Doom Eternal

Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter with elements of action, platformer, and RPG. The first game in the new Doom franchise, created after the successful 2016 reboot, the extensive single-player campaign of Eternal serves as the 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's only hope is the Slayer. The idTech 7 engine offers excellent optimization even on older machines, with improved graphics and effects, supporting partial destructibility.

The Doom Slayer is back! Just like in the original, he tears demons apart without mercy, aided by:

Since Doom , the gameplay has changed significantly. The demons in Eternal are more aggressive, faster, and "tougher," with twice as many on each level. Demon models are destructible and tied to vulnerable points. For example, you can shoot off the rocket launchers on a Revenant's shoulders or the arms of a Mancubus, rendering them defenseless. Chunks of flesh fly off demons even with regular shooting, and there's plenty of blood and gore in the game.

Boss battles are more challenging, divided into several phases, and also require knowledge of vulnerable points. The mechanic of stunning and finishing demons with fatalities is retained, and melee combat with blades has become slightly more varied.

In Eternal, there are significantly more opportunities and ways to "take apart" each group of demons, but to win, the player must move like a whirlwind, using their entire arsenal, burning, freezing, finishing, and chainsawing demons.

The game features a new movement system reminiscent of obstacle courses: the Doom Slayer climbs vertical walls, jumps farther with an improved jetpack, uses trampolines, glides in flight, grabs onto bars and chains, and uses instant strafing in any direction. The grappling hook allows flying over the level, attaching to walls or demons.

Eternal presents a cohesive Doom universe, explaining the beginning and development of the game world long before the UAC discovered argent energy on Mars, as well as the essence of the conflict between angels and demons. On this basis, one can expect sequels and prequels featuring the Doom Slayer in the lead role.

In a distant era, the world of Argent d'Nur, inhabited by humanoid beings, conquered one dimension after another for higher purposes under the aegis of angels, until it accidentally encountered the dimension of Hell. Even the most steadfast warriors — the Night Sentinels — buckled under the blows of demon hordes until the Doom Slayer appeared.

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

During the playthrough, the player travels between various dimensions — Hell, Heaven, and Earth with Mars. The design of the locations has changed: instead of maze-like levels, there are spacious arenas regularly filled with demons. The detailed design of the locations remains top-notch: "verticality," many secret passages, and hidden secrets. Platforming elements will require looking around, finding places to grab onto, jump down/up to, using chains, bars, and a grappling hook for acrobatic stunts.

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

Several years have passed since Doom. Closing the portal to Hell — thanks to which the Doomguy stopped the demon invasion on Mars — led to the cessation of argent plasma extraction and the disruption of argent energy supplies to Earth, causing an economic and social collapse. UAC tried to establish extraction directly on Earth but failed after an attack by Hell cultists.

Using an analog of the argent tower, the cultists once again launch a demon invasion on Earth. The planet quickly turns into a branch of Hell: most of the population is killed, cities are destroyed, cyclopean Titans roam them, bones literally litter the ground, and everything is overrun by both familiar and new monsters. Stopping the invasion is once again the main goal of the Doomguy.

There is no overarching narrative, no secondary characters, missions are standalone and almost unrelated. The player is thrown into the thick of events right in the middle of the invasion, offering to figure out on their own who the cultists, Argent d'Nur, priests of Hell, Night Sentinels, Khan Maykr, and the Makers from the world of Urdak are. One will have to look for notes on levels, read messages at the base, and re-read the Codex.

In the spirit of the times, Doom Eternal offers multifactor upgrades: three different ways to improve weapons, two ways to enhance the Doom Slayer's characteristics, such as ammo capacity, health, and armor, and over time the Praetor Suit also develops. A significant part of the playthrough will be spent searching for secrets, collecting crystals, and medals. Along the way, various challenges need to be completed. Some upgrade elements are passive. After each mission, the player is given a rating showing the efficiency of grinding enemies.

The demons in Eternal come in three types: зомби (искаженные под влиянием ада люди), демоны (классические обитатели Ада), кибер-демоны (улучшенные или созданные UAC или культистами монстры). Весь бестиарий Eternal изменился внешне, получил новые виды атак и улучшенный ИИ. Новые демоны:

Разработчики учли критику, высказанную фанатами относительно сетевого режима Doom, и придумали необычные PvP-режимы: