Naturally, all this can also be used to explore and find secrets, and as Stratton and Martin explained, they also helped improve on the weakest areas of Doom 2016: The ones between the big arena fights. You can pull yourself to enemies, pull enemies to you, or use flying enemies as anchors to swing yourself around, and you can chain all of these abilities together to pull off some truly exhilarating stunts. Did I mention the grappling hook? Because there's a dang grappling hook attached to the Super Shotgun and it's frickin' sweet. Now you can double jump, dash twice in any direction (on the ground or in the air), slide around, and climb or cling to specific walls.

This makes for a wonderfully varied maelstrom of violence which I was incredibly reluctant to put down.Д¬ombat's also been enhanced by new movement options. And you do all this while managing the cooldown on your flamethrower and frag grenade, using Blood Punches efficiently, applying your chainsaw liberally, swapping weapons and firing modes as needed, and so on. You can blow limbs off, take guns out, and use exploding enemies to kill other enemies. Those weak points aren't always obvious glowing crit spots, either. On top of dismantling crowds in specific ways, you can target certain parts of some heavy- and super heavy-class enemies to disable their strongest attacks or expose their weak points. Doom Eternal basically turns you into a John Wick-style master of strategic slaughter, and I am here for it. Low on everything but chainsaw fuel? Saw the biggest dude in half, stock up, then strategically weaken some nearby demons with collateral shotgun damage to set them up for glory kills. Gang of Imps nearby, couple of Cacodemons sniping you from afar? Light the imps on fire, take out the Cacodemons while the Imps burn, scoop up the armor the Imps drop, then glory kill them and head into the next engagement with a Blood Punch at the ready. Three weak enemies up front, big guy in the back? Pepper the weaklings with the plasma gun, glory kill them, then Blood Punch the big guy. It changes the way you see enemies by bringing method to Doom's intoxicating madness. These two seemingly minor additions have a huge impact on the way you'll approach encounters in Doom Eternal. You can still glory kill for health and chainsaw kill for ammo, but you can also rapidly land two glory kills to add a devastating Blood Punch AoE to your next melee attack, or you can light enemies on fire with the new shoulder-mounted flamethrower to make them drop armor packs. That idea вЂ“ killing stuff in specific ways to get resources that ensure you can keep killing stuff вЂ“ has been expanded in Doom Eternal. In Doom 2016, you could kill enemies with the chainsaw to make them drop ammo or dispatch them with a glory kill to make them drop health. 'Take what you need from the enemies' was the mantra at my demo. But it's also a smarter, more creative Doom that uses old favorites and new tricks to refine the rip-and-tear formula without sacrificing what makes it so compelling. It's still got secrets to find, guns to hoard, and lots and lots of demons to kill. It's a fast, no-nonsense, old-school first-person shooter, and it builds on the previous game in meaningful and noticeable ways. Doom Eternal is exactly what I wanted from a follow-up to 2016's delightful Doom reboot.

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