DOOM Eternal

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  1. Theyogitrade
    Mar 21, 2020
    4
    The multiplayer...

    no one's talking about it. Would be a 10 out of 10 if there was a traditional multiplayer, or atleast more then a single multiplayer gamemode,not to mention to mention the extreme lack of options for the one gamemode there is, absolutely no progression system aside from cosmetic stuff. Single player was legendary, it's just multiplayer was a extreme disappointment :(
  2. Troopski
    Mar 22, 2020
    4
    I played for 3 hours and have requested a refund. Im sure some people may like it, but I am not willing to pay full price for a few reasons. If you wanted a sucessor to doom 2016, this isnt it.

    -Action is broken up by slippery platfoming and cutscenes. -The arenas and map design seems cluttered, i get stuck on emenies, invisible walls, ledges and fences too often, which causes death    I played for 3 hours and have requested a refund. Im sure some people may like it, but I am not willing to pay full price for a few reasons. If you wanted a sucessor to doom 2016, this isnt it.


    -Action is broken up by slippery platfoming and cutscenes.

    -The arenas and map design seems cluttered, i get stuck on emenies, invisible walls, ledges and fences too often, which causes death (playing on UV)

    -It is a little cartoony, strange choice.

    I may pick it up for half price.    … Expand
  3. DiZero
    Mar 24, 2020
    4
    They took an old and proven formula that made Doom (2016) so enjoyable, and ruined it by adding elements with the only intent of watering down the gameplay. Most of these elements aren't particularly annoying, but the excruciating sections of "platforms" to get from a (very good) battle to another are enough to take out most if not all my enjoyment.
    If you enjoy jumping around from a    They took an old and proven formula that made Doom (2016) so enjoyable, and ruined it by adding elements with the only intent of watering down the gameplay. Most of these elements aren't particularly annoying, but the excruciating sections of "platforms" to get from a (very good) battle to another are enough to take out most if not all my enjoyment.
    If you enjoy jumping around from a platform to another, timing your jumps etc, then feel free to add 3 or 4 points to my opinion.    … Expand
  4. megabot
    Mar 27, 2020
    4
    Not a worthy successor to Doom 2016. This game was marketed as a direct continuation to Doom 2016, but they've changed so much to the point that the only thing shared between them is the name.

    To summarize, what I expected was a slightly beautified battle arena in the Doom universe that was first and foremost a first-person shooter, but instead I got a 3D puzzle-platformer tactical    Not a worthy successor to Doom 2016. This game was marketed as a direct continuation to Doom 2016, but they've changed so much to the point that the only thing shared between them is the name.

    To summarize, what I expected was a slightly beautified battle arena in the Doom universe that was first and foremost a first-person shooter, but instead I got a 3D puzzle-platformer tactical arcade shooter with an annoying and complex game mechanics, atrocious storytelling and some really bad level design. I'm not even sure I'll touch any Doom game ever again, I think the franchise has been completely ruined for me. Oh yeah and Bethesda wants you to login to their servers for a single-player game.

    Below are five of my biggest problems with the game, there is more, but these five are at the top:

    1. Disappointing game mechanics. Doom Eternal tries to force you to multitask in very specific ways, while not offering anything of substance to learn. This makes the game difficult because you now have six (6!) timers to pay attention to, while not being challenging to more experienced players like myself because the AI is easily exploited and the game still suffers from the same problems Doom 2016 had. Quake 3 was a good example of very challenging game with simple mechanics.

    2. Terrible tone and atmosphere. They threw away everything they learned in Doom 2016 and went straight to confetti, rainbows, popups, tutorials, punchables, ripatoriums and other nostalgia crap that doesn't fit a sequel to Doom 2016.

    3. Storytelling is cringey and expository. We no longer have characters with agency, we don't learn anything about the Doom universe from interacting with it and its characters, everything is now expository, badly written lore floats like toilet paper in the crapper at random places and the game now showers the player with videos and cut-scenes.

    4. Platforming & puzzles. I just don't want any platforming a la Prince of Persia or Spider-man in my Doom game nor do I want puzzles in my Doom. Jumping is fine, a bit of climbing like its was done in Doom 2016 is also fine, but swinging from monkey-bars and climbing walls is just unacceptable. I come for the battle arenas, if I want a spider-man game I'll go and play spider-man.

    5. The Marauder breaks the game completely. The whole time the game teaches you that movement is everything, you must move if you want to survive, and yet when the Marauder comes in you are forced to stand still and wait for the green eyes. At the same time, the AI can be cheesed and you can kill it in literal seconds either by grenades and the crucible sword or by using SSG-balista-SSG combo. It's just not fun.

