3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 138.3 hrs on record (22.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 24 Mar, 2020 @ 11:08am
Updated: 22 Oct, 2020 @ 7:14am

Difficulty: Nightmare

This is my favourite first person shooter this generation hands down. It improves on everything Doom 2016 did and makes it 10x more intense. I love the movement in this game, once you activate the movement rune there is nothing stopping you! You can glide around the arena shredding demons! The double jump and dash work hand in hand with the meaty sounding weapons and the grappling hook of the super shotgun to give you the most satisfying way to kill anything in any first person shooter out there.

I simply love the enemy variety and how you have to balance ammo and health while smashing some demon faces in. The glory kills are so well made and I like that it is based on the angle you come from. I see people complaining about the Marauder but he was only hard the first few times after which he was actually very easy.

The story is also very interesting and I recommend diving into the lore through the many YouTube videos out there, but as expected, is not the main focus of Doom.

The visuals are absolutely stunning and the sense of scale is conveyed very well, especially the Earth stages show the mass destruction caused by the demonic invasion.
Performance is top notch, with my GTX 1080 at Ultra Nightmare graphical settings I was getting above 90 fps pretty consistently at 1440p. It very rarely dipped below 60 but that was only for a few seconds and from my knowledge happened only twice. (Once in a Nekravol arena and once in the final boss battle where I got surrounded and died.)

Last but definitely not least is Mick Gordon's masterpiece of a soundtrack. It is so visceral sounding, going from some ambient humming to thumping guitars, truly masterclass work.
The multiplayer is not too great, I like playing as the Marauder but the servers are absolute trash. It feels horrible to play because it feels like I'm on 800 ping 75% of the time.

I 100% recommend this game to anyone who likes arcade shooters and action games. It's a 10/10 hands down. I love this game, LOVE IT! I can't wait for the DLC expansions.

Tl;dr Amazing arcade shooter, a must buy! This is my "Game of the Decade"!
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