Doom Eternal Overview

Adding to the glory of Doom series, it’s fifth main game was released on March 20, 2020. As a sequel of the 2016 reboot. Doom is a video game series and media franchise created by John Lamarck, John Romero, Adrian Lamarck, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall. It focuses on the adventures of an unmanned space marine operating under the advocacy of Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) who finds a band of a demon and the undead. Since its debut in 1993, over 10 million copies of the game in the Doom series have been sold.

All about Doom Eternal an Overview

Doom Eternal is the first-person shooter video game developed by id

Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the 5th main game in the Doom series and a direct sequel to 2016’s Doom. 

Doom Eternal was launched for Windows, Play Station 4, Google Stadia and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version planned for a release at a later date. It manages to run extremely well in graphic cards at 4K. But the main challenge lies at running it in 7680×4320 8K resolution. However, the good news is that Doom Eternal plays impressively well at 8K. Easily surpassing all expectations although it demands a very high price both in cash and frame rates. However it is advised not to switch in 8K view because of the fast-paced nature of the game that might disappoint players. You are not going to get the full experience playing at 8K, no matter how good it looks.

Gameplay

The player takes on the role of Doom Slayer, an ancient warrior who is on the pursuit of defeating demon forces unleashed from hell. The interesting part of the game is that it’s access to various genres of firearms like  Combat shotgun, Super shotgun, Heavy Cannon, Rocket launchers, Plasma gun and Ballista. The Doom Slayer armor includes a shoulder-mounted launcher to toss grenades and ice bombs. Many new enemies like Marauder and Doom hunter are introduced in the game along with some old ones such as Pain elemental, Arachnotron, and Archville.

If the damn slayer perishes in combat he will respawn where he died, if he has spare lives, instead of restarting from the nearest checkpoint.

Here is the first 10 minutes of gameplay :

Specification(minimum)

OS: 64 bit windows 7/64 – Bit Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5@3.3 GHz or better or AMD Ryzen 3 @3.1 GHz or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nicosia GeForce 1050Ti (4GB) , HTC 1060 (3GB) , GTX 1650 (4GB) or AMD Radeon R9 280( 3GB). AMD Radeon R9 290 (4GB) or RX 470(4GB)
Storage: 50 GB available space.

Plot

Set 8 months after Doom 2016, about 60% of the earth has been conquered by the demonic invasion. With the earth military helpless in turning the tide of battle and the majority of the population killed during the first month of invasion. The ARC( Armoured Response Coalition) and Allied Nations (successor of United Nations) are created to preserve humanity and evacuate them into orbits. Doom Slayer returns from hell to save humanity by embarking on a quest to destroy the Hell Priest

Campaign mode

Its campaign mode is definitely bigger than Doom 2016. It is a 22 plus hour game. Creative director Hugo Martin backed up the estimate in early 2020 saying,”  We are hell-bent on engaging you from beginning to end” 

Battle mode

It is a 1v2 competitive mode where one Demon Slayer takes on 2 player-controlled demons. It is basically a match of skill Vs strategy. The demon slayer can make use of the game’s huge arsenal weapon.

Doom Eternal broke the series record in opening weekend sales, as per a report by Digital Trends. There is a jump in the number of video game playing public due to the lockdown foreseeing the effects of Coronavirus Pandemic. Doom Eternal publisher Bethesda announced that the new game in Doom series has surpassed all previous records to become the fastest-selling Doom title ever.

It also became the highest-selling game on Steam last week with more than 1,00,000 players online at the same time.

Ron Seger, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Bethesda said,” We want to thank our millions of fans for their enthusiastic support of this amazing title. Despite thousands of retail stores closing, we are pleased so many fans have been able to enjoy Doom Eternal”

An Overview of Doom Eternal

This for sure puts Doom Eternal into the top ten games on Steam by player count. Currently, it is behind GTA 5 and Football Manager 2020. But if it continues to grow at this it could achieve the impossible because Impossible itself says I m possible.