Level three is yet another departure: an infiltration of a cultist castle, secreted amid the snowbound fjords of Greenland. The phrase ‘first-person platforming’ doesn’t inspire the same dread in me that it does in some others, but if you’re one of those others, you should know this is at least a great example of the form.ĭoom Eternal has convinced me that the focus on gunfeel has too often come at the expense of gun impact Sometimes, you’ll jump through glowing tokens that refresh your mid-air dash, enabling you to bounce and blink through multi-layered jumping puzzles like a Hellish pinball.ĭuring three hours with the game across three levels, I saw several such sequences – in one instance navigating a deep canyon, protected by tiers of misfiring electricity. The double-jump returns, but now you can also swing from monkey bars, climb walls, and perform sudden dashes, even in mid-air. Doomguy is now agile as well as just fast, a gymnast as well as a sprinter. This is down to Eternal’s more varied, more vertical environments, and the new abilities you have to get around them. Compared with Eternal, it’s slow and predictable. The contrast was striking.ĭoom 2016 was fast and dynamic. But I was so blown away by what I played of Doom Eternal that I was left hungry for more, and went back to 2016, figuring I’d chase down the last few secrets and runes from my first playthrough. I didn’t realise there was this much scope to improve Doom 2016.

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