Those seem to have a much more interesting design and creative setups. The notable exceptions are the (unfortunately few) levels that take place in Hell. There are no major firefights that occur without you first punching open a designated "make the fight start now" chum globule, and it's just disappointingly routine. I mean, this is Doom! Where are all the demons hiding behind corners waiting to ambush you? Where are the moments where you open a door and see a meticulously arranged monster setup jump to life? The parts where you pick up a suspicious key and doors pop open all around you? I don't want to rag on this otherwise successful game just for being different than the original, but all of the monster encounters seem to start in a predictable manner and on the player's terms. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it just feels like a missed opportunity to have more natural encounters with enemies that don't spawn in based on scripted triggers. In between major setpiece battles you'll mostly be "fighting" fleshbag zombies in otherwise empty corridors. One thing I'll say about the level design is that there's often a lot of down-time in a manner surprisingly reminiscient of Doom 3.
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Also welcome are the many secrets, which are extremely fun to hunt down although most of the things you find in the secret areas are tied to the awful upgrade mechanics (more on that later). While not as intricate or as creative as John Romero's masterpieces, it is a welcome change of pace in 2016. While some levels are very linear, many have an open-ended design reminiscient of classic shooters, which I love. The game looks nice, although not especially breathtaking, and the creative direction works aesthetically, although I often had a problem with the reddish-brown monsters blending into the reddish-brown environments at quick glance. There's a level of smoothness here that I haven't really felt in an FPS for years, and I hope other developers are taking note. There's no more excessive pop-in, no stuttering whenever you turn around, and the environmental textures don't look like they were filtered through a butt. It also spoils the pot somewhat with a bunch of pointless additions that clutter up the experience for no real benefit.įirst off, the game feels great, with none of the slugginess that tends to accompany console FPSes, and Id has stepped up their game engine-wise since the abysmal idtech5 managed to ruin every game it touched. The result is a game that is extremely fun and frantic, but loses the technicality of high-level play that makes Doom such an enduring classic. Which is to say that the focus is not so much on capturing what Doom actually was, but instead how the mainstream tends to remember Doom as. While I and about 50 other people would have adored a total throwback, DOOM takes the probably wiser approach and reimagines itself as a sort of AAA-budgeted take on what was once the domain of independent and modestly financed European developers: the "throwback shooter".
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