    Overall, if Bethesda had marketed Doom eternal as a game unrelated to Doom 2016, I'd have given it a good 7/10. That it deserves. But sequels are called sequels for a reason, and this is not a sequel. I cannot in my right mind give this game more than 4 points for it's a deeply flawed game and for Bethesda's marketing practices where they intentionally prevented independent reviewers from obtaining the game before release.    … Expand
  5. niqht
    Mar 27, 2020
    4
    I just can't. There is so much platforming, and even Mario style spinning fireball bars and climbing around on walls/fences, it doesn't feel like a proper shooter. The repetitive melee quick time events are in your face, over the top, and dull after the 50th time.
    I want to shoot things in a shooter with enough ammo to keep shooting things.
  6. KillThePoor
    Mar 27, 2020
    4
    There is so much to like in this game but it has three fatal issues that have ruined the experience for me.

    Positives: Excellent graphics, nice meaty weapons and weapon sounds, rocking metal sound track, lots of fast paced action. It's Doom: any problem you can't solve with a gun, you solve with a bigger gun (or a chainsaw)! So far so good. Negatives: No quick save, in fact no    There is so much to like in this game but it has three fatal issues that have ruined the experience for me.

    Positives: Excellent graphics, nice meaty weapons and weapon sounds, rocking metal sound track, lots of fast paced action. It's Doom: any problem you can't solve with a gun, you solve with a bigger gun (or a chainsaw)!

    So far so good.

    Negatives: No quick save, in fact no manual save at all, just checkpoints.

    Much harder difficulty level than any Doom or Id Software game than I can ever recall before, going back to January 1993 when I first played Wolfenstein 3D. Even on the easiest difficulty ("I'm Too Young To Die") it's a rather difficult game in places. How the hell anyone could be masochistic enough to play on the highest difficulty ("Ultra-Nightmare") is beyond me.

    A significant amount of jumping puzzles (some of which are also time limited) make the game extremely frustrating to play as you have to do some sequences many times if you can't coordinate multiple jump and dash moves and there's no manual or quick save option to help you get through this.

    This is Super Mario Doom and I've stopped playing it as it's just not fun. I've been a gamer for nearly 30 years and I'd struggle to think of a game that was as disappointing as this one.    … Expand
  7. engello
    Mar 29, 2020
    4
    Please, do not put platforming into my doom.
    If you do, at least dont force it into main quest.
    I wont go through that game again solely because of the U***k platforms. Also, this game turned from "use different weapons to kill demons" to "use this key in a huge keychain to unlock on of thousands doors" with crit system and scarce ammo. I had to turn down the difficulty from    Please, do not put platforming into my doom.
    If you do, at least dont force it into main quest.
    I wont go through that game again solely because of the U***k platforms.

    Also, this game turned from "use different weapons to kill demons" to "use this key in a huge keychain to unlock on of thousands doors" with crit system and scarce ammo.
    I had to turn down the difficulty from nightmare to ultra violence because you dont have time to deal with m****der crap while you being obliterated by constant spawning "ammo boxes".

    The music is lit, as always, Mick Gordon sets the mood just right.    … Expand
  8. Solar_Axis
    Apr 2, 2020
    4
    If I'm being completely honest about Doom Eternal from my first impressions, in one word, it would be uncomfortable. It reminds me of being drunk with friends one night and waking up on a strangers floor listening to them argue about breakfast without ever going for breakfast. It feels like a shell of a revival. The irony in the name, to take the momentum from the previous game and justIf I'm being completely honest about Doom Eternal from my first impressions, in one word, it would be uncomfortable. It reminds me of being drunk with friends one night and waking up on a strangers floor listening to them argue about breakfast without ever going for breakfast. It feels like a shell of a revival. The irony in the name, to take the momentum from the previous game and just drop it like this, it's so strange. It's as if Bethesda hates gamers, took an IP everybody loved, and mad about the fallout76 failure held Doom in front of us and carved a big smile into it's lifeless face. It's over the top violence like tom and jerry, not like a Doom, and its reflected in the design choices constantly. The sound effects are taken straight out of the pages of Hannah Barbara (bottle popping sounds for headshots, exaggerated gulping sounds, farting platforms with a static texture pasted over it..)
    Remember when family guy got cancelled and then it came back years later but was weirdly computer animated and just mean for no apparent reason other than because they think that's what people like? In a game about killing demons this seems to lack soul.

