DOOM Eternal

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8.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3893 Ratings

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  1. Asnee_Crabbier
    Dec 27, 2020
    10
    After playing Doom 2016, I was more than hyped for this game and needless to say it did not disappoint. Although I was initially apprehensive towards the new limited ammo I quickly got used to it and boy did it feel good switching between weapons absolutely destroying demons. The game is fun and challenging and always fair even on the nightmare difficulty, which is the highest one. TheAfter playing Doom 2016, I was more than hyped for this game and needless to say it did not disappoint. Although I was initially apprehensive towards the new limited ammo I quickly got used to it and boy did it feel good switching between weapons absolutely destroying demons. The game is fun and challenging and always fair even on the nightmare difficulty, which is the highest one. The game runs at a smooth 60 fps with very little stutters or frame drops. The weapon mechanics have a lot of depth, the weak point system brings a significant change to the way you deal with demons compared to 2016. The enemy variation is great and the demons look even more doomy than last year, and the cosmetic damage to them looks fantastic and really shines light on what the idtech engine can accomplish even on console hardware. You sometimes get a short break in the action in the form of some parkour, and variety is always welcome. The story is not particularly strong but the gameplay more than makes up for it. The slayer gates make you sweat and despite dying over and over again, I never got tired of them, and the feeling I get after completing one of them is great. I also want to add that the Fortress of Doom is a very neat addition to the game, and it features a computer on which you can play the original Doom as well as Doom 2. The maps are very well made and filled to the brim with secrets which are very fun to look for and find. My only qualm with this game is the marauder. Although not particularly difficult he brings the gameplay to a halt and the distance at which you have to stand to be able to counter him is nebulous.
    To conclude this review I want to say I had a blast Ripping and Tearing through this game and that Doom eternal deserves a spot as the greatest first person shooter game of all time.    … Expand
  2. arashmirzai
    Dec 26, 2020
    10
    That game is awesome and really best shooter this game increase your adrenaline by awesome music game and have amazing combat system and fun experience just a little excess Violence but is best shooter game and make you good experience
  3. Will00028
    Dec 26, 2020
    0
    what a boring and overrated game. shooting the same demons over and over and over and over and over and over and over...and if you die, the same thing over and over again.
  4. Stal
    Dec 26, 2020
    10
    Игра которая перенесла меня в мое детство, настоящий хардкорный шутер, который заставляет попотеть, даже на среднем уровне сложности. Красивая графика, интересные загадки, и конечно же отличное музыкальное сопровождение, лично от меня 10 из 10Игра которая перенесла меня в мое детство, настоящий хардкорный шутер, который заставляет попотеть, даже на среднем уровне сложности. Красивая графика, интересные загадки, и конечно же отличное музыкальное сопровождение, лично от меня 10 из 10
  5. Dantekillahbee
    Dec 25, 2020
    10
    It is too beautiful, to see your enemies being split in half, beautiful. The soundtrack is pretty good, especially when there is a battle and the music starts playing and you feel like God and nobody can beat you, the best thing is to play it in Nightmare or Ultra-Violence, I bought it on 12/14 and I finished it on 12/17, absolutely wonderful. The story is also good, what if there isIt is too beautiful, to see your enemies being split in half, beautiful. The soundtrack is pretty good, especially when there is a battle and the music starts playing and you feel like God and nobody can beat you, the best thing is to play it in Nightmare or Ultra-Violence, I bought it on 12/14 and I finished it on 12/17, absolutely wonderful. The story is also good, what if there is something I wanted to clarify is that there are people who say that there are many bugs, but no bug appeared to me, it is definitely worth buying. 10/10… Expand
  6. Eprom
    Dec 23, 2020
    4
    This game is hard and frustrating, because you constantly run out of ammo. There are also some annoying jump and run elements, which don't belong in a FPS. Overall this game sucks.
  7. SebbyPlaysMusic
    Dec 23, 2020
    7
    Overall, pretty fun! Engaging graphics. The controls and gameplay are simple yet nuanced. Soundtrack is fitting.

