I really want to like Doom Eternal more than I actually do. It's mostly because the team at id Software have sprinkled a menagerie of new mechanics on top of the already hectic combat from Doom 2016, resulting in a game can feel very overwhelming at times. I'm definitely not saying the game isn't fun to play—in fact, when every mechanic is clicking and your demoing hordes of demons, it's actually better than Doom 2016. But that exhilaration of feeling like the ultimate badass Doom slayer just doesn't happen often enough. Doom Eternal is a tough game even on the Normal difficulty, so unless you're on top of your game at all times, you hardly ever feel like an unstoppable monster that the Doom Slayer is made out to be. "LOW HEALTH" or "LOW AMMO" would constantly flash on my screen—it honestly felt like these callouts were there 90% of the time. In every encounter you need to juggle executing enemies for health, burning demons for armour, and chainsawing them in half for ammo, and it can get overwhelming to ensure you keep everything in rotation. New additions to the combat like the freeze grenade and the flame belch are neat and work as intended, but because the focus is always on killing enemies and not dying, it's easy to forget about them entirely. There's a bunch of cool mechanics in Doom Eternal, I just wish I wasn't always juggling 20 other things at the same time. One of the best parts of Doom Eternal, other than looking incredible and feeling like butter, are the new Slayer Gates. They act as one-off combat encounters where the game throws everything at you in specifically designed arenas. These are easily the best parts of the game and it made me wish the campaign was as exhilarating—many sections of the campaign felt kind of cramped and not as open for improvisation. There's other disappointing things like the story which feels a little try-hard, some frustrating enemies like the shielded Marauders, or the platforming sections which often felt like filler. It's a fun game, most definitely, but it feels like too much at times.

DOOM: Eternal expands upon the already exceedingly satisfactory DOOM 2016 with new environments painted with a more varied palette, more abilities and ways to maneuver the environment as well as enemies that demand you make use of them where-as the previous title could be coasted through almost entirely with the Super Shotgun once you'd found it even on Nightmare difficulty. Though you'll still find yourself falling back upon the Super Shotgun, over other weapons in my case, due to its new ability to grapple enemies up to a distance away from you and propel yourself at speeds or up to platforms above you towards them into the Super Shotgun's deadly effective range. The abilities are also tailored to allow you to effectively recover all resources from the environment so that once you master their use, you never find yourself lacking for any. Whether it be armor, health, or ammo, all of which will be inevitably expended throughout an encounter. The Super Shotgun's under barrel hook can be upgraded to cast grappled demons aflame, which causes them to drop armor when shot, much like the new flamethrower Belcher provokes. The Chainsaw, of course, returns, again replenishing your ammo with each decapitated demon it slays, as well as other new toys including a grenade launcher on the shoulder opposite the Belcher. The alternative ice bomb munition for this launcher is perhaps the only weapon I found myself almost never coming to use, given the fact that I never once felt the desire to slow things down throughout the hectic battles that bring back all the familiar demons and introduce enjoyable challenges distinct to them through enemies like the Marauder. An enemy that acts more like a mini-boss than any other enemy, where Cyberdemons and even the Doom Hunter you fight as a boss prior to amassing such a wide arsenal and varied abilities in the game become recurring enemies to annihilate with satisfaction. The gameplay due to the new equipment and abilities you are expected to come to use is more hectic for this compared to DOOM 2016, making it so DOOM: Eternal becomes far beyond more of the same despite retreading upon much of the familiar as you explore a ****** campaign that reaches deeper into DOOM lore than 2016's dippings into the ongoings beyond the Slayer's immediate surroundings. And once-more, of course, it is optional to pay attention to these as you can enjoy the campaign without knowing exactly why you traverse from area to area killing ever-more increasingly varied demons in ancient ruins home to the Sentinels, Hell, a facility on Deimos, the moon of Mars, the ruins of space ships in Martian orbit, the ruins of cyberpunk-esque urban settings on Earth, a pristine highly advanced complex home to an alien race with gardens of red trees to water with blood, and with the addition of The Ancient Gods; An oil-rig like oceanic station, underwater research facility, and a Hellish swamp to traverse.

DOOM is indeed ETERNAL, wow what a game! Doom Eternal see's you the 'Demonslayer' defending Earth from the onslaught of demonic creatures, and by defend I mean to literally rip to shreds as your wide arsenal of destructive weapons make for some of the most fun you'll have playing a shooter. The gunplay has been perfected thanks to the wide variety of enemies that each require you take down with certain weapons, this makes for tense and erratic gunfights as you juggle between weapons whilst seamlessly mowing down demons, the gameplay is perfect and the heavy metal music being geared up to 11 makes for adrenaline inducing action. What I didn't necessarily find all that impressive was the story, whilst not terrible was serviceable in its execution and mostly acted as a means to take the player to the next area to kill the wave of enemies that end with some genuinely great boss fights. Overall, Doom Eternal is an excellent shooter and just a really badass time that I'd highly recommend you pick up!

Great game so far. I'm liking it. Was a bit frustrating at first there is a bit of a difference from the first game. One of the few sequels, especially from Bethesda, that is fun to play and meets or exceeds the original. For every bit of wolfenstein 2 sucking, Doom 2 doesn't. I don't know if they moved one team to another or what, but they did something right here. I am playing on the ps4 base model and everything looks great and the load times are pretty good. That said, you don't move as fast around the arenas as other games without power ups and upgrades. If your thinking speeds on the level of the first doom remake, it's not happening here and it could leave you feeling a bit disappointed. I was at first, but the more I play the more I like it for what it is. The multiplayer I haven't played yet, I was actually hoping battle mode was just one mode out of a few, as of 10/26/20 that's the only mode available and they are just making maps for it. That could change. I was hoping for a quake arena mode to tide me over till cod blops came out. I'd you played quake 2 then your in for a treat, the heavy cannon and hell soldiers here look and feel like the rifle and straug from back in the day except overhauled for modern graphics.