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Doom: Eternal did the impossible and surpassed its already great predecessor in every regard. Its few flaws aren't the result of a lack of effort. On the contrary, they're the inevitable hiccups that come with the developers' ambitious attempts to do everything they envisioned for this sequel. Naturally, not all their ideas will work as well as they intended. But even so, Doom: Eternal remains one of the most innovative and empowering FPS games of recent memory. Time has been and will be kind...
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In Doom Eternal, ripping and tearing has never felt so good, even if the last few chapters really test your patience.
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It’s only when you stop playing, feeling somehow frazzled, energised, and jittery, that you realise the game has as much in common with the audiovisual arts as it does with a double-shot of espresso.
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"That thing is so well optimized it could run on a toaster." is a saying that rings true on Steam Deck for Doom Eternal. Killing demons has never been so easy on-the-go.
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Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 2 gets back in the swing of things.
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Tearing its way onto the Nintendo Switch, ready to put its foot through your chest and rip out your soul is Doom Eternal. Fans have had to endure 9 long months for the port but trust me, it was worth the wait. The demons at Panic Button must have worked with Satan himself in order to bring this hellish title, in all its bloody glory, to the Switch.
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Doom Eternal rips & tears up its quality for worse on Nintendo Switch, but grants an incredible wish by letting players take the highly addictive FPS anywhere.
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Doom Eternal is incredibly demanding, laser-focused, and unapologetically brutal, and it's all the better for it.
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DOOM Eternal is drastically better than DOOM (2016), which was already an incredible game. Some players may not enjoy just how much more complex DOOM Eternal is, but I find it addicting. This is one of the best shooters I’ve ever played.
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Even so, the story in Doom Eternal can be completely ignored and one won't have any less fun with the game, so it's not a huge blemish on the experience by any means. Doom Eternal is a non-stop thrill ride, barraging players with incredible fast-paced action from the opening mission to its blood-soaked finale. Fans of the franchise should be thrilled with it, and anyone looking for a meaty FPS to fill their time can't go wrong with this game.
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2016’s Doom reimagined the classic shooter into a frantic but modern mold. The bloody escapades of the Doom Slayer were rife with bullets and guts. It was a grimy video game hamburger. Doom Eternal is bigger and bloodier, almost to the point of excess. It’s the same hamburger dipped into a vat of delicious special sauce. Except the serving size is so big that it’s hard not to feel a little sick afterwards.
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ID Software and Bethesda surprised everybody in 2016 when they released Doom. Not only did the multiplayer beta release to a resounding sigh, but Bethesda also started a policy in which reviewers wouldn't get a copy of the game until release, creating a lot of doubt. Fortunately, Doom was fantastic and the policy didn't last long. Following the excellent reception of Doom, expectations have obviously been heightened and the anticipation for yet another true old-school shooter is at boiling point. Can Doom Eternal and the Doom Slayer satiate this desire for demonic blood? Let's find out.
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At one point in Doom Eternal, we’re told that "The Only Thing They Fear is You," which is a bold statement to make. id Software, however, gives players the tools to instill that fear in all adversaries the Doom Slayer faces. The game builds on the solid foundation of its predecessor by taking what made it great (the fast and adrenaline-fueled gunplay, the excellent weapons, the enemy variety, etc.) and injecting it with fresh ideas. The greatly expanded mobility and sizable arenas open new combat opportunities. Meanwhile, the added weak points and resource management keep players engaged as they seek...
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Doom Eternal is pure, unadulterated mayhem that indulges in its own brutality, creating a sinfully fun first-person shooter. The multiplayer may be nothing to write home about, but the campaign deserves your undivided attention.
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The game even has a free Battle Pass system which encourages people to grind this multiplayer mode to unlock new skins and other cosmetic elements – an addition of questionable utility in such a game, frankly, where most people will log off after the end credits and not touch a multiplayer mode that clearly feels like an afterthought. At least said multiplayer has the good old Slayer gameplay, and underneath it the brilliant Mick Gordon soundtrack that combines blasting metal and industrial sounds to brilliant results, just like in the campaign. Those who pre-ordered the game can even access the...
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A great, if disjointed, continuation of the demon killing franchise. Visually stunning, tight controls and satisfying combat make for an exciting and enjoyable experience.
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It could be argued that the DOOM Slayer is a god. He slices through the forces of the demonic realm like a hot knife through butter that is then fired out of a cannon at a brick wall. But players will quickly learn that he is mortal too. He is susceptible to succumbing to the demons should he ever slow down or falter. He can indeed die. It’s this balance that id Software manages to strike with almost perfect precision in DOOM Eternal. The DOOM Slayer is mega-powerful, and that power gets put in the player’s hands with an ever-increasing...
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Doom Eternal is completely badass. The soundtrack, the level design, the combat - it all comes together to create a package of adrenaline-fueled rage and destruction. Put simply, it's the best first-person shooter of this generation.
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The hype is real. Ever since I first saw the Doom Eternal reveal at E3 2018, I couldn’t think of another game I was looking forward to the most than the sequel to Id Software’s ultra-violent magnum opus, the Doom reboot/sequel from 2016. I kept myself busy with its Switch port, its passable VR spinoff, and the various re-releases of the original Doom trilogy, such as the Switch version of Doom 3. But what I really wanted was to put my hands on Doom Freaking Eternal. Even though I was some...
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Doom Eternal does a lot of things, but it's really a masterclass in modern action game design. It improves upon its predecessor in nearly every way and has some of the most visceral, furious combat that gaming has to offer.
