
The game continues its predecessor's emphasis on "push-forward" combat, encouraging the player to aggressively engage enemies in order to acquire health, ammo, and armor.

Players once again take on the role of the Doom Slayer who battles the demonic forces of Hell, from a first-person perspective. Doom Eternal received five nominations at The Game Awards for 2020, including Game of the Year and Best Action Game. The Ancient Gods, a two-part standalone campaign DLC set after the events of the main game, was released between October 2020 and March 2021.ĭoom Eternal was released to a positive critical response, with praise for its campaign, graphics, level design, soundtrack, and combat mechanics, though some disliked the increased focus on storytelling and its platforming sections. In this mode, players can either play as the Doom Slayer or as a demon, and fight until either the Doom Slayer defeats the demons, or vice versa. Set some time after the events of the 2016 game, the story follows the Doom Slayer once again, on a mission to end Hell's consumption of Earth and foil the alien Maykrs' plans to exterminate humanity.Īlong with the single-player campaign, a multiplayer mode, Battlemode, was introduced. The sequel to Doom (2016), and the seventh game in the Doom series, it was released on March 20, 2020, for PlayStation 4, Stadia, Windows, and Xbox One, with a version for Nintendo Switch being released on December 8, 2020, and versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S being released on June 29, 2021. Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.
