#Finger slayer wild series#

Kill these enemies while they’re still burning and they’ll drop a big bounty of armour. This is a short flamethrower blast that sets demons on fire and while they’re roasting, they slowly drop armour bits. If you’re plush with ammo and health, you can also gain armour shards with a different type of attack – the flame belch. You can’t do this repeatedly (it has to recharge after use) and not at all to some demons (but you can get gas can pick ups which mean you can saw some better foes asunder). Instead, you can use a chainsaw attack which will instantly kill the enemy in front of you and spawn a tonne of ammo out of their corpse at the same time. Ammo can usually be found in area’s where you’ll be doing a lot of fighting but finding and obtaining it means taking your cross-hairs away from the tooth and clawed enemies bearing down on you. The design here has the similar effect to the weapon degradation in Breath of the Wild, as in you can’t just pick a favourite and keep using it. Ammo in Doom Eternal is a precious resource because you can’t carry vast amounts of it (but the amount you can carry can be increased with collectables). With Doom Eternal, they’ve managed to avoid any staleness setting in by giving a purpose to every type of rip and tear. One of the biggest criticism’s of Doom ’16 was that all the ripping and tearing eventually became repetitive. These are devastating uppercuts which can turn a whole corridor of zombies into chunks or knock all the armour off a Cyber-Mancubus. Each Glory Kill you execute fills a gauge which, when full, enables a single Blood Punch. Eviscerating the skull of a Hell Knight or forcing the power core of a Mancubus into its mouth before it explodes is a really exhilarating feeling no matter how many times you do it. The Glory Kills return from Doom ’16 (a gory health restoring melee attack you can perform once you’ve whittled down a demon’s health) and there’s a bigger variety of them too.

The unfiltered violence that’s a staple of any Doom game returns with aplomb in Doom Eternal. He’s all about forcing stuff down people’s throats. This is unlike what the Doom Slayer does to some of his opponents however.

#Finger slayer wild series#

Hidden away in codex pages are references to the series history that make them fit to the current context but if you just want to blast stuff in the face, the game doesn’t force any of this down your throat. It’s also one of those plots that have depth if you go looking for it. This isn’t a Shakespearean plot by any stretch of the imagination but it shows all the hall marks of being written by someone who know’s their Doom inside and out and wanted to do something new while paying homage to the past. To repel the forces of hell, the Doom Slayer must find and kill the Hell Priests – but the Khan Maykr won’t make this easy and the road ahead of him will unveil some surprising links to his past. The Maykr has orchestrated the invasion of Earth through three Hell Priests – Deag Grav, Ranak, and Nilox – and their guardians. The demons are lead by the Khan Maykr, a supreme being, leader of the realm of Urdak, who has determined that humanity is unworthy and their tortured souls are to be turned into Argent Energy (yes, that McGuffin is back). Using his Fortress of Doom, a Gothic meet’s heavy metal cathedral in orbit around the planet, as his home base, he sets out to punch, decapitate and otherwise destroy any demon in his way.

The Doom Slayer, with a face on him like he just saw someone put the milk in first when making a cup of tea, is not having it. The demons of hell have invaded and the UAC hollogram’s are welcoming them with open arms. Instead, Doom Eternal starts something anew. You can get a bit of closure but you’ll have to go reading through collectable text logs if you want it. The start of Doom Eternal does nothing to tie that up. Without spoiling it, Doom 2016 ended on something of a loose thread. Let’s start with the elephant in the room though. It’s the best Doom game ever made and an essential first person experience. It’s a ripping, tearing, sometime silly, shredding, blood drenched nod to the past and an evolution of everything that was good about Doom 2016. There’s no crouch or kneel button, I guess because Doom Slayer bows to no man, demon… or tight space. You use the same button to tear people into 2 as you do to interact with things in the world. I said “Oh shit” out loud at least once every 5 minutes while playing it. It coins terms like “Super Gore Nest” and “Fortress of Doom”. It’s the personification of aggression and violence. If the world leaders were to decide on whether video games should be banned based purely on Doom Eternal, we’d never see another video game release again. An improvement over the original in every single aspect, Doom Eternal is an essential FPS experience.