DOOM Eternal Review: 8 Ups & 1 Down

7. The Best FPS Combat In Gaming History

DOOM Eternal plays like a thrash metal guitar solo. It’s a guttural scream bellowing the opening of a track that’s only followed by the band going hell for leather, and thousands in attendance headbanging their grandchildren into a lifetime of hereditary neck problems.

There’s a PACE to new-age DOOM, and after 2016 set the bar, Eternal innovates and expands in all the right ways.

Your chainsaw now activates with a push of the button, the all-new Flame Belch means on-fire enemies spew armour, letting you stay amongst the fray as you charge SO MANY additional modifiers for what happens next.

The three separate upgrade systems give you grenades that scatter from grenades, enemies have weak spots that disable certain attacks, others respond to a grenade in the mouth or having their head-cannons shot off. The GLORIOUS one-hit kill Blood Punch is a super melee that unleashes a shockwave designed to clear space, should anything get in your way.