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Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One
The Ancient Gods picks up after the end of the main story in a time where, due to the Slayer's actions, the armies of heaven and hell have fallen out of balance. The demons have flooded in to overtake the weakened angelic realm, so the Slayer's been called in to clean up the mess.
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Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One Reviews
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This DLC is incredibly difficult but thanks to some of the best controls in FPS history, a diverse choice of weapons, and a smart balance of enemy strengths and weaknesses, it is also one of the best DLCs I have played in a long time. The story is far better than it has any right to be and it keeps up its mix of legitimately cool set pieces without ever becoming self-serious. If you loved DOOM Eternal then you will love The Ancient Gods Part 1. It is the best the series has ever been.
Hell boils over.
Doom Eternal's first expansion, The Ancient Gods — Part One, stumbles in a few areas, but it's ultimately a damn good addition to the foundation laid earlier this year.
If DOOM Eternal was the kick up the arse the gaming industry needed towards the start of this year, DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One will leave those buttocks raw. The Slayer himself has returned with the first instalment in a new expansion so utterly relentless that a rude awakening is in order for even those who reckon they mastered the base game. At its heart, this is much more DOOM Eternal. However, given the outstanding quality of that particular title, an even tougher take on what we've come to know and love is an irrefutable proposition.
The Ancient Gods Part 1 had the pressure of following up Doom Eternal’s brilliant campaign. And it did so elegantly by upping the difficulty, adding in worthy new foes, and ending on a ludicrous cliffhanger. The Ancient Gods Part 2 now has the pressure of following up not only the original game, but that fantastic first episode as well. The Ancient Gods Part 2 buckles under some of that pressure and is a comparatively weak trilogy-ender, but it’s also a decent Doom expansion thanks to its signature gunplay and killer soundtrack.
It's more of the same, but when the same is of such high quality it's easy to forgive
Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One has taught me something. Actually, it has taught me a few things. The first is that you can unlearn how to play Doom. It seems a lifetime ago when I reviewed the game, though it was only seven months ago. That's more indicative of how long 2020 has been, not that I have the lifespan of a mayfly. The second thing is that the art of creating a good, meaty, expansion isn't lost in the games industry.