Doom Eternal review: Relentlessly, sickeningly violent – but what else is new?

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Doom Eternal won’t quite revolutionise the medium the way the original Doom did, but you can’t say it doesn’t deliver on expectations. 2016’s reboot Doom was the first in the franchise to really flesh out the universe’s backstory; Eternal takes this one step further, with elaborate backstories and interplanetary lore stuffed into the game’s crevices. Doom Eternal expands on the features and gameplay of its 2016 predecessor There’s also an online multiplayer mode, which looks to significantly re-vamp the meagre offerings of Doom. Nearly three decades later, audiences have grown thicker skins; Doom Eternal’s de-politicised, supernaturally grotesque acts of violence are unlikely to cause a stir among any but the most stridently puritanical watchdogs.