"DOOM Eternal" just launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Google Stadia.The new game is the first truly excellent game of 2020, and a perfectly cathartic experience in a bizarre moment of human history.At any given moment in "DOOM Eternal," you can stop and look in any direction and you'll see it: A perfectly-framed shot of cover art for a deathmetal album.
Yes, you have a chainsaw that you carry everywhere. Really. If you chainsaw an enemy in half, ammo explodes out of their body."DOOM" is a classic video game franchise, and that comes with a lot of baggage. It was the first major first-person shooter, and one of the first major horror games. It wasn't about repeating the same fun over and over, but about creating a type of fun that could be replicated in different scenarios.
Both franchises combine superhuman movement with a small armory of weapons and gadgets, and both feature a variety of specific enemy types with specific weaknesses. At any given moment in a fight, you have to monitor which of these resources you're most in need of, and prioritize which enemies to kill and how to kill them in order to gather resources.