The PEGI 18 rating should be taken very, very seriously, especially if you are playing the game in a house quarantine, in the vicinity of children. Cutting demons with a chainsaw or glory killings in close proximity are animated in a fantastic way and are evidently designed as the key element of the game’s marketable identity. Judged by the quality of pure combat, Doom Eternal is a real winner. Add into that your flamethrower that makes demons on fire drop armor on kills and you have a trifecta of game mechanics that refreshes the new formula and brings it to a new level. Each of these mechanics connect into a tactical dance of death in which situational awareness regarding exploitable weakness is equally important as precision with a firearm. Chainsawing requires fuel, a rather limited resource which refills itself to some extent – each saw swing that procures ammo takes 1/3 from the fuel gauge, and that prevents you from having, basically, unlimited ammo by virtue of spamming. This gameplay mechanic is even more important than in the Doom (2016), and the same goes for using a chainsaw to replenish ammunition. Staggered flashing demons that are almost, but not quite, killed provide an opportunity for a glory kill, which replenishes your HP. When you shoot off a gun turret that Arachnotron carries on its back, you turn it from a long-range menace into a short-range annoyance which could be dispatched with ease when you shove a grenade into Cacodemon’s mouth, you will stagger it for a moment, preventing it from closing the distance and biting your ass off. Almost every demon (at least all the major ones) now has a weak spot, which can be exploited and/or destroyed.
Doom Slayer is carrying a lot less ammo than before and demons are much deadlier, even on the lower end of the difficulty settings, so gunplay revolves around two major elements – unloading weapons into demon bodies and dancing around them for glory kills and chainsaw dismemberment, which provides health and ammo, respectively. The most important new (and good) thing about the game is the redesigned shooting mechanics, which is now more tactical than ever before. But even if the case of mistaken identity is far more severe with Doom Eternal, most criticisms won’t penetrate the force field of cool that the Doom franchise projects around itself. Do you remember that controversy? Tim ate a ton of FLAK because he “dared” to introduce some real-time strategy elements into what was perceived and advertised as a pure action-adventure game. Its creators have generated too much goodwill with the 2016 reboot, so they probably won’t suffer the same fate as Tim Schafer did with Brütal Legend. But Doom is DOOM, with capital everything. Most players would not expect that, and I guess they will have mixed feelings about their new purchase. It goes so far that you could say it’s a pure hybrid of platforming and shooting, more akin to Tomb Raider than its predecessors. While you are still in a projecting mode, try to picture a fusion between first-person shooting and 3D platforming gameplay, and you’ll get a somewhat accurate depiction of Doom Eternal.ĭoom Eternal is taking way, WAY too many liberties with verticality and platforming. This experimental third part of its identity makes sense only in the mind of a young millennial showrunner, who passionately believes that experimentation, any experimentation, is a virtue worth pursuing, no matter the cost. Now I want you to imagine Star Trek rebooted as a mixture of space exploration, a post-modern study of humanity liberated from prejudices of its violent history and … a dating simulator.
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For all other follow-ups in its genre, Doom has historical significance that can be compared to the one “Star Trek: The Original Series” has for Sci-fi TV shows. Doom is DOOM, the industry standard for first-person shooters, the great progenitor of most games of this type. Mental images of double-barreled shotguns, exploding demons, heavy metal music, and non-stop action are etched in our collective psyche.
Most people, both “civilians” and long time gamers, are historically preconditioned to perceive Doom as an epitome of shooting action. But this time, the warning should not be about its violent nature, which is globally no longer a big deal (even US senators mostly skip that topic), but the core mechanical systems of the game. The super gory festival of anti-demonic giga violence is back, and like the Doom games of Old, it ought to be sold with a big red warning sign.
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