Review: Doom Eternal (PlayStation 4)

Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear… is you.

Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 45.03GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• 3 save slots.
• HDR support options-Brightness/saturation/min stops/white point/max stops.
• Colorblind settings.
• Invert axis and sensitivity slider.
• Ui-Six colour schemes/crosshair style/presets/Hud style.
• Seven control layouts including custom.
• FPS gameplay.
• Customize character-Demons/Slayer/Gun skins.
• Player card-unlock avatars and name cards. Shows your EXP level and rank.
• Event-looks and acts like a season pass, you do tasks and just play the game to earn EXP and unlock cosmetic rewards.
• Boost-Add 3 friends and you get to share an earned EXP percentage.
• Fov slider.
• Master levels-remixed levels.
• Six difficulties-I’m too young to die/Hurt me plenty/Ultraviolence/Nightmare/Ultra nightmare/Extra life mode.
• Banging heavy metal soundtrack.
• Collectibles-Lore/toys/cheat codes.
• Milestones-own in-game achievements with rewards.
• Two modes-Campaign and Battle mode.
• Armour/health/ammo/lives pickups in the level.
• Clever level design with hidden routes and all secrets have teleporters or hidden doorways.
• Lives-if you die you instantly come back and carry on. If you have no lives you restart at the checkpoint.
• Empowered demon’s-these show up in your game after killing another player in their game and they invade you. They have more loot.
• Wall climbing and pole swinging interactions.
• Actions-double jump, double dash, main gun, grenade or ice bomb and fire belch which causes enemies to drop armor. Chainsaw ( needs fuel) kill small enemies to get ammo drops.
• Glory kills-visceral and satisfying kills on staggered (flashing) enemies and give health.
• Mod stations-allows you to pick one mod for your gun per mod station.
• New mods trigger a video showing them in use or let you use the gun in a separate practice area.
• Runes-like the mod station, you get to pick a rune to unlock and can equip three at once. These are like buffs adding things like faster glory kills or regain dash quicker etc.
• A constant stream of unlocks and upgrades.
• Demon prison- are a practice area.
• Buff totems- Spawn endless amounts of empowered enemies and only stops once you find and melee attack it.
• Fortress of Doom-your hub which is a multi-layered ship and has unlocks to find thanks to Sentinel batteries which are the keys to open the unlocks.
• Armour points-Find these discs in the game and use them to unlock permanent buffs and its split into 4 areas like exploration, ice bombs, and frag grenades and adds buffs like enemies take more damage or use more items, etc.
• Mission challenges-optional side missions. Do 1 for a suit point or all 3 for a Sentinel battery.
• Classic soundtracks can be played in your ship by interacting with their pictures on the wall.
• Auto map-find in the level to fully uncover and show all pickups in a level.
• Sentinel armor (optional) if you die enough you get to have a buff whereby you take much less damage.
• Secret encounter events. Timed fight against waves of enemies.
• Slayer gate-needs a key and is a much harder variation of the secret encounters.
• Sentinel crystals-use in upgrade tree, each section has 2 unlocks, pick both and get a bonus buff. Each part gives either an armor/health/ammo capacity increase.
• Big boss encounters.
• Constant checkpoints.
• Can change the difficulty whenever you want.
• After game completion, you can carry on with your save and use mission select.
• Map-Full 3D.
• Cheats-Old school cool. Find and activate cheats like infinite health or ammo, Stronger enemies, etc.
• Level select showing how many collectibles you have left to find.
• Corruption meter-fills in by killing enemies and the different enemy types.
• In-game cutscenes.

Cons:

• Small text pop-ups.
• Difficult.
• A tiny tiny bit of slowdown.
• Not always clear where to go.