When the new DOOM came out in 2016 almost everyone was in love with it. Me personally? I thought it was a fun game, but it lacked a lot of things I liked about FPS games. With the classic Doom titles the entire level was the challenge, whereas 2016 had a more arena-based design where each separate encounter was the challenge. At times, I found it boring, at times it had genuinely good moments. But overall it was a solid FPS that got elevated into something more due to its technical elements, its visual design and most importantly its fantastic soundtrack.
DOOM Eternal, right from the first teasers of it, was showing willingness to reintroduce a lot of the exploration and a lot of arcade silliness of the classic FPS titles back into the formula crafted by DOOM (2016). Was the resulting mix successful? Well… More often than not. It’s the “than not” parts that kill the enjoyment with the game.
