DOOM

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  1. dreadcannibal
    May 13, 2016
    4
    Welcome to doom 2016, a game with a bit more than decent artstyle and a very reptitive gameplay.
    I'll point out some general things:
    1.repetition - the game is painfully repetitive. you'd be doing the same things over and over again more than you asked for too much too early. 2.plot - As you would expect, the story is there just as an excuse for the game to have some story. nothing    Welcome to doom 2016, a game with a bit more than decent artstyle and a very reptitive gameplay.
    I'll point out some general things:

    1.repetition - the game is painfully repetitive. you'd be doing the same things over and over again more than you asked for too much too early.

    2.plot - As you would expect, the story is there just as an excuse for the game to have some story. nothing really interesting about the plot.

    3.artstyle - the artstyle is almost great and fits to doom's hellish theme, although when you kill demons they drop candy crush items which bugged me

    4.cashgrab - as soon as you click on the multiplayer mod you'd get an ad on the menu to buy more stuff for you experience.

    5.graphics - overall nice looking game with everything on ultra but even then you'd notice low res textures.

    6.sound - almost good but not quite there in my personal opinion.

    overall its a decent game but wasn't my cup of tea. I sent a refund request.    … Expand
  2. SophinoXc
    May 13, 2016
    0
    In desperate need of an update. This game seems to really despise running well. Frequent crashes, horrible frames per second and most of the time it doesn't even load. I have tried everything to get it working and it never works. I have much bigger games on my PC but this one doesn't even want to live.
  3. Namelesshonor
    May 13, 2016
    0
    Not on the same level as Doom 3 or Resurrection of Evil. This is just a mindless, overly-fast-paced "dude bro" style shooter. If running around and breezing through enemies is your thing, you'll love this garbage. If you liked the survival horror style of things that Doom 3 provided, then you will be extremely let down by this game.

    I had been waiting so long for a Doom 4. I was so    Not on the same level as Doom 3 or Resurrection of Evil. This is just a mindless, overly-fast-paced "dude bro" style shooter. If running around and breezing through enemies is your thing, you'll love this garbage. If you liked the survival horror style of things that Doom 3 provided, then you will be extremely let down by this game.

    I had been waiting so long for a Doom 4. I was so excited. What a letdown. :(    … Expand
  4. quakke
    May 14, 2016
    0
    And here we go again.. that time of year that the new big triple a game comes.

    The game is not Doom, that's to start things out. You start the game and it's all about linear maps with extreme amount of handholding. You get a scripted scene for every little thing in this game. Pickup a new weapon and the game showcases you the gun for like 5 seconds until you can move again, you open a    And here we go again.. that time of year that the new big triple a game comes.

    The game is not Doom, that's to start things out. You start the game and it's all about linear maps with extreme amount of handholding. You get a scripted scene for every little thing in this game. Pickup a new weapon and the game showcases you the gun for like 5 seconds until you can move again, you open a door and you watch a scripted animation of the player opening the door and ofc while this all is happening, you can't do anything :/
    There are perks too, yes guys you get perks which give you ability to know where all secrets are etc and most of the pickups come only through glorykilling and thus game forces you to glorykill. Forexample
    ammo is ridiciolously low (20 max for shotgun) and this forces the player to use glorykill system to get more ammo. You can't fail in this game since the AI enemies are dead stupid and just stand still when you shoot them. You have a locked door in your face and the keycard is "hidden" right 100 meters next to it in a oneway cave. Seriously?

    Yes, it's a console game through and thoroughly. So I can't recommend this under any circumstances since it's not a Doom game and most definitely not a PC game either. 0/10    … Expand
  5. silentsurvivor
    May 15, 2016
    0
    The most boring FPS in a long while. The action is too far between all the puzzles and platform jumping. When I do encounter monsters they are indistinguishable with each other and ridiculously easy to kill. Weapons feel too weak.
  6. FurgsonTurd9
    Dec 21, 2021
    4
    This game was always overrated and massively overhyped. Very bland and mind numbing game.
  7. bestreviews2020
    Nov 13, 2020
    2
    Just came here to say, here's my negative review for this awful game............
  8. PowerGamer
    May 6, 2017
    4
    Doom by name only, I'm old enough to remember the original Doom.
    It was phenomenal for it's time.
    This mess hardly compares at all. Obviously none of the talent behind the original had anything to do with this version. The original Doom was not about achievements or DLCs, the game play enough was what made it fun. It was also mostly a closed kind of tunnel'ish game where you didn't    Doom by name only, I'm old enough to remember the original Doom.
    It was phenomenal for it's time.
    This mess hardly compares at all. Obviously none of the talent behind the original had anything to do with this version.

    The original Doom was not about achievements or DLCs, the game play enough was what made it fun. It was also mostly a closed kind of tunnel'ish game where you didn't know what was going to be around the next corner. This version is more about large often outdoors areas.

    Then there is the multi-player. That is if you can find someone else to play with. Here about a year later from release and the the server(s) are pretty much dead.
    Also in the original Doom there was no concept of level. Here you are everyone's **** until you play up in levels because the level 50 people will stomp you. In the original you could just jump right in on an equal footing and it was your skill that made the difference.

    It's too bad John Ramero and John Carmack have long since left Id where they could have made a proper remake..

    I'm glad I bought at the bargain bin price..    … Expand
  9. nonaste
    Nov 27, 2016
    4
    What a bitter disappointment. I deleted the damned game half way through. ID claims they went back to the Doom roots. Bah! I played the original Doom 23 years ago and replayed it years later. Lousy graphics but a great game, for a mindless shooter. Way back I thought Serious Sam was mindless fun. But 23 years later I grew up. This game is a pile of dreck, a waste of time andWhat a bitter disappointment. I deleted the damned game half way through. ID claims they went back to the Doom roots. Bah! I played the original Doom 23 years ago and replayed it years later. Lousy graphics but a great game, for a mindless shooter. Way back I thought Serious Sam was mindless fun. But 23 years later I grew up. This game is a pile of dreck, a waste of time and money. Al you do is run and gun, with a lot of tedious annoying jumping unto and off of platforms.

    The save system absolutely sucks with checkpoints instead of quick saves and reloads and hard saves, This can be very exasperating when you are engaged in a difficult part requiring perfect jumps and numerous enemies with distant checkpoints forcing you waaaay back to the previous checkpoint and starting all over. That was the final straw that caused me to joyfully dump this turkey into the trash can.

    I loved Doom 3, Resurrection of Evil and Doom BFG. Very nice combinations of horror and FPS. ID should have stuck to that and improved on it but no, they came up with this borefest. Along with that stupid game, Rage, Doom 2016 will be another game I will never bother to play again. At least I finished Rage.    … Expand
  10. MaxGamer
    Jun 15, 2019
    3
    I actually tried to like this game and I have been following Doom from its first release back in the day. It was a novelty because of the 3D settings that most games back then didn't have.

    At present, I find Doom 2016 very repetitive and gets more boring as it progresses. Altough the monster models are a higher detailed remake of the usual Doom monsters, the over all graphical quality    I actually tried to like this game and I have been following Doom from its first release back in the day. It was a novelty because of the 3D settings that most games back then didn't have.

    At present, I find Doom 2016 very repetitive and gets more boring as it progresses. Altough the monster models are a higher detailed remake of the usual Doom monsters, the over all graphical quality of everything having a red hue makes the game visual sub par.

    Its your basic run and gun with very little story. Its like the devs feel that there is no need for a story because the fan base already knows what to do. Mars has been invaded by demons, go kill them and get the station working again.

    I have reinstalled this game twice and just can't get into it. I didn't finish it the first time and probably won't this time. Sorry devs, I won't be buying the iteration.    … Expand
  11. TWERQEN
    Jul 17, 2019
    3
    The blandest game i saw in years since modern-military shooter craze started to fade-away. I know it's not really fair to compare this one to the original, but what the hell, they slapped the title on the game. The Ultimate Doom (Hate it that i need to call it this way to differentiate now) is a product of combining all of the geek culture into one dark sci-fi fantasy, on the other hand,The blandest game i saw in years since modern-military shooter craze started to fade-away. I know it's not really fair to compare this one to the original, but what the hell, they slapped the title on the game. The Ultimate Doom (Hate it that i need to call it this way to differentiate now) is a product of combining all of the geek culture into one dark sci-fi fantasy, on the other hand, 2016-version is just selling us the cultural idea of this distant game that grabbed all the popularity back in the 90's. Yeah remember doom guy? He's cool, he can shoot stuff, but also can do a fist-bump with i miniature version of himself, isn't that cool? That's just pathetic.
    Anyway, what's the deal with qte-style finishers? Whole game is based on them, so you need to go out of your way to avoid them. And this is just sad that we got perfectly fine wolfenstien soft-reboot prior to this game. And it's really weird how every other fps published by Bethesda is at least ok, even the new quake champions.
    So in conclusion, i don't get all the hype at all, even 3 years later.    … Expand
  12. markogera
    May 27, 2016
    3
    It is simply not that fun. Currently no sli or crossfire, even tho it runs fast on one gpu. This is because the graphics are not that good. The original doom is still more fun than this.
  13. Digital_Kitchen
    Jul 28, 2016
    1
    The gameplay is some of the best in years. Unfortunately, they have the most awful save system that I have ever seen in a game... DRM for your save files. And they can get corrupt. Completely lost ALL of my progress due to the files becoming corrupt.