    My biggest complaint at the moment (while I'm still slogging my way through the campaign with occasional frustration) is that there are very clearly platforms I should be able to land on to reach hidden areas that the developers just block off with invisible walls. Like... I    Overall, pretty fun! Engaging graphics. The controls and gameplay are simple yet nuanced. Soundtrack is fitting.

    My biggest complaint at the moment (while I'm still slogging my way through the campaign with occasional frustration) is that there are very clearly platforms I should be able to land on to reach hidden areas that the developers just block off with invisible walls. Like... I get you intended for me to go a different way, but you could've just planned your levels so that it doesn't have so many misleading jumps; I shouldn't be pretty sure I figured something out, only for an invisible wall to reject me into a pit... more than once in a level, I might add. I could stand on a moving platform that I would assume sends me to a secret when I cause it to change direction... Instead I get reloaded on the ground floor. I could try jumping towards some very clear horizontal swing jumps... It counts me as out-of-bounds mid-jump and damages me. For a game that's part platformer, I don't think that aspect really holds up on it's own.

    As someone highly invested in level design, it seems kind of lazy to keep blocking off areas I should otherwise be able to reach if the platforms were just rendered to match their physical appearance. There is such a thing as a natural flow to a level, and the developers seem to rely way too heavily on just putting up walls and boundaries in places to keep forcing level designs to work. The Doom game from 2016 had impressive maps where I really had to think out my route in order to come across secrets; Applying that level of care to this game often makes me feel like I'm overthinking and wasting time. It kind of feels like they're just putting me in a playground with a coat of hellish paint over it. I mean, it works to an extent; It's just not the most immersive Doom game I've played.

    While the level design isn't awful as a whole, it can be a bit disappointing that a lot of the most visually pleasing aspects of levels are areas you probably won't ever reach or interact with, whereas the maps consist of a lot of deathmatch-type areas connected by platforming that comes off as somewhat rigid due to the detection of the environment. Overall, this contrast of gameplay dynamics seems a bit less fluent than in the last game, with the closed off rooms getting repetitive kind of early.

    Overall, Doom (2016) was slightly better. This is still worth getting if you played that game and want another, though. Not particularly disappointing, but not really groundbreaking, either. Kind of just more of the same, but at least they didn't mess up a working formula.    … Expand
  8. Soulsborne7
    Dec 22, 2020
    8
    A good game..................................................................
  9. quimat2
    Dec 22, 2020
    10
    Yes, a perfect game, an incredible game, a very good game. I like to say, I love this game.
  10. OScube
    Dec 22, 2020
    10
    A game that requires skill and a solid understanding of its rules. This is a sport, a shooter sport. It make you feel alive.
  11. bohalaa
    Dec 21, 2020
    7
    very good game, but very fast gameplay and it's a mess sometimes , i enjoyed it but not that much with normal story.
  12. Lotfi09
    Dec 21, 2020
    9
    Best first person shooter of 2020!!! If you haven’t played it already do yourself a favour and go and get it!!
  13. CoolestCritic
    Dec 21, 2020
    10
    If you like slaying demons, using huge guns, and taking a trip to Mars, then you should check this out. The story is amazing and is an excellent continuation of the DOOM franchise.
  14. Tecker-
    Dec 21, 2020
    10
    Best game of 2020 hands down,really fun and addicting to play, epic soundtrack,epic sound effects, epic graphics
  15. Youngish2k51
    Dec 21, 2020
    10
    Doom Eternal is the best Doom game since 64, the best game bethesda has made in years and probably the best doom game ever made. The game takes everything that worked from 2016, made it better, throws away everything that doesn't work, and adds new stuff that makes the game so much better, Eternal is one of the most fun games that has ever been made, the gameplay is so smooth and flawless,Doom Eternal is the best Doom game since 64, the best game bethesda has made in years and probably the best doom game ever made. The game takes everything that worked from 2016, made it better, throws away everything that doesn't work, and adds new stuff that makes the game so much better, Eternal is one of the most fun games that has ever been made, the gameplay is so smooth and flawless, the gore and action is unlimited and I always crave more everytime I play, and the soundtrack, OMG This soundtrack, I can't explain how many hours I've spent in the main menu listening to it's theme and going on YouTube listening for countless hours on every theme in the game, the enemy variants are unique along with the fact that every weapon has it's purpose and strategy instead of you just using one weapon (probably the super shotgun) non-stop the whole game, Eternal has made it so each weapon serves a role in the game, my only bicker is that the story isn't all that but you could choose to ignore it and the game won't get any less fun, overall Doom Eternal is a must play for anyone who is a fast action paced fps shooter fan and a Doom fan, please play this game you won't regret it, easy 10/10 and my personal game of the year.… Expand
  16. yaminotenshi
    Dec 19, 2020
    4
    pretty poorly made, graphic is wonderful but overall color filter and light is really washed out,
    90% of the time you run out of ammo, and you have to jump left and right like super mario to find some, really frustrating.
    Difficulties are broken, normal mode is incredible difficult even for a good gamer(not in term of gameplay just in terms of ridiculous amount of damage and hp of    pretty poorly made, graphic is wonderful but overall color filter and light is really washed out,
    90% of the time you run out of ammo, and you have to jump left and right like super mario to find some, really frustrating.

