DOOM Reviews: 10 Early Reactions You Need To Know

3. It Takes Place Entirely On Mars And In Hell

Just in case you were thinking that in amongst the abundance of hellish imagery and demonspawn, some levels might end up taking you somewhere more gentrified for FPS shooters - like cities or sewers or wherever - know that the devs have set the entire game in a mix of Hell and Mars.

The plot exists only as a way to fire you between the two settings, and any narrative propulsion is resigned to a handful of characters you meet, kill or converse with in equal measure.

DOOM's campaign is refreshingly unique in 2016, if only because we've had an abundance of military shooters kicking our doors down for the past decade. Its franchise aesthetic of being a heavy metal album cover come to life is more unique than ever these days, and it's every bit as enjoyable and targeted demographically as that sentence sounds.