Doom: Ranking All The Games From Worst To Best

4. Final Doom

Doom 2016
id Software

What do you do when you have a world renowned duology of games in the late 1990's that are famed for their high octane gameplay and reasonably difficult levels and enemies? You amp up the difficulty by a factor of ten and make your next game the playable equivalent of a leisurely dip in a burning pool of lava, of course.

Final Doom is the most delightful from of torture you will ever have the pleasure and agony of experiencing.

Consisting of two standalone episodes - in keeping with the formula of the first two games - many reviewers at the time considered it to be id Software's answer to the abundance of free-to-play levels designed by other players on the original Doom's engine.

What's even more impressive is that both episodes have two well crafted narratives that don't infringe too much on how the game is played.

But where the average player might know their Pinkies from their Imps, those crazy cats at Id knew exactly what the people did not know they even wanted.

Over 60 levels of finger-blistering insanity, two hilariously convenient plots involving our central marine going a little bit AWOL during the invasion of Hell's forces and an updated soundtrack to crack out your favourite chainsaw to. Reasons aplenty to give this nightmarish game a blast.

It may be more of the same, but it's the one that does it best.

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