    And seriously, why do they need 30 files to save one single player campaign?!
  14. Jeek
    Aug 8, 2016
    4
    Gameplay is great, but destroying wave after wave of monsters without proper story and cutscenes , just wasn't for me. Played till mission 6 and got bored of grinding.

    DOOM is good game if you enjoy great gameplay and shooting monsters almost all the time, but don't expect to get any kind of story.
  15. prince_warhero
    Jul 29, 2016
    3
    Dono what people like in this game.. One of the most boring games of the year... why ?
    Its just run+shoot+press F repetition simulator. Enemies are just everywhere and same, u just run meaninglessly from room to room and shoot thats all.. Story is non-existent .. felt soo much boring to keep doing same thing again and again...
    only good thing is graphics, weapon design. stay away if u    Dono what people like in this game.. One of the most boring games of the year... why ?
    Its just run+shoot+press F repetition simulator. Enemies are just everywhere and same, u just run meaninglessly from room to room and shoot thats all.. Story is non-existent .. felt soo much boring to keep doing same thing again and again...

    only good thing is graphics, weapon design. stay away if u want variety in gameplay.    … Expand
  16. Deadraque
    Dec 21, 2016
    3
    The designers seem must be colorblind only using 3 colors in the game, Red, Yellow, grey (that's about it) If you are lucky you will be able to discover a bit of green and very rare Blue.... (they should make an achievement for it: "Saw blue color" yeayh...)

    This game has nothing to do with doom, it looks like a hyperventilated and bad designed levels Game. What is that about the    The designers seem must be colorblind only using 3 colors in the game, Red, Yellow, grey (that's about it) If you are lucky you will be able to discover a bit of green and very rare Blue.... (they should make an achievement for it: "Saw blue color" yeayh...)

    This game has nothing to do with doom, it looks like a hyperventilated and bad designed levels Game.
    What is that about the locked doors and need to survive each time until everything is dead than opens up... That's not what doom 1, 2 was about. Then those melee fights to get life... pffff I don't get it. Weapons feel flat no reloads because yeah you know it's a button to much for the kids let's just auto reload when walking over ammo... just take the shotgun it is so far of the feeling it has from doom 1,2, duke nukem or even Serious Sam.

    Seems like those who love the game that so much actually are not from the older times where we played 100's of hours playing doom and especially doom 2. How many times I had a jump inside those was incredible as it was never expected... here you know it's gone be full until everything is erased and move on...so boring.

    Even Doom 3 feels better than this OVERRATED crap.    … Expand
  17. 10001110101
    Nov 7, 2017
    3
    What a letdown this game is. Doom and Doom 2 were masterpieces that revolutionized gaming, and for good reason: top-notch graphics and sound, revolutionary new tech, a terrifying and immersive game experience, and lots of replay value. You'll find none of that in the 2016 Doom. The formula: wander around aimlessly for awhile until you accidentally find yourself in a new area, get lockedWhat a letdown this game is. Doom and Doom 2 were masterpieces that revolutionized gaming, and for good reason: top-notch graphics and sound, revolutionary new tech, a terrifying and immersive game experience, and lots of replay value. You'll find none of that in the 2016 Doom. The formula: wander around aimlessly for awhile until you accidentally find yourself in a new area, get locked into an arena-style room that you can't escape until you kill all the monsters. Repeat, repeat again, and just keep repeating over and over and over.

    The gameplay is kinda like Painkiller, only more generic. The graphics are okay, but there are some pretty low-res textures in here that look like something from 10 years ago. The environments are static and noninteractive. The music is generic tech-metal stuff that's completely forgettable. Could they have not used even one track from the original? The game's atmosphere and setting are cheesy and overwrought, nothing like the true terror that the originals and even Doom 3 managed to evoke. It's almost like it's an unfunny joke version of Doom, I mean Painkiller, I mean Smash TV, I mean generic crap that seems to copy the core elements of their gameplay yet falls far short of being anywhere near as fun as those games.

    Oh, I hope you like jumping puzzles. Yes, an FPS with jumping puzzles. This idea sucked in Turok, 20 years ago, and it sucks just as bad, if not worse, in Doom. Instead of allowing you to save whenever you want like in every other Doom game, you get a checkpoint system. Really? The difficulty is highly inconsistent. Some battles are just a breeze, then others are irritatingly drawn out too hard. I didn't try it on the lower difficulty settings, since it would mostly be too easy, but the higher settings are where you run into this inconsistency.

    The multiplayer is bland and lackluster. It's nowhere near as good as Unreal Tournament (any version, take your pick) or Quake 3. I'd rather play Battlefield or Call of Duty, and that's not saying much since that style of gameplay has been done to death, but then so has Doom's. It was cool in Serious Sam, but somehow Doom manages to miss even that mark.

    What a letdown.    … Expand
  18. Dubsys
    Jun 10, 2016
    3
    Don't get your hopes up for the multiplayer, it's a joke and absolutely awful, at least the single player is a reasonably pleasant experience. not that that means much.
  19. jonnyh
    May 17, 2016
    3
    The problem with DOOM multiplayer is that the game was designed for controller-use and not keyboard and mouse. The limitations of controller input have, over time, made shooter gaming on console a certain way. It features slow-speed, simplistic double-jumps rather than high skill strafejumping, weapon load-outs, no weapon drops, crouch toggling, a progression system where you can actuallyThe problem with DOOM multiplayer is that the game was designed for controller-use and not keyboard and mouse. The limitations of controller input have, over time, made shooter gaming on console a certain way. It features slow-speed, simplistic double-jumps rather than high skill strafejumping, weapon load-outs, no weapon drops, crouch toggling, a progression system where you can actually get better with unlocks over time, damage numbers popping up, scripted melee executions, a weak rocket launcher, paid map-packs/seasons pass DLC.. These are the elements of simplistic console gamer world, akin to the low-skill environment the TV+Console+Controller gamer plays within.

    So in reality, what happened is that id software, once a PC first company, has in fact become a PC second company - and that's because there is more money to be made from casuals than from the hardcore. This is okay right? - I mean Bungie does it, EA does it, Activision does it.. but Id Software was the grand daddy of them all - revered for its unabashed persistence in delivering PC-focused titles since they gave birth to the entire genre on PC in the 90's. The issue many of us have is that Id Software sold out. They lost all the creative minds that were unafraid to be non-committal with shipping dates so they could get the game out how they liked it, they were unafraid to make games that wouldn't appeal to the XBOX/Playstation kids, because they weren't making games for huge sums of profit so much as making games for the love of the game. We all took pride in that. We all understood the superiority of mouse-input over controller input and what it allowed us to achieve in game. If you pitted the very best players of console against even average players on the PC they would be bathing in the blood of console gamers.The disparity is real.

    We didn't want Id Software to capitulate, to pander and change their core from PC to Console, but they did - and they didn't even bother to give us a PC version that differed in any way to the console version. It's simply ported over with some advanced graphical settings. The entire online experience plays like Halo - and I have categorically zero interest in playing a casual console shooter on my PC. If you want to look to a AAA title in the shooter department that satisfies PC gamers, it's not DOOM, it's Overwatch.

    A former devoted id worshiper and life-long fan    … Expand
  20. TemplarGR
    Sep 13, 2016
    0
    It is a nice tech demo for Vulkan, and not much more. It runs great at max settings. But the graphics didn't impress me much.

    The single player campaign is a borefest. You just follow the corridor, shoot generic enemies, and press F to finish them and get health and ammo. Repeat until the end. No story, minimal cutscenes, braindead enemy AI, and no freedom of exploration besides some    It is a nice tech demo for Vulkan, and not much more. It runs great at max settings. But the graphics didn't impress me much.

    The single player campaign is a borefest. You just follow the corridor, shoot generic enemies, and press F to finish them and get health and ammo. Repeat until the end. No story, minimal cutscenes, braindead enemy AI, and no freedom of exploration besides some "secret areas" for more ammo hp and armor. You will be bored very early in the game, unless Doom is your first FPS game ever.

    Multiplayer is nothing special, and will be forgotten soon.

    Overall, not worth it at full price.    … Expand
  21. JackKnowles
    Nov 14, 2018
    2
    Generic, repetitive, boring sum up this game nicely. Level design is bland and uninspired, and the gunplay is very mediocre. It also feels like a Quake game and not a genuine Doom game, only the soundtrack feels Doom-ish, everything else is pretty alien. I guess you could enjoy this game if you're into mindless, over the top shooters with platform hopping elements. And for everyone elseGeneric, repetitive, boring sum up this game nicely. Level design is bland and uninspired, and the gunplay is very mediocre. It also feels like a Quake game and not a genuine Doom game, only the soundtrack feels Doom-ish, everything else is pretty alien. I guess you could enjoy this game if you're into mindless, over the top shooters with platform hopping elements. And for everyone else this game just isn't cutting it. It runs very well on Vulkan, though.… Expand
  22. leaveit
    Aug 5, 2016
    3
    The single player is essentially Brutal Doom but worse, and the multiplayer is Halo. I did not finish the single player campaign - I'm around the Cyberdemon, I guess. I will probably never finish the single player campaign because I am so bored of it. At least they got the game out.
  23. roten
    Apr 30, 2022
    0
    this product is not available in your region
    "games out of politics" right?
  24. Tomboski
    Jun 28, 2016
    0
    No quick-save option, no on-screen mini-map, felt like I was playing a game that was meant for a console that was meant for an arcade that was meant for an Atari... in the year of our lord 2016? Go to hell, "Wolfenstein-with-demons-instead-of-Nazis". Put some textures on dat b*tch!
  25. eelegendo
    Jun 15, 2016
    2
    Tried the demo. Everything was fine until the minute I died. Because then I had start over the last 10 mins... WTF? No free saving? No F5? Everything is retro, but there are CHECKPOINTS? Why not QTEs? The biggest flop this year.
  26. djball
    May 18, 2016
    2
    Painfully boring, dumb as a bag of rocks, repetitive mindless shooter. Ok nice graphics, tight controls. Doom is the state of our planet right now, not a game.
  27. Zipfer
    Sep 22, 2018
    1
    Worst game ever. 2k18 checkpoints. You just kill monster die if you jump wrong side. And walking walking walking.
    I don't understand why people like this.
    I playd many indie games and always I can find something interesting but here I don't see anything to love this game.
    Just overhype game
  28. ch3ng
    May 17, 2016
    4
    I think this will be the first doom which I will not play. Some of the reasons
    - Monsters are REALLY slow, even in the hardest difficulty
    - Double jump... Really??? - Super Shotgun looks and feels like a toy, just like the rest of the weapons - Looks like Quake - Runes, improve weapons, etc?!? that's not doom - 0 Suspense and stupid music - I've not seen more than 15 monsters    I think this will be the first doom which I will not play. Some of the reasons
    - Monsters are REALLY slow, even in the hardest difficulty
    - Double jump... Really???
    - Super Shotgun looks and feels like a toy, just like the rest of the weapons
    - Looks like Quake
    - Runes, improve weapons, etc?!? that's not doom
    - 0 Suspense and stupid music
    - I've not seen more than 15 monsters together. In older Doom there are maps whit 1000 or more monsters togheter (why companies don't learn of users creations?!)
    - Fatalities? Really? This is not Mortal Kombat
    - Is too EASY and Short
    - Repetitive
    - And many more reasons

    I can understand that many people like it (in fact, it will be a good game if is name wasn't doom. Maybe Quake was a better name). But for a person who has been playing Doom since 3 years old, this is an insult just like Doom3 or even worse.    … Expand
  29. drunkblackstar
    May 21, 2016
    4
    It's plain, it's boring, it's monotonous.

    The game looks like poor Japanese cartoon, badly designed and badly shaped.

    In the end it's the same as Quake 3 with almost comparable graphics. Don't recomend it to anybody except children under 12 years old.
  30. Gadlajk
    Mar 22, 2020
    0
    "All you do is paa pew baam boom! What's the point? It's waste of time!" is what my father used to say about shooters when I was a kid and I would always have argument about there being more than that but if he said that for this game I'd have to agree because DOOM 2016 is just another mind-numbing title in DOOM series.
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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 44 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 44
  3. Negative: 0 out of 44
  1. Games Master UK
    Jul 25, 2016
    90
    Meaty multiplayer and a campaign that plays like a sustained electric shock. Eye wateringly fun. [July 2016, p.60]
  2. CD-Action
    Jul 21, 2016
    90
    If you miss Doom, you miss what I anticipate to be one of two most important first person shooters of 2016. The classic returns in great shape, with all its vital elements intact. Give the campaign some time to pick up speed and it will pump your veins full of adrenaline. [07/2016, p.38]
  3. PC PowerPlay
    Jul 6, 2016
    60
    A tribute to Doom that leaps to great heights, but fails to fully stick the landing. [Issue#252, p.60]
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