I was wrong. DOOM is a miracle, and now I am looking forward to DOOM Eternal. I can not wait ... plot

Friday, 21:38. I'm sitting with friends at the bar. Then I am struck by how much I am waiting for DOOM Eternal. I feel like leaving the premises and watching all the trailers maniacally. But I am hungry for arcade, bloody, demanding shooting. However, not because of tearing the demons, I am waiting the most. The most important thing seems to me ... lore . History of the universe. Role-playing background. I fell on my head?

I've been reviewing the game on Spider's Web for a few long years. My critic's nose usually works correctly. Even when others seem to be plotting three to three. For example, when, as one of the few in Poland, I claimed the failure of Evolve. Others were delighted and took me away from reverence and faith. Or when I told you to remember the Fortnite name, because the game is doomed to success. We're talking about times when the title still has not got the battle royale module. Despite this, I was convinced of his great success. I also do not complain about the gaming smell. Which does not change the fact that like everyone I make mistakes. Fortunately, I can admit to them.

DOOM (2016) I called a good game, but not so successful that the world would remember it for a long time.

Two years have passed since my review, and the Martian base is still on the screen in the living room. I'm just going through DOOM for the fourth time. This time again on the Nintendo Switch. I can not tear myself away. I love not only the mechanics of shooting, but also the dense Martian atmosphere. It is full of red dust surroundings. These dark corridors and infernal dimensions. It pulls me a DOOM like a moth to the light and I can not resist the next sessions with a single player campaign. Strange for a game from 2016, which we will not remember soon, right?

I confess, I made a mistake. In my review I was too strict for the shooting. I did not appreciate the long-term impact that production can impress on me. Today DOOM (2016) is one of my favorite shootings for offline players. The production has a permanent, honorable place in the memory of my Switch, my PS4 and my computer. I love to come back to it and I sincerely look forward to continuing. If, however, I would like to indicate the reason why I blur my hands on the sequel, it will not be an intense action at all. It's about ... lore . For the history of the world.

DOOM (2016) brought with it a very interesting mythology. One that you want to discover.

The game's scenario reveals an interesting story to the player. We're not controlling any space spacecraft there. The main character of DOOM is an eternal being who comes from a completely different dimension. Another civilization. Its history dates back to the old days, when a great, magnificent and strong nation successfully defended itself against the minions of hell. The war with demons lasted for years, but the devil's men could not gain an advantage. All because of the great power of warriors who spread terror between the ranks of monsters.

Visiting the hell in the DOOM, we find very interesting shreds of history. It follows from them that the nation of defenders has been betrayed from the inside. Defensive magic has been corrupted, and the demons have launched a devastating surprise attack. By acquiring the land of powerful beings, the humans learned to use the transitions between dimensions. M. in. in this way, monsters appear on Mars, and later also on our homeland.

Not all warriors of a forgotten nation, however, were under the claws of demons. Our hero roamed the hell alone, sowing terror in the ranks of evil. He fired a vengeance so much that it was an infinite fuel to fight demons. No man was able to resist the strength of the creature, which gained a completely new name: Slayer. Slayer dropped demonic blood in successive circles of hell, and even the strongest generals could not stop him.

Where brute strength did not help, he won the cunning. Slayer was lured into a trap. An (anti) hero blinded by anger, hatred and the rule of vengeance burst into the sanctuary. There the demonic priests performed a special ritual, which the destroyer was tethered. The dormant warrior would never get out of his tomb, located almost in the center of hell. After many losses and many sacrifices, the demons could finally celebrate the victory. Their own kingdom has become safe again.

Here we jump directly to the action well known from the DOOM game.

Mankind seeks to tame the hellish dimension that abounds in an extremely valuable, extremely profitable energy resource. The curiosity of our species was pushed in by a squad of marines to hell itself, where soldiers found a sanctuary with captured Slayer. People managed to transport the warrior's sarcophagus back to the base on Mars. Moments later, large-scale infernal forces invade.

To the despair of demons, the destroyer wakes up from his dream. Slayer grabs a gun and does what seems to be his sense of existence. The being moves to fight the spawns, once again awakening in itself the rule of revenge. His anger is great, his tireless perseverance and steel determination. Well, of course, unless the player is discouraged after the first few moments of first-person shooting. Fortunately, you can always lower the level of difficulty.

The DOOM universe is much richer and more interesting than you might think. It will prove DOOM Eternal.

During the E3 conference, game producers announced that they will concentrate on history, narration and the universe more strongly than ever before. I can not wait to see what will happen. I am definitely in favor of such a course, unless intensive gameplay suffers. It seems, however, that the creators found a golden mean between the two areas. This is clearly shown by the video below, in which Slayer interacts with people defying the demon attack. I am a huge fan of the film scene from the very beginning and I hope that the sequel will be full of many more such pearls:

The DOOM universe can be as rich as Warcraft, Diablo or Destiny. I'm not exaggerating. If there is hell in Slayer's world, why not sky? If there are demons, would not there be angels? I know, winged cherubs fit the DOOM like a fist to the nose, but the game producers do not have to use scratched schemes. I would like to remind you what the idea of ​​the sky was for example in the Bayonetta series. There, the heavenly retinue was the bad guys as well as the hellspawns. If not more. Angels in the Asian action game could look scary.

The first DOOM already suggested the existence of other dimensions and other thinking beings. After all, the game throws us into the skin of such a being, although we are not aware of it from the very beginning. Since hell fought with one powerful force, there could be more. I see with the eyes of my imagination how humanity is building strength with a completely new side of the conflict. Everything, just to repel the infernal invader. Until I recalled Half Life, where the resistance could also count on extraterrestrial forces hostile to the Kombinat. There are plenty of possibilities. It all depends on the fertility of screenwriters.

I believe that DOOM Eternal can be much more than a full action shooter.

The main question is: should it be something more? Maybe the current format is the only one that's right and any changes and experiments should be treated with hostility and detachment? Although I am quite a conservative player, in this one case I feel like a wild experiment. For a bold entrance into a full, rich, detailed universe. In a world where you can later attach books, comics and whatever comes to the publisher's head.

It is possible, however, that I belong to a minority. That I'm wrong again, as with this unfortunate review. After all, I belong to the group of these cursed people, whom the DOOM 3 fictionalized really liked. I loved that game and that voltage gradation. As in racial horror. Of course DOOM Eternal will not have a similar survival color. However, I hope that the game will open the brand to completely new threads, stories and themes.

For many older players it's probably heresy, but whoever said that being a heretic is not pleasant at times.

I was wrong. DOOM is a miracle, and now I am looking forward to DOOM Eternal. I can not wait ... plot