Interestingly, Doom Eternal still has a Hell on Earth vibe as the recent QuakeCon gameplay trailer showed the ruins of an apocalyptic Earth alongside the Martian moon of Phobos. Much more than a standard sequel, Doom Eternal will include a change to 2016's maligned multiplayer and also introduce a new 'Invasions' system where teams of players can enter someone else's single-player campaign as a group of bloodthirsty dem

"I think [Christopher] Nolan did it the best, and we thought about that. It wasn’t ‘Dark Knight 1, Dark Knight 2, Dark Knight 3.’ Each one had its own name, but there was an arc there. They were all connected, as is this game as a sequel to [Doom] 20

I've already seen some people expressing concerns about more platforming being implemented in DOOM Eternal but I don't think there's anything to be nervous about. If anything, the only reason I didn't love these brief platforming areas was because they seemed to break up the flow of combat a bit. The actual movement felt really precise and f

One of the most interesting Google Stadia features is something called State Share which allows players to share and link to moments of a game. Q-Games, the development team behind the PixelJunk series as well as The Tomorrow Children and Star Fox 64 3D , intends to make full use of it with its next g

Snapmap, the fan-creation tool, won’t return in Doom Eternal. id revealed that one of the biggest criticisms they heard was that there was no single player DLC. Players wanted more id developed content, and so the developers opted to scrap Snapmap and focus those resources on post-launch single player content.

The same is true of the dashing mechanic. Have unlimited dash, and it becomes too easy to abuse. Escaping enemies is simple and encounters become boring. By putting a cooldown on dashing, id hopes that players think carefully before using it up. The overall goal is for players to make up the difference between what equipment can and can’t do with skill.

The id Tech engine, which powered Doom 2016 and Wolfenstein II: The New Order, also powers Doom Eternal. id Software confirmed that the keynote demo was running on a high-end PC. Console players, however, should expect a top-notch experience from id. While PC continues to get lots of love from the developer, console players have nothing to worry about.

Looking at the history of the series, it makes sense that Doom Eternal be called something other than Doom 2 . Fans of the games will remember that 1993's original was followed by Doom II: Hell on Earth in 1994. Hell on Earth was usually shortened to Doom 2 , so it's easy to see why Stratton and his team wanted to avoid the confus

"You hear us say it all the time, we call it Doom 2016, and the internet has called it Doom 2016. We go back and forth on whether it was a mistake to call it Doom. I still don’t think it was a mistake, because we really were kind of drawing a new line in the sand. Coming out and saying ‘we’re going to do Doom 2,’ we would have ‘Doom 2: Year of Release Date.

With Doom first hitting MS-DOS in 1993, calling the 2016 reboot Doom caused some confusion among fandom. Executive producer Marty Stratton said how he wanted to try something different when it came to Doom Etern

Being able to pull off something like that, on top of promising 4k resolutions and 60 frames per second gameplay, would require Google Stadia to offer some serious power. And as it turns out, Stadia is effectively a next-generation gaming experience, more powerful than the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X combined . So far, none of the demoed games have really been able to show off Stadia's power, but perhaps some of the first-party exclusives will take full advantage of the platf

Also, can I just say how dumb DOOM Eternal is? Like, dumb in the best way possible. As much as I love playing the Doom Eternal Collectibles|https://Doometernalplay.com/ series, I think my favorite quality above all else is just how self-aware and nonsensical these games are. Eternal seems to be leaning into that wackiness even furt

id’s philosophy extends to the game’s setup. Humanity isn’t all on board with demon’s entering their plane of existence. Some share Olivia Pierce’s love of hell, and the rest want nothing to do with it. It's up to players do discover what happened to humanity between the two games. Also left ambiguous is whether we’ll see angels or Heaven in Doom Eternal. Concept art displayed at Quakecon hinted at the possibility, but the developers aren't saying anything yet.

It turns out that Bethesda's upcoming **Doom Eternal ** gained an unusual tie to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy when it came to naming the sequel. 2016's Doom reinvented the shooter series from its original roots and brought the demonic world of Slayers to the next-generation of gaming conso

Luigi doesn’t get enough love within the Nintendo hierarchy, but he finally gets his much-requested sequel with Luigi’s Mansion 3 . Going hands-on with the game brought back memories of the Gamecube-era experience, from flashing ghosts to inhaling them with your Poltergust 3000. The Luigi’s Mansion formula doesn’t feel sufficiently mined yet, and so this third entry will try to combine a modern platform with new puzzles, clever design, and a charming main charac