Doom Eternal's core shooting is strong thanks to grand weapons and enemy variety, but it buries the action under irksome resource management and stilted combat arenas. The bland multiplayer and silly platforming only hurt it more, driving this sequel belo...
Enemy variety, Gorgeous environments, Combat has a lot of depth
Not a fan of the Blood Punch
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
Published: 2020-03-27, Author: Phil , review by: gamespot.com
Combat is a constant calculation in the best ways to slay, Well-designed arenas enable speed, mobility, and intensity in battles, Platforming and finding secrets are a fun, welcome break from fights, Pickups from kills create tons of white-knuckle surviva
Tons of tools to manage can be overwhelming and create a long learning curve, Story is overly serious and confusing, Battlemode mostly just adds more people to the experience the campaign already gives
Published: 2020-03-24, Author: Ben , review by: hothardware.com
Abstract: Doom is a game franchise that needs no introduction. In 1992, id Software laid down the groundwork for first-person shooters with Wolfenstein 3D. When Doom came along a year later, the studio cemented its status among elite American game developers, than...
Doom Eternal's issues largely feel like a victim of ambition. They wanted to double down on the balls to the walls craziness and instead of saying no to some ideas, it feels like they crammed absolutely everything into the game. While Eternal manages to s...
There's a really satisfying "pop" when you rip a Cacodemon's eye out, Fast, fun, and stylish
Platforming is hit and miss, but mostly miss, The Marauder is a pain to fight
It's amazing to me that nobody has copied Doom by now. Gears of War spawned an entire generation of stop-and-pop cover shooters. The fact that Glory Kills and speed and mobility haven't found equivalent purchase in the last four years? Criminal—but it doe...
DOOM Eternal is the biggest launch this spring. id Software's new action-shooter aims at bringing back memories that made shooter history. I still remember as a teenager, how we hauled our PCs and CRT monitors around, to set up LAN parties — with ancient...