    It plays extremely well. I was really impressed how smooth it ran though I noticed no difference between high and "ultra nightmare" graphics, but that's likely due to the ease of optimizing such an empty linear level. The monsters move like robotic action figures. I would love to be through an endearing nightmarish experience with story and platforming. Titanfall 2 for example. You can have story, jump puzzles, mechanics whatever else, and still make a really good game, so I look forward to having my impressions shoved back in my mouth, but I highly doubt I'll be able to get immersed enough to not feel patronized when I'm teleporting around with 'E' watching disney: after dark mini-cutscenes and being punished for exploring while launching over small stair-shaped ramps like a table-hockey puck and getting stopped every couple of minutes so I can read how to use the new mechanics when all I want to do is explore the map without get pushed off the edges of the world by invisible walls that are angled and smooth enough to slide you into a respawn facing where you should go.

    It's a patronizing experience.
    W to move forward guys.. If you're worried about accessibility put a tutorial mode in. Reading isn't fun in all the situations Doom forces and if the levels aren't designed to teach players those mechanics intuitively then it's not the players fault for thinking the game isn't fun. It's actually a kids game, and the dichotomy of doom being a kids game is extremely uncomfortable to me as I play it.

    That all said it's a good shooter and it maintains that Doom sensation of constant buildup as you're being collapsed on by enemies, it's just of way worse quality development than it's predecessor and feels perverted. No idea why it's this way other than budget. Obviously the music is of the same quality if not better, but the game is not.    … Expand
  9. thomasmeissner
    Apr 13, 2020
    4
    The game is far too hard. At times it is "Dark Souls-hard" and I find that very frustrating. I rage quit and uninstalled after playing 80 % through the game when I encountered a super hard boss mob I simply could not beat. This is not a good, classic Doom game, this is some weird "Doom-Dark Souls-mongrel", I simply cannot enjoy. 60 € wasted... what a pity.
  10. AnryReviewer
    May 8, 2020
    4
    The original DOS Doom was great, the next Doom was great - a lot of suspension, excellent game, the Doom before Doom Eternal was ok - more fighting, but a good game, And then there came Doom Eternal.

    Doom Eternal plays like this: arena - jumping - arena - jumping - arena - jumping - arena - jumping - arena - jumping - etc. The arenas go like this: running in circles, shoot, NO AMMO,    The original DOS Doom was great, the next Doom was great - a lot of suspension, excellent game, the Doom before Doom Eternal was ok - more fighting, but a good game, And then there came Doom Eternal.

    Doom Eternal plays like this:
    arena - jumping - arena - jumping - arena - jumping - arena - jumping - arena - jumping - etc.

    The arenas go like this: running in circles, shoot, NO AMMO, change weapon, running in circles, shoot, NO AMMO, change weapon, running in circles, shoot, NO AMMO, etc. - very annoying

    The Jumping goes like this: jump, dash, jump, jump, search for a key, double dash jump, miss the ledge, DIE, start over - dash, double jump, miss the item, DIE, start over - dash, double jump, etc. - until you make it to the other side - awful.

    GOOD:
    - great GFX
    - great sound and music

    BAD
    - the jumping is annoying - like you have to finish homework first to continue with the game - this is the Doom Slayer, not Lara Croft
    - slime pits where you can only walk very slowly and not jump
    - acid pits where you have to swim around and figuring out some puzzle while losing health
    - NO AMMO - constantly no ammo, and the big enemies need hundreds of shots.. also very annoying
    - after finishing an annoying endboss (e.g. the guy with the shield), he appears later in the game in the arenas - so you have to fight him again (and again) with dozens of other monsters attacking at the same time.. and you run in circles, with NO AMMO, constantly getting hit by some of the other monsters, which gain more and more speed later in the game
    - you have guns with two functions, you have grenades, flame, ice, jump, dash, punch, chainsaw... - way too much stuff for a game where dozens of monsters run towards you, and you have to act quickly to not get hit constantly.
    - you constanly have to change weapons in the arenas (because there is NO AMMO) - this takes time and is super annoying
    - many of the weapons take way too long to power up, or are too weak, too slow, etc. - but you can not discarde these weapons (which nobody needs) - and you have to constantly switch through all weapons during the fight
    - later fights go on and on and on and on... a big boss appears.. then another one, then another one... and then you get stuck at a corner, or didn't catch a ledge - and you DIE in two seconds - and have to play the arena all over again - man, what a waste of time...
    - later arenas are only button smashers and running and jumping, dashing, double jumping and shooting with NO AMMO - the monsters get faster, and you get hit all the time - no strategy at all - running in circles, jumping, shooting - while monsters and more monsters spawn all the time.
    - no satisfaction in completing a level or the game - after every mission I've hoped that this is the end of the game, because the fun factor playing this annoyance was very low.

    I don't know who likes to play this game - annoying jump sequences, arenas where you win by running in circles while randomly smashing buttons, where you constantly have NO AMMO, and get constantly hit.

    This game could have been great, but playing Doom Eternal is equivalent to work without pay - it makes no fun due to constant jumping and running in circles, it wastes your time, and is constantly annoying.

    What a waste... don't buy it - Doom Eternal is no fun at all.

    Cheers    … Expand
  11. caleca54
    Nov 5, 2020
    4
    Это дум 16 года со специфичными изменениями. Объективно назвать ее хуже прошлой части нельзя но я считаю что итернал это стагнация и в общем выглядит как неудачная попытка переосмысления вызванная то ли жаждой денег то ли идиотской мыслью о том что можно будет сделать тоже самое что и 4 года назад и оно тоже выстрелит. По сути ничего координально нового в отличии от того как перевернулЭто дум 16 года со специфичными изменениями. Объективно назвать ее хуже прошлой части нельзя но я считаю что итернал это стагнация и в общем выглядит как неудачная попытка переосмысления вызванная то ли жаждой денег то ли идиотской мыслью о том что можно будет сделать тоже самое что и 4 года назад и оно тоже выстрелит. По сути ничего координально нового в отличии от того как перевернул представление серии прошлый дум и в этом вся проблема. Нам пихают тоже самое просто под другим соусом. Отсутствие такой радушной реакции на новые изменения может даже не говорить о том что стало хуже а о том что эмоции от того дума вызваны не только качеством реализации фич но и тем что до него подобного небыло в отличии от нынешней ситуации.… Expand
  12. szgezu
    May 21, 2020
    4
    The graphics are fantastic. The atmosphere, the control is great.
    The gameplay is dull. You have no other option than use the final kill move all over and over again otherwise your resources deplete. The final execution move is the same all the time. It just get boring right after the first level. It is like a short cutscene that you have to see 10000 times ti finish the game.
  13. zector45
    May 24, 2020
    4
    This game is basically all puzzles and platforming now, which SUCKS! I didn't buy Doom for platforming and puzzles. I bought it to shoot and kill things, which is sometimes fun in this game, if you can get past the other aspects that are stupid and boring.
  14. thebiggestsiw
    May 25, 2020
    4
    Weak plot, too much pathos and no atmosphere in the game. Stupid decisions, like the open armor of Doomguy (open armor in space!!! ), flying fire chains when enslaving the planet ... And now, Denuvo anti-cheat which cant give you start the game even if you wont play on the net.

    For comparison, after the DOOM Eternal, DOOM 2016 seems much more modern and interesting. It is unfortunate    Weak plot, too much pathos and no atmosphere in the game. Stupid decisions, like the open armor of Doomguy (open armor in space!!! ), flying fire chains when enslaving the planet ... And now, Denuvo anti-cheat which cant give you start the game even if you wont play on the net.

    For comparison, after the DOOM Eternal, DOOM 2016 seems much more modern and interesting. It is unfortunate that the developers have lowered the bar.    … Expand
  15. DavidDeDavidson
    May 28, 2020
    4
    Doom 2016 was simple, to the point, combat felt like it had weight to it, brutal, irreverent story that fit but was mostly just an excuse to shoot more demons and largely unobtrusive, over-the-top, but not excessively goofy. It's the Electric Wizard Dopethrone of video games.

    Doom Eternal is trying to cram as much **** as possible into it, story has to be as big as possible, hope you    Doom 2016 was simple, to the point, combat felt like it had weight to it, brutal, irreverent story that fit but was mostly just an excuse to shoot more demons and largely unobtrusive, over-the-top, but not excessively goofy. It's the Electric Wizard Dopethrone of video games.

    Doom Eternal is trying to cram as much **** as possible into it, story has to be as big as possible, hope you liked the chainsaw because it's now a central gameplay mechanic turning basic demons into rainbow treat pinatas, anything that isn't the most basic demon is killed with weakspots that the game tells you about in tutorials so don't worry about figuring things out yourself, you're doing flips and climbing walls and jumping around like an **** This is like if Dragonforce or Blind Guardian were turned into a game, cheesy, goofy, retarded story and atmosphere, mechanical wankery which some people will certainly like and respect but which to me is just in the way and beyond adding nothing of value to the previous game's experience, actively detracts from everything I liked about it.

    That being said, it's of course very mechanically impressive and that kitchen sink game philosophy will resonate with plenty of people. But personally, I can't stand it and got this game refunded. Maybe I'll give it a 2nd chance when it's 15$.    … Expand
  16. Zargas
    Oct 7, 2020
    4
    Doom 2016 was a great reboot after the horrible Doom 3 game.

    Its was a fresh start and a welcome one at that. Doom eternal looked at that and decided to make Doom again BUT boring. A doom game with farming, great idea! Any speed, any fluid motion or any fun weapon handling is thrown out the door. Ammo is limited to make you do fatalities. Health is limited to make you do    Doom 2016 was a great reboot after the horrible Doom 3 game.

    Its was a fresh start and a welcome one at that.
    Doom eternal looked at that and decided to make Doom again BUT boring.
    A doom game with farming, great idea!

    Any speed, any fluid motion or any fun weapon handling is thrown out the door.
    Ammo is limited to make you do fatalities.
    Health is limited to make you do fatalities.
    Armor is limited to make you do fatalities.

    Are you noticing a pattern?
    You are constantly farming so you can have fun.

    The game is not hard or easy that depends on your selection but as the game wants you to play with its weapons it forces you to constantly change your weapons in fights.

    Fatalities are not boring, i like them i just do not like have 2 different ones and 1 farming one to make sure i can have fun.

    Doom is a powerhouse they managed to convey that, the dude is a PTSD to demons.
    However that is not how he playes.
    Doom 2016 was death incarnate for demons, Doom eternal is a marine in power armor.
    I want Doom marine from 2016 back for the next game. But with the feel of eternal please.

    The game is not bad, you will have fun.
    BUT its boring. And that is worse then bad.

    Dev's I dont want a farming game, that is why i dont play Asian MMO's.
    Please for the next game make it less of a farming simulator and more of a world ending powerhouse simulator.    … Expand
  17. Zerorion
    Dec 20, 2020
    4
    I can't exactly put a finger on it, but after forcing myself to finish this game, I realized that I didn't have much fun doing it. I feel like this game constantly forced me to run away from enemies instead of confidently dismantling them one by one like I did in 2016. I still gritted my teeth and was able to finish it, but the entire game fell flat for me. Wouldn't personally recommend it.
  18. BreezyBadger
    Mar 28, 2021
    4
    This isn't a sequel to DOOM 2016. If it wasn't called DOOM, then it wouldn't get a bad review. They should of called it Single Player MOBA Boomer Shooter: Wait for Cool-downs and farm trash mobs. I'm serious: the most important part of this game is farming weak monsters for health, ammo and armour. They infused the razor sharp core DOOM game-play, of: dodge, shoot and murder, withThis isn't a sequel to DOOM 2016. If it wasn't called DOOM, then it wouldn't get a bad review. They should of called it Single Player MOBA Boomer Shooter: Wait for Cool-downs and farm trash mobs. I'm serious: the most important part of this game is farming weak monsters for health, ammo and armour. They infused the razor sharp core DOOM game-play, of: dodge, shoot and murder, with pointless accounting. Every single mechanic that was added to this game that wasn't already there in DOOM 2016 is basically cool-down dependent tedium that just gets in the way. This is like DOOM 2016 if the DOOM slayer had to periodically take a break from killing a mancubus to do his taxes, take a piss, flame then chainsaw imp for ammo and armor, punch a random zombie for health, and then go back and do a bit more damage to the mancubus before running out of ammo. And then having to repeating the tedium all over again. The DOOM slayer can't just feed the ugly bastard a steady stream a missiles until it pops, like the in the good old days. No. First, shoot the fist guns, on each hand, because those are the first 2 "weak spots", then you can finish it off. Do it any other way and you run out of ammo, because all other parts of the body, other than the arbitrary weak spot, take almost no damage before the weak spot "check-boxes" are ticked off. This applies to all "big" monsters.

    DOOM 2016 gave you a problem, a box of tools, and then let you decide how to best murder everything. DOOM Eternal gives you a problem, a rusted, barely functional, set of tools, and a very rigid and convoluted procedure to follow. Try and use the tools any other way than for the intended "problem" (weak spot) and you realise your weapons are actually dollar-store water guns that shoot piss and glowing dog turds.

