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ItвЂ™s very fluid once you upgrade your ammo count a couple of times, where you can easily resupply on the run while youвЂ™re murdering everything in sight, but you do spend the first few missions on what seems like a constant ammo hunt. Each arena is littered with small-fry enemies that youвЂ™re meant to treat like power-ups, so you can chainsaw them for ammunition, flame-broil them for armor, and/or smash apart for health. At the beginning of the game, you have a small arsenal and a low ammo count, so itвЂ™s easy to run all your guns dry at a bad time. The biggest issue it has, to my mind, is that itвЂ™s a slow starter. ThatвЂ™s not a knock against Eternal, really. (There are a few areas, in fact, that feel like this is also a stealth sequel to the original Quake, not least of which is the SlayerвЂ™s hub area.)

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On the plus side, it really lets the level designers go nuts, with stages set on alien planets and in abandoned castles alongside the typical wrecked cities and literal hellscapes. Much of Eternal is about exploring the lore about the Slayer himself that was restricted to codex entries in 2016вЂ™s Doom. The Slayer goes to work fighting it back, but quickly finds out that to track down the Hell Priests that are leading the invasion, heвЂ™ll have to go back to several places from his past. The same demons that wiped out the UAC base on Mars have moved on to Earth, destroying most of human civilization. After getting teleported off to an unspecified destination at the end of the last game, the Slayer starts Eternal by showing up in EarthвЂ™s orbit in a strange, baroque spaceship called the Fortress of Doom. It also feels a lot like youвЂ™ve missed a chapter. While it all comes together in the end, the early levels are rough going, as you havenвЂ™t accumulated enough guns or upgrades to make the combat system sing just yet. Instead, Eternal tries to take it all to the next level, with more guns, more enemies, and a handful of bizarre, arcade-ish new mechanics, including an air dash and extra lives.

If theyвЂ™d produced a game that was simply a mission pack for the 2016 Doom relaunch, theyвЂ™d have been raked over the coals for being content with repetition.

To be fair, for id Software, they were damned if they did and damned if they didnвЂ™t. My run through it was also punctuated by a few frustrating glitches, a couple of really obnoxious enemies, and some new mechanics that didnвЂ™t really have to be there. On the other hand, many of its attempts to innovate on the formula from the 2016 Doom donвЂ™t really feel useful or necessary, particularly early in the game.

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ItвЂ™s a visceral, high-speed thrill ride, full of spurting blood and creative dismemberment, like a roller coaster with a bad safety record.Д®ternal does get off to a slower start than its predecessor, and it starts with a couple of its weaker levels, but thereвЂ™s a handy breakpoint about halfway through the game where youвЂ™ve got enough upgrades and weapons that the action simply flows. In its best moments, Doom Eternal recaptures the pure, desperate adrenaline rush of the 2016 Doom, where every fresh arena full of enemies is a bloody playground.