DOOM Eternal - Rip and Tear!

***WARNING*** Possible spoilers ahead...

Doom Eternal is exactly what you expect from DOOM...

Doom Eternal is the expectation identified.  You begin the game this time with some experience from the last outing.  You can double jump at the start and you have more than a pistol.  Matter of fact this game doesn't even give you a pistol...  From that point on mayhem ensues.  Monsters and demons are taking over planet earth and it's up to you to stop them...  Or rather you take it upon yourself.  By all accounts you, apparently, should not be doing this...

The thing I really enjoyed the most about this game is that it tells you a story about the DOOM slayer...  Why is he doing this?  Who is he?  Book series that have been published tell you he is just a space marine who assaulted his commanding officer and so was sent to Mars as punishment...  But this game comes after all of that.  They do well to inform you of how he got to where he is and even a little bit about why he is so powerful.  It's pretty interesting if you are into story, but you have to READ the codex to learn.  The dialogue may tell you some things but the real meat and potatoes are in the codex.

Graphics are great monsters are updated.  New monsters and old from the series make their debut in this game.  You have a sort of lair in this game so its fun to see it fill up with all the collectibles and weapons you find.  You are also able to customize your slayer with several armor suits you can unlock.  The combat is pure mayhem sometimes and others it's fairly tame.  They will test you at times for certain but other times you may just get to have a bit of fun with the enemies.  Monsters have a bit more interaction in this outing due to the fact that you can destroy specific parts of them to change the way they have to fight.

All in all Doom Eternal is the Doom game players have been asking for.  It has more substance than the Doom games of old while maintaining all the mayhem expected of a new entry into the series.  If you are looking for mindless action you can find it here, but you may find yourself interested in the story too...
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