41 - Doom (PC) - 3 Hours PLAYING - The game finally dropped down to 20 bucks on Steam, so I grabbed that as I had been wanting to play the singleplayer more after dabbling with it on console. It's your standard shooter, nothing super fancy or special, but it's fine. It's dumb fun.
This game felt anything but standard to me. In fact it is the best FPS I've played in years by far. It was so frantic, chaotic, and smooth, almost as if a really good SHMUP some how became a FPS. Everyone is obviously going to feel different about each game, but this game was completely exceptional in my opinion.
It just doesn't do anything new to me. I understand what it was trying to be, an old school game with modern sensibilities, but I already got that with Shadow Warrior and Wolfenstein, twice! It's got your standard gear and weapon upgrades, your standard grab a colored key to progress, collectibles, and multiplayer I'll never play. It's damn polished and fun, and I love the heavy, grinding, industrial, metal that kicks in during fights, and the hyper-violence is always nuts, but otherwise it's just a pretty regular mindless shooter. That's what Doom is though, so I can't really fault it for that.
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And just to add, I've never been a huge Doom fan. Never really liked the old games and I didn't have any real issues with Doom 3. It's not normally my kind of shooter, which is why I think the new Wolfenstein is a way better game. It has what is familiar to the older style, but it's very much a modern game, offering stealth action as an option or you can just go balls out along with an entertaining story and setting.
