Before I start this review, I have to to tell you that I am a big fan of DooM, especially Brutal DooM, and movement shooters like Dusk or Strife.

This game had all the potential to be a great movement shooter, but all I can say is that it's underwhelming for a few key reasons:

1) I love heavy metal and electronic osts in games like this, but DOOM has the most underwhelming and quite metal ost I've ever heard. 90% of a track is a build-up, in most cases, to nothing. There is no payoff from waiting this build-up. Compare BFG Division/At the Dooms Gate to Dusk's Departure To Destruction and you'll se what I mean.

2) Gameplay becomes stale after 10 hours. After you figure out the Target-to-Target strategy (focus a single enemy and trying to avoid everyone else in the process) the game slows down to a crawl as you move from one enemy to another over and over, mashing F like it's COD, seeing the same cutscene to get some health and ammo.

3) Difficulty is not something to be afraid of here, because most of the time you'll die by a random fireball or a projectile you can't avoid cuz there's no strafe button and you slow down if you strafe anyway. You are slowed down by everything and there's no point in moving around the map - gasoline for the chainsaw is found plentyful around the map and Target-to-Target works very well with double jumping.

4) Guns don't have a "Punch" to them. You always feel like you are shooting airsoft bullets at enemies. Sometimes the soundtrack will try to match itself with the shooting and instead of "Wow, this is so cool!" you laugh at how there's a generic aqua base drop every execution. Doubled with Berserker power-up - it becomes a comedy show.

Like I already said, the main complaint is instead of "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is brutal!" all I can say is "Oh, its a buld-up to something really cool, I should continue to play to if it pays off" and it never does. At the end I questioned myself "Is that it? Meh".

DOOM tried hard to be brutal and gory, but all iD did was a "poof" instead of "boom"


P.S. Thanks to ID for reviving the arena shooter genre.