    Difficulties are broken, normal mode is incredible difficult even for a good gamer(not in term of gameplay just in terms of ridiculous amount of damage and hp of enemies), huge lack of things to do, just jumping like a donki kong platform, with never ending fights in single areas, just to fill the gap of short longevity.

    Really disappointed.    … Expand
  17. Jumper33
    Dec 18, 2020
    10
    Дум лучший мясной шутер эвер. Первый прошел на одном дыхании, этот еще более захватывающий! 10 из 10, наикрутейшая шутерка, хороший сюжет, подача, звук, геймплей, драйв!
  18. Barrymore45
    Dec 17, 2020
    0
    Finished the game and...it's a complete pile of garbage. Annoying from start to finish, the devs should be ashamed. I don't dish out 0's lightly, but this game makes me so angry that any positive aspects to the game are not taken into consideration here.
  19. Yasin1382
    Dec 16, 2020
    9
    همه چی بازی عالیه گرافیک موسیقی گیم پلی یه داستان بی نقص کم داره
  20. Batmate
    Dec 14, 2020
    8
    Great game, thumbs up.
    Kind of a short campaign though, loved the way they handled the story in this one.
  21. lqstuart
    Dec 13, 2020
    8
    Doom Eternal was overhyped without a doubt, mostly because its release coincided with a near-complete shutdown of the entire world, but it's still an incredibly fun game with no real competitor out there except Doom 2016. Worth picking up at full price imo.
  22. depredador1
    Dec 13, 2020
    10
    Simplemente el mejor juego de primera persona decente en años gracias bethesda te luciste está vez.
  23. Wolfyboi
    Dec 12, 2020
    10
    If you like fps games or just mindless gore while ripping demons apart look no further. This game is probably one of the best fps games ever made, the combat feels so good, mastering every weapon and enemy type is essential for harder difficulties and the payoff is murdering demons with ungodly precision and speed while looking/feeling like a badass
  24. Tritonio
    Dec 11, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst than Doom 3 in my opinion, and Doom 3 is not even a proper Doom game, but I had way more fun playing it than this non-doom game.

    Let's get the one good thing out of the way quickly: The graphics are stunning. Way better than Doom 2016, and the framerate is so smooth that I have to wonder how the hell did they pull this off. Hats off to whoever made the graphics and the game engine.

    The music, is good also but none of the tracks has yet stuck to me. I couldn't get the music of Doom, Doom 2 and Doom 2016 out of my mind, I can't even recall the music from this one. Not bad but not very memorable for me either.

    Level design makes ZERO sense: Two titans, which I don't even know what they are at this point, are frozen in place right before one killed the other. I have to find a battery to put into the spear of one of the titans so that the energy lance will active and tear the sternum of the other titan open (mind you both of them are just standing still, like buildings). Then once all the guts spill out, I will jump into the hole in the titan's chest, to go through the titan, exiting through his back (or maybe his butt, I'm not sure), to fall into a platforming section that looks like Goomba's castle from Mario, with spinning chains of fire, enemies all over the place, while you wadle though a swamp with completely hidden tentacles that jump out and hit you while you are trying to shoot at other enemies, cause aparrently players like getting hit by hidden tentacles when they are trying to do something else. Does any of this make any sense to you? Cause it makes no sense to me. This is graphics driven game design: we want two titans in an epic pose, we want Goomba's castle, and we want tentacles, now make a level that has all of these.

    The fighting is simply annoying. I have to think: which weapon do I need to use to kill this enemy, where exactly should I hit the enemy (cause weakspots are fun in a doom game), when should I hit them in the weakspot perhaps they need to have their mouth slightly open or it doesn't work and you need to wait, do I have enough ammo to do that or will I run out of ammo at the worst possible moment (there is a serious lack of ammunition compared to every other doom game to force you to use all the weapons), oh and also check if you have armor, cause if you don't you should remember to set the enemy on fire before shooting them so that they drop armor shards for you. Oh and don't over-shoot enemies cause you'll easily lose the glory kill if you shoot them with two more bullets of the assault rifle (compare that with how lax Doom 2016 was when you overshoot a "blue" enemy). Also don't forget that you should not be very excited with the melee cause it sucks now. It's causing pretty much zero damage now unless you have done some glory kills when you get one strong punch that annihilates multiple enemies around you. So don't try to melee any low level creeps unless you are going for a glory kill, otherwise you'll lose that strong punch for no reason.

    Gone is the "I'll wreck everything" style of Doom 2016. Not only because of how puzzley fights have become, or how much platforming it now has, but from the second level already, the "doomslayer" bends the knee to someone. What the.... the guy that did not care about a single thing in 2016, now decides to show respect to someone who is telling him off at the same time for caring about humanity. OMG what's next? Discovering that the doomslayer has a character and feelings? Am I still playing Doom here?

    I'm not that far in the game but the lore has also gone off the hook. Not sure how they pulled that off but I constantly feel like I'm watching an episode of a series and slowly realizing that I must skipped over the previous episode. But I haven't, I played 2016, I read the lore, and I still don't understand half of what is going on. I'm being guided by green etherial dogs... I'm just lost trying to figure out what is going on when I should be running and gunning.

    I'll put difficulty at the lowest setting to speed things up and try to grind through the unbearable fights only because I wasted money on this. Hopefully the lore will be worth it. I was so excited for this game, now I'm more excided about Doom64 that I got for preordering this.

    Maybe you'll like this. Apparently many people like it. Just keep in mind that this is not Doom 2016. It is way more complex, you'll be thinking way more instead of enjoying raw violence. The similarities with Doom 2016 are: glory kills exist in both, it's the same universe (but I wouldn't say it's the same doomslayer), some demons exist in both games, and well that's all. The two games feel completely different. I was hoping for more Doom 2016, I got an annoying puzzle shooter.    … Expand
  25. Ryno4life
    Dec 7, 2020
    10
    My favourite FPS franchise back with addictive gameplay and ripping and tearing through herds of demons. 10/10.
  26. NikolayHin
    Dec 4, 2020
    9
    Отличный динамичный шутер, с очень весёлым гротескным сюжетом
  27. Zidane_Mina
    Dec 3, 2020
    10
    An incredible shoter, packed with extreme action, speed, violence and exquisite gameplay. The game requires split second reaction times to survive the endless barrage of enemies, requiring the player to use all the tools at his/her disposal, making these one of the most tactical, fast paced, mechanically-complex FPS i've played, with very hgh production values and amazing art direction and music.
  28. marmotmx
    Dec 2, 2020
    8
    Gory and entertaining. Doom Eternal is pretty much a bloody, hectic, fast paced action game. Pretty much what you'll expect from a Doom title. You won't be terrified, but you'll have fun killing hundreds of enemies in an explosion of color.

    Story is ok, although it's mostly told on Codex pages, combat is fun but repetitive, dash, climb and jump are nice additions although jump can be    Gory and entertaining. Doom Eternal is pretty much a bloody, hectic, fast paced action game. Pretty much what you'll expect from a Doom title. You won't be terrified, but you'll have fun killing hundreds of enemies in an explosion of color.

    Story is ok, although it's mostly told on Codex pages, combat is fun but repetitive, dash, climb and jump are nice additions although jump can be frustrating at first. You'll be checking every corner for secrets, collectibles or 1-Ups while waiting for the next horde of enemies. I bought it on sale at $25 USD, it is a nice addition.    … Expand
  29. SamuraiEdge
    Dec 1, 2020
    8
    Doom eternal improves pretty much everything that doom 2016 did. Better enviroments, great combat variety, an anwsome soundtrack, movement is greatly improved with the added dash ability. You are always on a constant rush to rip and tear every enemy.

    I do have some issues with the game though. The platforming sections slow the pacing of the game down, and the story is not very good.    Doom eternal improves pretty much everything that doom 2016 did. Better enviroments, great combat variety, an anwsome soundtrack, movement is greatly improved with the added dash ability. You are always on a constant rush to rip and tear every enemy.

    I do have some issues with the game though. The platforming sections slow the pacing of the game down, and the story is not very good. However these issues are not really a problem because Doom Eternal offers a wide rage of replay value. Collectables are fun to find and the multiplayer is good too. Definitely an amazing follow up to one of the best games of the generation.    … Expand
  30. brachypelma44
    Nov 30, 2020
    3
    Performance is excellent on the PS4 Pro...silky smooth. Looks great, runs great.

    Now that we've gotten the good out of the way, we'll get to the bad: everything else. This game seems to be designed to be as un-fun as humanly possible. Even on "Don't Hurt Me" difficulty, you will get your ass handed to you and die over and over after the first 15 minutes are done. They seem to want you    Performance is excellent on the PS4 Pro...silky smooth. Looks great, runs great.

    Now that we've gotten the good out of the way, we'll get to the bad: everything else. This game seems to be designed to be as un-fun as humanly possible. Even on "Don't Hurt Me" difficulty, you will get your ass handed to you and die over and over after the first 15 minutes are done. They seem to want you to juggle several gameplay elements at once, rather than the tried-and-true "shoot the demons and don't die" that is the hallmark of Doom. They also really want you running out of ammo at every turn, and running out of gas for your chainsaw too, so that you have to take on an endlessly respawning room of demons with your fists (spoiler: you will not win.) Does that sound fun to you? It makes me want to punch a hole in the wall, frankly, and that's not why I play video games. They're supposed to relieve stress, not create it.    … Expand
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#9 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#7 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020

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87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 48 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 48
  3. Negative: 0 out of 48
  1. Edge Magazine
    May 21, 2020
    90
    There aren't playstyles in modern Doom so much as players who use absolutely everything, and players who die. [Issue#346, p.84]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 21, 2020
    80
    A love letter to the classic series written in blood, Doom Eternal is a fast-paced and utterly thrilling way to paint the town (and Mars, and ethereal realms) red. [Issue#174, p.89]
  3. GamesBeat
    Apr 14, 2020
    90
    I enjoyed the ending, but it was so long. I had to wipe the sweat off my forehead. But it felt so good to be done.
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