There's also a leaden, retrieve-the-McGuffin storyline that very infrequently insists on pegging you down while an NPC acts out, and skulking to the rear, the charisma-deficient multiplayer. This is one of the most generous and frenetic shooter campaigns in years, a blend of cleverly layered arena battles and exploration spiced with free-running that owes as much to Quake, Painkiller and Metroid Prime as it does the false partitions and keycards of the original game.Īs a work of architecture, the new Doom lacks the delicacy of its unhallowed predecessors: the maps are broken up more obviously into killboxes, often centring on the evisceration (literally) of a demon 'Gore Nest' that triggers a wave of spawns, and their moving parts and secret routes are less surprising. If id's reboot has spent nearly a decade languishing in limbo, the single player offers up little evidence of all that strife and sorrow. This is an all-new Doom, and it turns out we should be thankful for that. At first it's as charming as finding a long-lost comic book underneath your bed, but you are an intruder here, able to jump and climb (blasphemy!) where the original Doom's marine could only sprint and strafe, the sumptuous 3D gun in your hand rudely interrupting the illusion of having travelled back to 1993. Lava flows are reduced to flickering mosaics. The whirling volcanic beauty of id Tech 6 evaporates and you are bathed in the harsh, static glare of forgotten pixels. Venturing into them prompts confused emotions. Availability: Out now on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

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