DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part One

 PlayStation 4
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7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 78 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 78
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 78
  3. Negative: 19 out of 78

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  1. nburroughs10
    Oct 24, 2020
    6
    For DLC it is anything but weak but yet it is exhausting. Doom Eternal really puts the eternal into the game. The endless hordes and your doomguy dying a thousands times gives it a never ending feeling. Good ending to part one but felt like I might need a new controller by the end of the game.
  2. Antek
    Oct 24, 2020
    5
    Loved the base game, finished it few times. Was waiting eagerly for this continuation.
    Now that I've finally touched it, I'm truly disappointed. It proposes a minimal content maximally packed with the endless waves of the same old enemies, which quickly becomes rather exhausting than fun.
    Overall feels like a cheap quantity over quality product.
  3. amer-jh
    Jun 20, 2021
    6
    Doom Eternal base game I a 9 o 9.5. This is 6. it is excessive difficult in an artificial way. They just throw at you lot of super demons waves in small arenas time and time again. Not exploration at all, basically DLC feels cheaper that base game and boring as a chore sometimes. Scenarios are not well designed, they are just interconnected arenas where some ones are really excessiveDoom Eternal base game I a 9 o 9.5. This is 6. it is excessive difficult in an artificial way. They just throw at you lot of super demons waves in small arenas time and time again. Not exploration at all, basically DLC feels cheaper that base game and boring as a chore sometimes. Scenarios are not well designed, they are just interconnected arenas where some ones are really excessive difficult in a bad way, just imagine they put you in a small arena with not too much room or option to run away and they toss you waves of demons at you face where basically you run out of option because they are a lot and hit you at the same time, game is overwhelming and you die in unfair ways several times until in one chance you pass, but not out of you skills but a mix of skills and “lucky”, checkpoints are also scarce to stretch the duration of the game artificially. All in all, cheap difficulty , think of completely the opposite to Dark Souls difficulty. Totally regret I bought the DLC. Doom Eternal base game is awesome but Ancient Gods idéela just like a cheap designed game, it is like Mercenaries mode in Resident Evil in highest difficulty level, that’s all it is when you remove the story from the equation.… Expand
  4. Tom_Shepherd
    Mar 15, 2021
    6
    I did not enjoyed this at all. Production quality is perfect so thats why the over average score.
    Music: instead of the metal a techno like electronic pump goes during 85÷ of the fights, frustrates the absolute crap out of me. I have tuned down the music to 20÷ after an hour (in a DOOM game...)
    Difficulty: they trippled down on this. More enemies in a tighter space dragged out to 5 minute    I did not enjoyed this at all. Production quality is perfect so thats why the over average score.
    Music: instead of the metal a techno like electronic pump goes during 85÷ of the fights, frustrates the absolute crap out of me. I have tuned down the music to 20÷ after an hour (in a DOOM game...)
    Difficulty: they trippled down on this. More enemies in a tighter space dragged out to 5 minute fights, its boring, tiresome and frustrating.
    Difficulty is tuned up sometimes by taking away visibility, slowing u down (in a doom game) or hord you with stuns when you would need to be precise. Sure I might need to get good, but I had none of these problems in Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal base. This DLC was not the good direction for me and not the experience I expected    … Expand
  5. Hathat91
    Jan 23, 2021
    6
    The game turned from being an action fun game to being a game that just wants to frustrate you and make you feel you’re not smart enough to “get it”.

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Nov 15, 2020
    70
    With three new enemy types and one (very challenging) boss in the mix, as well as three new perks to earn by completing the optional Slayer Gater challenges, it’s a familiar yet distinct experience. But it’s still best to play through Doom Eternal before trying this. [Issue#182, p.155]
  2. GameSkinny
    Nov 12, 2020
    80
    Doom Eternal's first expansion, The Ancient Gods — Part One, stumbles in a few areas, but it's ultimately a damn good addition to the foundation laid earlier this year. All said it's a ripping good time despite its blemishes.
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  3. Gamer.nl
    Nov 6, 2020
    70
    Quotation forthcoming.
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