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20 DOOM ETERNAL

Format PS4 ETA 22 Nov Pub Bethesda Softworks Dev Id Software

Doom comes for us all. It doesn’t care about you. It wants you to suffer. It knows that in that suffering lie answers – for every failure you learn something. That’s all part of the fun. Yet while Doom is built to evoke the titular feeling, it’s almost as much about overcoming it. It’s not a power fantasy that exists outside the fear, it’s about bouncing back and becoming that Doom Slayer power fantasy in spite of it.

Much of Doom Eternal is as it was in 2016’s single-titled Doom. It’s still an arcadey shooter where you brutally and ecstastically murder demon after demon, where you have to remain constantly on the

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