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DOOM Eternal takes the hugely solid foundations laid down in 2016's excellent franchise reboot and adds more of absolutely everything. This is a bigger, faster, funnier, more relentless and endlessly replayable game than its predecessor and it's one that gives you a ton more variety in how you go about dishing out death to the hordes of hell that await you across its meaty single player campaign. It looks stunning, plays beautifully and is quite simply one of the most strategic, intense and hugely satisfying first-person shooters we've ever played.
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If you are playing Doom Eternal, you may have seen that classic Doomguy skin. If you want to find out how to unlock it, you can check out our guide and show off those sweet abs, just like on the cover of the original Doom cover.
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It isn’t perfect – one or two platforming sections can be a little frustrating, and encounter difficulty varies a lot – but to call DOOM Eternal anything other than phenomenal would be blasphemous. It makes DOOM 2016 feel like a trial run – a warm up to the main event, and that’s what a sequel should do. DOOM Eternal has bigger environments, a wider variety of demons, and more combat options. Its battles are more hectic, more challenging, and ultimately more rewarding. As the credits rolled after a final boss fight to remember, all we had in our minds was...
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Doom Eternal absolutely delivers on all-fronts by blasting us with one of the most intense and satisfying single-player shooter campaigns in years.
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A significant improvement on the reboot and while there are still a few flaws the core combat is some of the best in any first person shooter this generation.
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It’s very clear from playing through the entirety of the campaign that id Software has designed every encounter with a “right way” to play it, and going outside of the lines that have been drawn will cost you – whether it costs you a death, or just some health and armor, is all dependent on how quickly you learn to pull your crayon back inside the lines where it belongs.
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id Software returns with one of the most intense shooters ever.
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Following up smashing success hasn’t been Doom’s strong suit. Doom 3, the long silence that followed, and the ill-fated Doom 4 are striking examples of the series being damned by its own past achievements. But the Doom Slayer kills damned things for a living and eviscerated that slump with the spectacular 2016 reboot; a surprising accomplishment that puts DOOM ETERNAL in the same hellish hot seat that has doomed others before it. Although instead of burning to ash in that hot seat, Eternal rips and tears it wide open, resulting in a more varied and streamlined version of the one...
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Fast, gory, deafeningly loud and unapologetically old-school, id’s soft reboot of its famous series was the shot in the arm we didn’t know the FPS genre needed. And if follow-up Doom Eternal was just more of that, another hundred-mile-an-hour playable metal album, we’d probably be alright with it.
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Even if you're freaked out by monsters, demons, zombies, and everything in between, there's something so empowering about thrashing them all to bloody bits. A game where you rip out a demon's explosive heart to shove it down their throat will never be known for nuance, but there's a place in every gamer's library for the pure adrenaline of Doom Eternal. 8/10.
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Id stumbles very occasionally in its ambition to expand on 2016, but you won’t care when you’re enjoying the best combat in shooters. Pure, animalistic catharsis.
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Hell’s armies have once again arrived on Earth, ready to bring about death and destruction in DOOM Eternal. As the Doom Slayer, it’s your job and your job alone to crush the skulls of your demonic enemies, shower them with bullets, and cut them up into satisfying little giblets.
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Doom Eternal is a smart iteration of what came before it that occasionally stumbles under its own desire to evolve
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Doom Eternal’s combat encounters are, quite possibly, the best in the genre. Snappy movement, a varied arsenal and executions, alongside a soundtrack that mixes atmospheric synths with pounding drums and devastating downtuned guitars all feed into the game’s trademark frenetic action. There’s unrivaled euphoria in crushing a demon’s head underfoot before moving on to kill hundreds more of his friends in equally brutal ways. Really, the only thing holding Doom Eternal back from reachin...
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After a dismal start to the year for new releases, id Software has issued the industry with the firmest kick up the arse imaginable. DOOM Eternal is absolutely incredible. In building off of a fantastic predecessor, the Texas-based studio has reached new heights as its equation of intense, fast-paced action and enjoyable exploration has been enriched with new ideas and mechanics. Platforming can now consider itself a part of that core gameplay loop, and the experience is all the better for it. DOOM Eternal is an unequivocally essential trip to hell and back.
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DOOM Eternal is a worthy sequel to a storied franchise, a celebration of all things DOOM, and one of the finest single-player first-person shooters ever made. Rip and tear, Slayers.
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Doom Eternal is far more than gore, double jumps, and brutal executions. It’s an impeccably designed game that perfectly balances every single aspect of its action to create one of the most challenging, exhausting, and consistently fun shooters in years.
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But these are minor transgressions. They don't come close to souring a delightfully bloody pudding, a tour de force of grizzly decapitation. The highs in Doom Eternal come thick and fast and towering, in the midst of battles that demand total attention. New-new Doom nails that marriage of twitching and planning, the calculated deployment of rampant aggression. It makes you feel godly. I haven't been able to try the multiplayer mode, but it promises asymmetric, player-orchestrated arenas that sound much more intriguing than the underwhelming marine-on-marine action of the last game. And if winds up as another disappointing side-show, so...
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When you’re right in the thick of it, zipping around like a toddler after a pack of Smarties, efficiently and methodically laying waste to the hordes of hell at 900 gibs per minute, this is the strongest Doom has ever been. It’s the combat of Doom 2016 expanded in clever ways, built upon in layers, like the skin and muscles of a demon that you remove in chunks with each trigger pull. Playing it is like catharsis, a virtual wall punch for the modern age.
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