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In a world with health regeneration and cover-based systems, one of the longest-running first-person shooter series returns to its brutal, fast-paced roots.
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"It's hard to imagine a better Doom game in 2016 than this exhilarating, darkly witty new take on id's classic."
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Rip & tear a whole new experience

Another reboot of the Doom series, this game is the fourth main installment in the series and the first main Doom game to be released since 2004's Doom 3 . It is also the first game to run on the id T… Read more

Not as good as I'd hoped

I certainly don't hate this version of Doom, but I don't like it as much as I hoped I would. I paid $60 for it and regretted paying that amount. It just doesn't feel like Doom to me. It feels more lik… Read more

DOOM - Give it some upgrades and you've got the perfect shooter

Jesus Christ this game is phenomenal. Doom is definitely up there with some of the best single-player shooters of this entire generation. There are so many positive things to say about Doom that I don… Read more

Dance of Death.

(A review of the singleplayer only.) No cover system, no regenerating health, no weapon reloading, and no mercy. If that doesn't sound appealing then this isn't the game for you... This an old-school… Read more

Rip And Tear: Against All Odds Doom Is Game Of The Year 2016

I'm as shocked to say this as you probably are reading it: Doom 2016 is an incredibly good game . I personally enjoyed Doom 3 , but many Doom -fans maligned it when it came out, and rightly so, becaus… Read more

Demonic Invasion At An Awesome Level

The impact of the original Doom on the games industry can never be over emphasised. It wasn't the creator of the first person shooter genre as we know it, but it was the game that made the general pub… Read more

Maybe skip the multiplayer

I've never been one for shooters and Doom has always come across as the epitome of the exact opposite of what I like in a game, mindless shooting. But with the mass gushing about this game and a very… Read more

Rip and Tear, Until it is done

DOOM is truly a masterpiece when it comes to a first person shooter campaign. The rush this game delivers you as you gnaw your way through hundreds of demons, never stopping because the DOOM guy would… Read more

The best FPS I've ever played. Period.

I own a PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Wii, PSP, GBA, SNES, OUYA. 'Show off!' - one might say. But this is just to give a flavor of my gaming experience. For 20 years I've been playing games and different ones. M… Read more

Violent, loud, bloody and brutal - I wouldn't have it any other way.

[Note: I’ve had such a lackluster interest in the multiplayer components that I am omitting my thoughts on them in this review to avoid bogging things down with half-hearted apathy. Because of this, t… Read more

The Sweet Flow of DOOM.

One of the best FPS campaigns ever crafted, DOOM is a must play, even for those who typically don't enjoy FPS.Small tech thing: DOOM is extremely well optimized and has an incredible amount of options… Read more

A Glorious Retro Future Return to Form

One might have thought this iteration of Doom, to be, well... Doomed from the start. Apologies for making you groan, but id Software has seemingly been in its own dark age for over a decade, and every… Read more

This is the game first-person shooters should be.

A couple of things to know about me up front: 1) I've never played a Doom game before, and 2) I'm not a fan of shooters. The only Call of Duty I've played is the first Modern Warfare , and I only foun… Read more

Nailed It (oops, wrong id Franchise)

Disclaimer: I was never a Doom guy. Growing up in the 90s, I knew of people owning PC's who would brag about the intensity, the ferocity that was id Software's revolutionary 1993 work. We all know the… Read more

Doom is One HELL of a game (Kill Me)

Doom is exactly what a Doom game should be in 2016. It’s fast, gory, high-octane and chock full of Satan. If they weren’t past the point of self parody, it might be the type of thing that would cause… Read more

The repetitive nature of DOOM undercuts the handful of great ideas.

Everyone who has played a first-person shooter of any kind has the original Doom to thank for many of the elements that still exist in modern games. This new version manages to introduce several new m… Read more

The most fun shooter I've ever played

It may sound a tad hyperbolic but the new Doom is so good, so incredibly good that I without question would say it is the best first person shooter I perhaps have ever played in my life. Truth be told… Read more

A somewhat comprehensive and unnecessarily long campaign-focused Doom review

As I played through the intro sequence to Doom’s campaign, I initially found myself fixated less on the narrative at hand and more on the wild circumstances surrounding this game’s existence. It went… Read more

It feels so good to rip and tear again

Still so beautifully dumb... It takes a certain audacity to reboot Doom. It’s freakin’ Doom. Doom was the game that popularized the FPS genre. It is the Mario of the PC. It is maybe the single most co… Read more

Holy Hell

DOOM is fun. DOOM is really fucking fun. Not the kind of fun where you're thinking "Gee whiz, the character development on display here is really intriguing. I think the red crystal symbolizes the lur… Read more

An amazing single player game, let down by weak multiplayer components.

Doom is just as incredible a modernisation of decades-old gameplay as Wolfenstein: The New Order was 2 years ago. The games could go hand in hand with the kind of progression those original games they… Read more

Keep It Simple, Stupid

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 indepe… Read more

Doom, straight out of hell and development hell

Taking place in hell, from development hell. DOOM was a game most gamers could have safely assumed was a train wreck. There were no review copies given out prior to release, which is never a good sign… Read more

DOOM: Modernized

DOOM was saddled with one of the biggest problems that the old powerhouse studios of video game development have struggled with eternally: "How do we make a classic property in 'Year XXXX' feel modern… Read more

Doom proves that gameplay can still make a really fun game

Rebooting Doom was no easy task and I had quite a few reasons to think this might not turn out so well. Those fears were unwarranted because this does exactly what a fan of the original Doom would hav… Read more

"Gotta Go Fast" has a new meaning.

After the unsuccessful multiplayer beta, there wasn't much hope for the reboot of the grandfather of all first-person shooters. DOOM looked as though it's fate was already sealed as a major disappoint… Read more

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