Doom Eternal

Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter that includes elements of action, platforming, and RPG. It is the first game in the new Doom franchise created after the successful reboot in 2016 — the extensive single-player campaign of Eternal serves as a backdrop for explaining the vast game universe (lore). The game also features several multiplayer modes.

The confrontation between the Doom Slayer and the forces of Hell continues with new intensity on Earth, which, at the start of the story, is being overrun by hordes of demons. All planetary defense forces have been defeated, and humanity can only hope for the Doom Slayer. The idTech 7 engine offers excellent optimization even on older machines, with improved graphics and effects, and supports partial destructibility.

The Doom Slayer has returned! As in the original, he tears demons apart without mercy, aided by:

Since the time of Doom , gameplay has changed significantly. The demons in Eternal are more aggressive, quicker, and "thicker," with twice as many on the level. Demon models are destructible and tied to weak points. For example, you can shoot off the rocket launchers on the Revenant's shoulders, and the Mancubus's arms, rendering the mobs defenseless. Flesh chunks from demons fly off with regular shooting, and there is plenty of blood and dismemberment in the game.

Boss battles are more challenging, divided into several phases, and also require knowledge of weak points. The mechanics of stunning and finishing off demons with fatalities remain, and melee combat with blades has become slightly more varied.

In Eternal, there are significantly more opportunities and ways to "disassemble" each group of demons, but to win, the player must move like a cat on a hot tin roof, using their entire arsenal, roasting, freezing, finishing off, and chainsawing demons.

The game features a new movement system reminiscent of parkour: Doom Slayer climbs up sheer walls, jumps further with the help of an upgraded jetpack, uses trampolines, glides in the air, grabs onto bars and chains, and employs instant strafing in any direction. The grappling hook allows him to fly above the level, hooking onto walls or demons.

Eternal presents a cohesive universe of Doom, explaining the origins and development of the game world long before the UAC opened argent energy on Mars, as well as the essence of the conflict between angels and demons. Based on this, sequels and prequels featuring the Doom Slayer are to be expected.

In a distant era, the world of Argent D'Nur, inhabited by humanoid beings, conquered one dimension after another in the name of higher goals under the supremacy of angels, until it accidentally encountered the dimension of Hell. Even the most resilient warriors — the Night Sentinels — buckled under the onslaught of demon hordes until the Doom Slayer appeared.

By carefully reading the materials of Eternal, one can learn about the epic battles of the Doom Slayer against the hordes of Hell, against which the events of Doom are merely a side episode. The new lore explains how argent energy came to be, the origins of the Doom Slayer, the types of demons, and their hierarchy.

During gameplay, the player travels between various dimensions — Hell, Heaven, and Earth with Mars. The design of locations has changed: instead of gut-like levels, there are spacious arenas where demons regularly spawn. The level design remains top-notch: "verticality," many secret passages, and secrets. Platforming elements will require looking around, searching for places to grab onto, where to jump down/up, using chains, bars, and harpoons for acrobatic flips.

A new feature of Eternal is the Fortress of Doom, a spaceship, home, and main base of the Doom Slayer. With its help, he travels to different dimensions, stores collected items, tests his weapons, replays missions (as intended or with cheat codes), learns something new in the Codex, can play DOOM 2 , or practice on demons in the Ripatorium.

Several years have passed since Doom. The closing of the portal to Hell — thanks to which the Doom Slayer stopped the demon invasion on Mars — led to the cessation of argent plasma extraction and disruption of argent energy supplies to Earth, causing a collapse of the economy and society. The UAC attempted to establish extraction directly on Earth but failed after an attack by Hell cultists.

Using an analogue of the argent tower, the cultists once again initiate an invasion of Hellspawn on Earth. The planet quickly turns into a branch of Hell: most of the population is killed, cities are destroyed, colossal Titans roam them, bones literally litter the ground, and both familiar and new monsters swarm everywhere. Stopping the invasion is once again the main goal of the Doom Slayer.

There is no overarching narrative, no secondary characters, missions are standalone and barely connected to each other. The player is thrown into the thick of events right in the middle of the invasion, offering to figure out for themselves who these cultists are, Argent d'Nur, the priests of Hell, the Night Sentinels, Khan Makyr, and the Creators from the world of Urdak. You will need to search for notes on the levels, read messages at the base, and reread the Codex.

In the spirit of the times, Doom Eternal offers multifactorial upgrades: you can improve weapons in three different ways, and two ways to enhance the characteristics of the Doom Slayer, such as ammo capacity, health, and armor, while the Praetor Suit also develops over time. A significant part of the gameplay will be spent searching for secrets, collecting crystals, and medals. Along the way, you need to complete various challenges. Some elements are upgraded passively. After each mission, the player is given a rating that shows the effectiveness of grinding enemies.

The demons in Eternal come in three types: zombies (humans distorted by the influence of Hell), demons (classic inhabitants of Hell), cyber-demons (enhanced or created by UAC or cultists). The entire bestiary of Eternal has changed visually, received new types of attacks, and improved AI. New demons:

The developers took into account the criticism expressed by fans regarding the Doom multiplayer mode and came up with unusual PvP modes: