4 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 95.6 hrs on record (14.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 21 Mar, 2020 @ 9:04am

A truly amazing game that finally offers some proper fast and brutal gameplay I've been craving for ages. A step-up from the already great Doom 2016 game in every single way. There's so much metal in this game that you could make Mars seem small in comparison

First playthrough being at around 14 hours with some digging for secrets is fairly fine by itself but there's some good replay value with unlockable cheat codes for levels you've beaten already, and for me personally the gameplay alone is going to give me many many playthroughs

The game is so fast it's almost ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I've pushed the dash button more than I did Mouse 1. And with some good Runes you can become extremely fast
Speaking of which, in Doom 2016 I felt like Glory Kills were too slow and it was necessary to get the faster glory kills rune. Not a problem in this one, they're already fast enough. And I was worried they wouldn't be brutal enough, not the case at all. They're all around amazing

The gameplay dance with Doomguy's abilities is amazingly fun. No other game has ever actually had me use all the possible gadgets in every single fight. The grenade launcher, the ice grenade, flamethrower, all of them. And all of them are very useful and somewhat necessary, since the game is much much harder than Doom 2016, which I only see as an absolute upside. I dropped to so low health so many times but managed to climb back up from there with some careful moves and gadget launches

My only real personal complaints would probably be the Gladiator boss being pretty boring and that I feel like the secret encounters should refill at least some of your ammo. One time I felt like I had to completely abandon a Secret Encounter just because it drank all my ammo and I was left with nothing. But that's really a nitpick that doesn't go against the overall experience at all

TL;DR: 10/10. Goes into my top 3 favorite games ever by far. It's finally a game fast, brutal and metal enough for me
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