Great service great game

DOOM is a game that few would have guessed would hit the Switch, yet it's a perfect fit now that it has arrived. The less capable hardware does force a lot of sacrifices, but fewer than many might have expected.

Doom struggles somewhat to finish what it starts, and for a franchise that practically created what we understand as shooter multiplayer 22 years ago, its largely flavorless multiplayer is surprising.

Doom has moved on. id Software's new take on its old classic once again straddles a fault-line between the partly colonised surface of Mars and a rollicking Death Metal album cover version of Hell, all goat motifs and bubbling plumes of gore.

It could have been little more than an empty exercise in nostalgia for the thirtysomething crowd. Thankfully, Doom manages to blend in just enough 21st century tweaks to appeal to the kind of Modern Warfare-raised whippersnapper who thinks “shareware” is something you keep your picnic sandwiches in. Is it an essential purchase? Not unless you’re a twitch shooter fanatic, or an old DOSer looking to relive your early FPS memories given a modern day sheen. It’s an enjoyable shooter with a decent campaign and a turbo-charged but messy multiplayer mode, but one I suspect many will hold off buying until the price drops a little – and I wouldn’t blame them.

Captures the spirit of the early Dooms; Campaign is packed with secrets; Potentially brilliant map editor;

Underwhelming multiplayer; Barely-there plot;

Captures the spirit of the early Dooms; Campaign is packed with secrets; Potentially brilliant map editor;

Underwhelming multiplayer; Barely-there plot;