
That was enough to push the game at 4K resolution and "Ultra" graphics settings with only occasional framerate hiccups. You have to go through a series of plot points on the way to confronting each priest, but each one may as well read “.”Īrs' Gaming RigArs tested the PC version of Doom Eternal on a rig with an Intel i7-8700K CPU, GeForce RTX 2080Ti with 11GB of VRAM, and 32GB of DDR4 memory. Instead of fighting in Hell or on Mars, this time you take the fight directly to the demon-infested Earth, tearing through countless grunts to get to three demonic priests. The story specifics in Doom Eternal are as wonderfully ignorable as they were in the previous game. But a few changes throw off the game's flow so badly that they threaten to derail the whole experience. Doom Eternal returns us to the familiar feel of its run-and-gun predecessor, with just enough variety to keep the new game from feeling like a mere expansion pack. Doom Eternal, the newest entry in the series, hopes to recapture that same fast-paced shooter magic without feeling like more of the same.įor the most part, it succeeds. But, thrilling as that game was, by the end of its running time the crowded firefights already started to feel a bit repetitive. Further Reading Doom (2016) single-player review: Back to basicsIt has been almost four years now since the 2016 edition of Doom showed us the right way to revisit a classic shooter franchise.
