It's almost like he's spitting in the face of his own story, and I loved it. There's something oddly fun in the Slayer answering high-minded speech with the barrel of a shotgun.
The Doom Slayer himself never speaks, and whenever he meets someone-human or demon-they respond with an intense fear of this living force of nature. It's a weird mix of tones, as present villains and heroes long dead deliver deadly serious monologues, like small scenes filling the space in a heavy metal concept album. Enjoy the ride." The adventure is partially the tongue-and-cheek black humor of Doom (2016), but there's also a deep vein of mythology, where Doom Eternal expects you to nod along to the machinations and history of the Night Sentinels, the Khan Makyr, and Deagic Council. Was there some novel or comic I forgot to read? It's an entire game that starts in media res, id Software saying to the player, "This is what Doom is now. I honestly thought I had missed something.
Before you were one man on a crusade, now you're one man with a gateway to the entire universe. When you load it up for the first time, you get a monologue from King Space Viking (not his real name), the collective cries of the human race, and the Doom Slayer preparing for the death-dealing in a goddamn floating castle in space, The Fortress of Doom. This all sets up Doom Eternal as bigger, gorier, and more intense than what came before. Doom Eternal sells the feeling of an entire universe under siege, and it runs at a clean 60fps on my PC with a 2060 RTX. From the moment the Slayer steps out into the demonic invasion of Earth, where a massive Titan is stomping around the husk of humanity, you already feel like Doom Eternal is aiming to be much bigger.
The sense of scope and scale this time around is nothing short of stunning. Doom Eternal wants to be the second landmark album after an amazing debut-the game version of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. Doom (2016) re-established the core of the franchise-heavy metal album cover aesthetics mixed with high-speed, high-tension gun murder. It's always interesting to see something trying to break free of its foundations.
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