    There had to be better ways of raising the skill ceiling of the game without the boring MOBA cool-downs, and redundant rock-paper-scissors.    … Expand
  19. Bazdmeg
    Aug 16, 2021
    4
    I do not consider justified this score, the game is terribly difficult, very bad restored the difficulty.
    Whoever accents of torturing himself its a good game to add. Also, the game is very crowded, full of unnecessary things, even weaker than doom 2016.
  20. RomulKing
    Apr 26, 2021
    4
    Прошел всю игру, но вот относительно ожиданий и относительно Doom (2016) больше все-таки разочарован. Да, графика шикарная, да, хорошая оптимизация/fps, но:
    1. Страшно переборщили с впихиванием похоже всех механик, которые только придумали - в итоге вместо шутера получается какая-то real-time стреляющая стратега с постоянным задействованием кучи не стреляющих/отвлекающих механик -    Прошел всю игру, но вот относительно ожиданий и относительно Doom (2016) больше все-таки разочарован. Да, графика шикарная, да, хорошая оптимизация/fps, но:
    1. Страшно переборщили с впихиванием похоже всех механик, которые только придумали - в итоге вместо шутера получается какая-то real-time стреляющая стратега с постоянным задействованием кучи не стреляющих/отвлекающих механик - добывание боеприпасов бензопилой, здоровья рукопашной, брони огнем, и т.п. + все это надо постоянно помнить и использовать (может кроме брони)
    2. Очень аркадное изображения всего - цветастые боеприпасы, мигающие разноцветными огнями монстры - вообщем какой-то супер марио, а не брутальный Doom
    3. Перебор с платформер-механиками - просто как кузнечик прыгаешь пол игры. Опять просто супер-марио, а не Doom.
    4. Бои - месиво, на экране каша - очень много монстров со всех сторон, в итоге все время бегаешь как сумасшедший. Не сконцентрироваться нормально на каком-то поединке хотя бы даже с группой монстров, все равно сзади кто-нибудь по мелкому или крупному мочит - уровни специально так сделаны как мультиплейерные.
    5. Еще раз - для шутера - переборщили со всем, что мешает наслаждаться боем - лутом боеприпасов, и здоровья (отвлекающим от боя), платформер прыжками, аркадным оформлением, кашей на экране от количества монстров и т.п.
    В итоге дополнение Ancient Gods покупать не буду.    … Expand
  21. Avadon
    Mar 20, 2020
    3
    Incredibly disappointing sequel. Combat pacing feels mangled as you have to constantly glory kill and chainsaw kill due to the low ammo capacity. It's no longer a fun way to replenish the ammo of your favourite weapon because you overused it a bit in the last arena, no, you have to constantly do it to stay alive. The aesthetic also feels way off. The UI is horrendous in many differentIncredibly disappointing sequel. Combat pacing feels mangled as you have to constantly glory kill and chainsaw kill due to the low ammo capacity. It's no longer a fun way to replenish the ammo of your favourite weapon because you overused it a bit in the last arena, no, you have to constantly do it to stay alive. The aesthetic also feels way off. The UI is horrendous in many different ways, and the graphics frequently look washed out and cartoony. I also really hate the enemy weakness system they have in place. Certain enemies are weak to a specific weapon, or rather weapon upgrade, if used in a specific way. Unfortunately this doesn't give you a minor advantage, it turns them into bullet sponges if you don't kill them exactly the way the game wants you to. This is not how Doom should work. Enemies should be weak to the way you move, not the weapon upgrade that you use. In this case, instead of keeping your rhythm up, the game forces you to just fiddle with your weapon selection ALL the time. Add to the above an abundance of tedious platforming and the facepalm-worthy excuse for a "story" and you get a very mediocre, frequently annoying shooter that scores even lower due to the shoes it has to fill. Skip it.… Expand
  22. Kunstbanause
    Mar 24, 2020
    3
    No VR, no buy. Are the developers even trying? Their tiny heads must be stuck in the 90s, listening to metal all day seems to boil the little brain cells they have left.
  23. Nerves82
    Mar 20, 2020
    3
    I am so disappointed by this game. It is dull. All the sharpness that was introduced in 2016 is just lacking here. I have no interested in playing a shooter where you are note given ammo to shot with. Everything about this game is just lame.
  24. SerJonSnow
    Mar 23, 2020
    3
    Doom Eternal is basically Doom (2016) again but with more tedious platforming and without the ability to play how you want. You're forced to constantly switch weapons and mash melee attacks to ensure you have enough ammo and health to scrape by.
  25. kingofkoopas
    Mar 27, 2020
    3
    I had mixed feelings playing throughout the game. I finally beat it last night and I could not wait to get this over with. The last two hours of this game were some of the most boring, repetitive and tedious things I have ever had to do. This game is like playing Overwatch but in single player. So after an hour or so my brain would start to get really tired. It's an awful feeling when aI had mixed feelings playing throughout the game. I finally beat it last night and I could not wait to get this over with. The last two hours of this game were some of the most boring, repetitive and tedious things I have ever had to do. This game is like playing Overwatch but in single player. So after an hour or so my brain would start to get really tired. It's an awful feeling when a game does that, DIUM E is not the only one, but it really did it for me almost every time. Towards the last hours, even Overwatch seemed in slow motion compared to this, and that is not a good thing.

    Then there is the dreaded Marauder. This thing is a pain to deal with. It seems quite unfair to deal with something so frustrating. There is hard, and then there is tedious, this here is the latter. I started the game on Nightmare and was ready to quit within the first hour. I had just finished DOOM 2016 on nightmare so I figured I'd do the same on this one. I got as far the first boss on insane and could not do it. I turned on the sentinel armor and then switched to Ultra Violence right after that. The last boss is one of the worst things I have ever seen. Like most bosses in games, they usually have baddies to help them. I think we all hate when you fight a boss in any game and it isn't a 1v1 between you and the boss. As soon as you see enemies spawning in the room with you, you know it's going to get difficult. Well in this game you are fighting the boss and the insanely difficult latter mobs. You have to engage them all, because if you don't, you're going to die quickly. You need them for health, ammo and armor. You can't just ignore them as you would in many other games.

    My brain is tired from playing a game! I wish I had not submitted my poor noodle to this madness. I think that someone at 'id' got too trigger happy with making it insanely difficult. Then they realized what a horrible mess they had created. The biggest evidence for this is that the game allows you to cheat in any boss fight by using sentinel armor. Even games like Sekiro don't allow such nonsense. Clearly something went horrendously wrong with this game. Maybe it's the asinine difficulty, maybe it's that your brain gets worked to insane degrees, maybe it's that the game forces you to engage every single enemy, maybe it's that the game almost forces you to use every single bullet from every single gun.

    I really liked the multiplayer however, it's fresh and fun. Oh and one last thing, I wish they had not gone "cinematic" with the story line here. The demons no longer feel like demons at all, they're just stupid aliens now. I was hoping for something a little more sinister and not this overly bright and cutesy campaign.    … Expand
  26. Figaro79
    Mar 20, 2020
    3
    Doom Shadow Legends. Stupid level design, stupid plot. Whole game stupid trash.
  27. kindlerob
    Sep 8, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Doom E starts off quite good but becomes tiring & tedious very quickly. I will just say now that Doom was a hard act to follow. It had an addictive balance like no other. The balance is not here at all. It's harder, faster, longer, less atmospheric, & even the story is an over-bloated mess of Cult-clichés. Once the upgrades are out the way, & you have another second half a game to wade through in precisely the same manner as the first, it becomes frustratingly frenetic. Every level is far too long, battles always involve waves of many enemies which increases predictably each time, & the weapons are set to kill particular enemies is particular ways. If you do not kill them in the way the Developer has premeditated; you die quicker. This takes away all the fun of the original - where every gun was an over-powered cannon of devastation.

    The Devs seem to think that Challenge, equals, enjoyment. Even on Easy, it is a frantic mess, where everything bombards you if you stop moving, & by getting stuck on any of the surroundings results in your demise. This makes for a game, not of skill, but of luck.

    The graphics: are large, colourful, & detailed. Probably what they concentrated on the most. Yet the touch-screens & on-screen data pads have once again reverted to squint-inducing thumbnails. The Guns & pickups are bright & treat you like an idiot. (The first game did it better!) The environments are nice when bright & open, but soon revert to corridors, alcoves & lift-shafts. Many don't feel like Doom in any sense, because all of the Religious ramifications they see fit to shove down our throats constantly.

    The Story:
    It's daft! Call me simple! But Doom guy always seemed like a modest soldier down on his luck; sticking UP for his species, to me. A guy so neglected by society & Military hierarchy, he didn't even have a name. He busted out of confinement, got himself a gun, & had no alternative but to become a badass to defend his outpost! Now, they want to turn him into another ‘Dr Who’ Jesus Christ saviour figure. It takes away ALL your intrigue; knowing that everything you do has been ordained & is your destiny. I don’t want to play in this universe anymore. It’s stuffy, irrational, superstitious, & ostentatious. It totally bogs the game down for the sake of trying to make sense of a totally implausible situation. Just because you CAN achieve something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it. If you are in control of your skill & technique, you are thus liberated from it. But here, the technique is in control of the game’s structure.

