5/5 ★ – deathbydasani's review of DOOM Eternal.

This is the de facto FPS experience and no one can convince me otherwise. From the very beginning you are experiencing pure action and shooting with linear levels that also reward exploration. There are collectibles, trials, “cheat codes”, and upgrades to find as you battle the forces of Hell as a one man army. The weaponry is varied and all feels satisfying to use. The movement is the best I’ve felt in any FPS, almost any game even. There isn’t really a bad weapon or path to follow. You also have multiple grenade types, movement abilities, and environmental hazards to avoid/use to your advantage in each level. Not to mention that each enemy type has an ideal way to deal with it in an “efficient” manner, but that doesn’t stop you from being able to brute force your way though it either, since you are the Doom Slayer. The variation brought to each encounter by the combinations of enemy types and numbers helps keep the gameplay feeling fresh and satisfactory. Once you get to the DLC, the game really opens up and pushes the boundaries of what the base game did. It expands more enemies that have new vulnerabilities based off of combinations of weapons you can use. It provides more difficulty that was not available in the original game. It is a perfect expansion upon what you were already doing. If you don’t want to play Doom (2016), that’s fine. But please don’t let the fact that this is a sequel prevent you from playing this masterpiece.