With no cover to crouch behind, you need to be constantly moving around and switching weapons. The carefully designed arenas and the relentless enemies add to the combat experience. The Doom Slayer starts out with a weak pistol but finding each new weapon creates this sense of satisfaction as you use them to turn legions of the undead into red pulp. Whereas Doom 3 focused on the horror aspects of the franchise, DOOM rightfully places emphasis on the power fantasy of being a badass space marine. Flavor text found in the codex and holograms that replay prior events do a great job of fleshing out this world but to reemphasize, the story is more of a loose frame work for the cathartic experience of shooting demons in the face.Īnd that experience is DOOM’s greatest strength. The silent protagonist is nothing new in the realm of video games but simple things like shoving Hayden to the ground and tearing the limbs off of demons with ease makes for some very compelling characterization of the Doom Slayer. Refreshingly, the Doom Slayer don’t care about any of this as his personal involvement is strictly to kill the demons. After killing the initial wave of monsters, Facility Director Samuel Hayden asks for your help in regaining control of the UAC facility from rogue scientist Olivia Pierce and to shutdown the portal to Hell. Like its predecessors, DOOM has you in the shoes of a nameless space marine colloquially known in game as the Doom Slayer. In the not too distant future on the planet Mars, the Doom Slayer wakes up in the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research facility and it’s infested with demons. But was it worth the wait for this spiritual successor to the venerable shooter series? After many years in development Hell and getting bought out by a new publisher, id Software has finally released DOOM. The current gaming landscape has changed since id put out Doom 3 over a decade ago. In regards to the original Doom, the game’s controversial graphic violence made it the game other shooters would emulate for over a decade.

In the early days of PC Gaming, id Software’s Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake series broke the mold for first person gameplay. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS IMAGES AND FOOTAGE OF EXTREME VIOLENCE. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED… Formats: PlayStation 4 (REVIEWED), PC, Xbox One

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