    The Audio is a mixed bag. Some sounds are an improvement such as the Aslt Rifle, whereas the Ballista is so underwhelming that you hardly notice it upon releasing the trigger! You knew when The Gauss Cannon fired! BOOM! The music is a disaster. A total calamity. There is no quality control. There are a few standout tracks in the game that are indeed very good, if strictly suited to this universe of carnage! But apart from the fact they are truncated, they are all re-engineered & mixed badly – fatiguing you, due to the Loudness Compression of already loud music. There are times where I had no alternative but to turn off the music in the options menu! Repeating a single phrase over & over offers nothing creative & is an insult to all those composers who over-composed to fit every possible situation.
    There are a lot of tracks which seem to be more ‘sound fx’ than music. These grate on you so bad, it just sours the experience. I liked the energy in more aggressive tracks during combat, because it makes sense. But when you are just trying to wade through all the mundane jumping routes, you just want something mellifluous & expansive.

    Although I completed this game, I have no desire to return. A strange reaction, considering the original had the opposite effect & kept me coming back for another playthrough. There is just so much wrong with how this game was built, that it begs the question of competence. The entire game is now segregated & laid out into wave-bars in the top right hand corner – letting you know exactly how far you are, how many more waves, unique areas, etc. you have left; removing any connection to the world, & to the discovery. It tells you right at the start! Doom2016 felt like a journey, with exploration, & a narrative being created as you progress.
    It reminds me of Gears of War Judgement – where they forced the Wave system into the main story campaign. You’d be constantly concentrating on perfect scores, head shots, & other pointless gimmicks when I should just be enjoying the experience. DoomE is exactly the same. You’ll get to the end of a typically protracted level, just to be faced with a “You SUCK!” score board of missed secrets, failed challenges, incomplete waves, & “The Princess is in Another Castle”.    … Expand
  28. TWERQEN
    Mar 20, 2020
    3
    pros:
    automap looks cool, no-drm on day 1, great tool if you want to feel like you got monochromacy sight.
    Cons:
    Everything's brown or brownish-red color, weapons feels weak, constant interruptions in form of pop-up messages or cut-scenes.
    i guess it's cool if you never played anything outside of doom 2016.
  29. Tawarus
    Mar 26, 2020
    3
    I don't like it. I love DOOM 2016, but this is Super Mario with shotgun. First two hours i was heavyly bored. No action, so much chanted music was heard only occasionally and jumping like a Super Mario, constantly out of ammo ... This is not doom feeling, lot off ammo loved gun an constantly action this i looking in DOOM game.
  30. ZeroNova
    Mar 25, 2020
    3
    Doom (2016) is quality over quantity, while Doom Eternal is the opposite.

    First off, I will say that I played through the whole game on the Nightmare setting, just so people won't dismiss my review for not having played enough of the game (I'm at 45h as of now). While the single player campaign is pretty fun, a lot of it seems very out-of-place for a Doom game. I'm mostly talking    Doom (2016) is quality over quantity, while Doom Eternal is the opposite.

    First off, I will say that I played through the whole game on the Nightmare setting, just so people won't dismiss my review for not having played enough of the game (I'm at 45h as of now).

    While the single player campaign is pretty fun, a lot of it seems very out-of-place for a Doom game. I'm mostly talking about the various things included in the platforming sections. Some of the milestones are also not working, and the multiplayer has a lot of issues, plus there's only one mode, which is asymetric and has one slayer against two demons.

    I'm also not a fan of this whole "season" thing where you need to earn enough XP during a specific time frame in order to unlock various aestethetical items such as weapon/slayer skins and multiplayer icons/titles.

    Anyway, I would probably rate Doom Eternal 5 if the multiplayer got fixed, and they remedied the various other issues such as the milestones, and possibly slightly higher if they got rid of the "season" part and added a DM/TDM online mode.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 61 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 61
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  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jul 22, 2020
    80
    The murderous amok simulator returns and is even more furious than before. Fantastic presentation and great fighting system are harmed only by annoying platforming sequences. [Issue#302]
  2. PCMag
    May 1, 2020
    90
    If you're looking for a deep and thought-provoking gaming experience that changes your outlook on life, look elsewhere. However, if you want a fast-paced, visceral shooter full of non-stop action and outrageous violence, you can't do better than Doom Eternal. If you liked 2016's offering you will love this follow up. It's a hell of a good time.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Apr 19, 2020
    77
    Like Jason Statham’s character in Crank, Doom Eternal needs adrenaline every waking second. So long as you drown hordes of demons in their own blood, it feels like a perfect GOTY contender, but during quiet moments, Doom Eternal withers and forces you to ponder unpleasant questions. id Software needs to course-correct, otherwise we’ll be playing Super Doom Slayer’s Bros in a few years.
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