15th March
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, Bertie realises he has a soft spot for Hell-based games, as he dives into Doom Eternal while also still paddling around in Diablo, and Tom Avowed revitalises his Avowed experience by dropping the difficulty a bit.
What have you been playing?
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Doom Eternal, PC
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I can’t believe Doom Eternal is five years old already. I slept on it when it first came out, for some reason, so I’m swatting up on it now. And my god, what a game.
Doom 2016 was so cold by comparison. It was all feature-less grey space station corridors and hanger-like areas, until you got down to the more gothic, elaborately carved Hell architecture later on. But here in Eternal it’s maximum Hell from the beginning. Earth – or a planet like Earth (I’m not paying that much attention) – has been taken over so you portal there from your snazzy Doom space station (!!) to sort it out. Hell, then, is already there, and it’s there in abundance. The remnants of a titanic war are writ large all around you. Spiked Hellish architecture scratches at the skies, themselves blood-red and fiery orange with pain. It’s spectacular.