DOOM Eternal is an unreasonably beautiful experience. The game takes our Doomy boi to a number of unrecognisable but gloriously designed locales across the corrupted globe. For a game about demons invading the planet and causing some gosh darn mischief, it does its best to distract you. I found myself slowing from the action more than once per level to just think \u201cDAMN\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From giant mech suits impaling gargantuan goblins, or the shattered remnants of towering skyscrapers burning with infernal sigils, there is plenty to keep your eyes busy as you search for hidden areas or the way across a river of boiling blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worried, going in, that I\u2019d take issue with the design of the demonic sigils. But to be honest, aside from grinning a bit when I noticed some barely reworked edgy teenager occult-101, DOOM\u2019s designers have done a bang-up job of taking 17th century alchemical symbols for brimstone and making it look believable emblazoned onto the wall of a fractured shopping mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It looks very nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lore and Legacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a stronger focus on lore this time around; no more Doomguy punching out screens, this time it\u2019s all about Hell Priests and Night Sentinels and all sorts of good stuff. Some may not like reading pages and pages of text explaining the history of Argent energy and the Slayer\u2019s buddies, but here I am waiting for full release so someone with more time on their hands can pull it all into the wiki so I can read it again. It\u2019s absurdly over the top, and it\u2019s so much fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would I recommend DOOM Eternal? Yes. Yes I would. I haven\u2019t enjoyed a shooter this much in a very long time and, even though there\u2019s a little too much teased lore over solid answers, I had so much fun I barely noticed. And hey, gotta leave something for the inevitable and already hotly anticipated sequel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game is functionally perfect, with none of my gripes even coming close to slowing the mayhem. Multiplayer isn\u2019t live yet, unfortunately, but I’ll update this review with that post release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I\u2019d sell my soul to play DOOM Eternal for the first time again.
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