Doom: Ranking All The Games From Worst To Best
6. Doom Eternal
As the latest entry into the franchise and the direct sequel to the 2016 soft reboot, this game had a lot to live up to. Having been in development for almost four years, expectations were at an all-time high, even after the delay from a 2019 to 2020 release and the controversy surrounding Mick Gordon’s soundtrack for the game.
Fortunately, Doom Eternal delivers in abundance.
More than making up for a great deal of the earlier game’s shortcomings, Eternal gives us a broader range of demons to battle and an ammo-restrictive difficulty system that prevents the player spamming their Super Shotgun until their trigger finger falls off. They also streamlined the already butter-smooth gameplay and packed in a meatier punch for the kills. In short, they took what worked about the last game and dialled everything up to eleven.
So why is it so low on this list? Well, they may have dialled things just a teensy bit too high.
What was once respectable lore that never impacted too heavily on the gameplay now becomes a front and centre narrative that drags the player from their slaying hot-seat kicking and screaming. The abundance of skins and extra features can feel overwhelming, and the online multiplayer system has become too integral to an historically single-player celebrated franchise. Come the third instalment, it would be wise for id Software to take a tentative step back…