 10 minutes, it's an exact replica of the look and feel of the game, and is simply stunning. "In some ways, it makes cinematic history in that, for the first time, the audience becomes the hero of the film," said Urban, who confirmed that it is his arm that can be seen throughout the sequence, hefting and reloading the gun. "When we go into FPS, the audience is doing the rampage, the audience is doing the work and that is so cool. It's insane!"

Read the rest of the interview by clicking on the link below.