DOOM - Slayer Bunker Buster Drop Pod

From the Archives: DOOM Slayer Bunker-Buster drop pod from around 2014 or so for the intro level in DOOM(2016).

At one point in production there was an idea of the player landing on the surface of mars after being launched like a heavy artillery from an orbital platform or ship. Similar to other drop pods you may find in video games from that time, this is how you would have deployed at the start of your mission.

In particular the design we went with leaned into the idea of something used to smash through layers of building or rock to get to the indended target. This obviously changed to emerging from a tomb under the surface...