Doom (2016) Reviews

Doom (2016) is ranked in the 95th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Ken Barnes
Top Critic
9 / 10
May 26, 2016

Doom is a big, loud, visceral experience that not only impresses visually with a silky-smooth framerate and detailed texture work, but which reaches into your soul and jacks up your heartrate as it does so. Some would say that things are a little bland in terms of plot, but playing Doom for the story would be like watching a baseball match because you're a fan of diamonds. The multiplayer is playable but a little less so than you'd expect, but that's more than made up for by the campaign. It's fast, fun, violent, addictive, and highly recommended.

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Dave-K
Top Critic
9 / 10
Sep 3, 2016

This is, in my honest opinion, the definitive First Person Shooter, locked and stocked with two smoking barrels. Get ready to fight like hell.

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9 / 10.0
Jun 2, 2016

‎DOOM is a real game... if we ignore its multiplayer. The campaign is long, frantic, varied and spectacular. Control is a delight and SnapMap will allow players to do wonders. It is a gift for lovers of classic shooters and the DOOM saga.‎

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9 / 10.0
May 18, 2016

But if you enjoy honest action, this is a game that must not be missed in your collection and certainly does not make the great-father of the genre a bad name.

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9 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2016

Doom is a game that I did not ever expect to be remade, but it feels great. The combat is fierce, and the game's focus on combat is right on target. The guns feel solid, and the monsters feel vicious. The game looks great and plays smoothly with music and sound that is responsive and as intense as the action in front of you. The glory kills and arenas keep the blood pumping from beginning to end and you definitely earn those upgrade points. Although the load times can be a little annoying, the levels themselves play without any issues after the initial load. Overall, the game is an excellent package, bringing Doom back into modern gaming with the spirit of the old gameplay intact for long time fans and adding features that enhance the experience. If you have a PS4 and you have a passing interest in shooters, do not miss this excellent game.

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May 18, 2016

Bloody brilliant. Both literally and figuratively. The gore flies as heads explode, as I bounce like a Satanic bunny all over the map at break-neck speeds within a beautiful engine.

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9 / 10.0
May 27, 2016

DOOM offers nothing innovated, but instead, executes everything that we have already come to know and love about FPS games to perfection.

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9 / 10.0
Jun 28, 2016

In it's full splendor, Doom is a complete package, and a very good one. What stands out above all is it's single player campaign, which is enjoyable from beginning to end, putting us in the least-likely-to-survive situations while queueing and outstanding music reminiscent of the 1993 classic. Multiplayer is not as good, but it's worth a try, especially worth trying out is the ingenious Snap-Map level creator.

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9 / 10
Aug 21, 2017
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9 / 10.0
Apr 17, 2018

With an incredible level of visual quality, responsive controls and a kick ass lineup of monsters, it's not to have fun. Everything has been executed in a way that brings the original game back to life for a new generation. This reboot could not have been executed any better. The game succeeded in being everything that it should have and was done with such a high level of polish that it was a huge pleasure to play.

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9 / 10.0
May 25, 2016

Putting aside the bad multiplayer mode and experience, DOOM was fun at best! It was fast-paced, and it was satisfying – that glory kill move on Baron of Hell was awesome. Graphics surely caught my attention. The world of Hell and Mars in DOOM is one place that every hardcore first-person shooter lovers would get into all over and over again. It was surely, again, enjoyable, and it didn't disappoint me at all.

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9 / 10.0
May 28, 2016

DOOM is a glorious return to form for the franchise. The game oozes classic design while improving itself with new-gen hardware. Exciting combat, glorious kills and enough heavy metal to give you lead poisoning, demons beware! Doom guy has returned!

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9 / 10.0
May 24, 2016

This is hands down the best DOOM ID Software has made. The gore, music, visuals, and more are all spot on. It's totally worth the $60 you spend.

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9 / 10.0
May 31, 2016

As the best possible compromise between shooters of old and the new trends in the genre, DOOM is just the game for anyone craving that sweet hyperactive and ultraviolent action and is a game that has absolutely earned the right to have its title written in full-caps.

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9 / 10.0
Mar 7, 2021

Doom 2016 is definitely a hit and miss, and after the not-so-successful third installment, id Software's efforts certainly paid off. A return to the good old mechanics and visuals is exactly what gamers wanted from the new DOOM. Add a hefty helping of brutal carnage, hordes of enemies and hectolitres of their blood spilled, along with a hyped-up metal soundtrack, and you have a totally unique gaming experience.

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8.9 / 10.0
May 30, 2016

Doom is back to its fast, frantic and gruesome best. Marine! Get ready to kick some demon scum ass as this is one of the surprise hits of the year, find out why in our review.

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89 / 100
May 14, 2016
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88 / 100
May 18, 2016

Despite a drab multiplayer mode and limited level creation tools, Doom is a cheeky and fulfilling return to pared-down acrobatic gunplay.

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8.8 / 10.0
May 17, 2016

The campaign is a glorious, bloody return to form for the godfather of first-person shooters, but the multiplayer and SnapMap can't match

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8.8 / 10.0
May 13, 2016

Exaggerated, violent, ruthless. Bethesda and idSoftware took the essence of the shooters you played in the 90s and rewrote it with a modern language. DOOM is an unstoppable FPS, with a bloodthirsty single player campaing and a solid Multiplayer, unfortunately showing some balancing problems.

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