#Doom eternal final boss series#

Levels which, by the way, look extremely stylish – very creative Hellish areas with a lot of dynamic elements to boot, and always a boss at the end too. As the players’ combo meter rises, more and more instruments join the banging soundtrack, with the vocals kicking in as the maximum of 16x is reached – a fantastic reward for playing well, made easier fortunately by the power-ups around the levels. These are, predictably, absolute stunners of metal bangers, with vocalists from bands like Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, Jinjer and System of a Down to mention a few. What’s more important to you, a high score or finishing the fight?Įach level has its own song, with the middle part of it looped as long as the player stays in the area. Speaking of trouble like that: players can use a limited amount of resurrections in each level, but it costs them a lot of points to do so. Like with BPM: Bullets Per Minute, the game’s core game system can therefore become somewhat overwhelming, especially when the player is low on health and desperately trying to find a health source. Indeed, having to constantly look after the combos can sometimes become the biggest challenge, as it’s not easy to stay on the correct beat when trying to dodge the attacks of a dozen different enemies at the same time. A wrong shot or getting hit once can break these chains, so beware! Shotguns, pistols, or demonic knives and skulls: whatever your weapon, it only ever fires if shot at the correct beat, with the player being rewarded with higher scores and even higher damage for successfully connecting long and perfect combos of multiple notes. This is a rhythm-based shooter however, and while movement can be done freely, all attacks have to be done by the rhythm. The movement system is similar to id Software’s masterpiece: high octane first person shooting with double jumps, dodges even mid-air, and even a knock-off version of the glory kills to reacquire health from context-specific melee finishers. Like in Doom Eternal, most of the combat plays in Devil May Cry-esque arenas, where the exit remains closed until the final demon is sent to Hell – or wherever they go when they die in Hell, anyway.

The first playable segment functions as a quick and dirty tutorial, that shows how similar the game looks and plays to both Doom Eternal and BPM: Bullets per Minute. Fans of the Hellish imagery of Doom and metal music will certainly have a blast, that much I can say. I’d not dive into the specifics of the story solely because it’s only a handful of beats, so I’d rather not spoil much. It has a fairly cheap style to be fair, but it’s effective in the context of the silly yet powerful lore. Also it’s coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch! The expectations for such a ridiculous crossover are enormous, but can the game live up to them?Ī game like this certainly doesn’t necessitate of a bold storyline, yet there’s fully voiced cutscenes featuring slightly animated hand-drawn sprites. id Software’s trademark ultraviolence combined with a high-octane rhythm shooting game and an absolutely shocking cast of legends from the metal scene to deliver a bombastic soundtrack. It’s 2022, and a long-awaited mixture of those two styles of game is finally in our hands. Back in 2020 I reviewed the brutal Doom Eternal, then in 2021 it was the time for the rhythm-based shootouts of BPM: Bullets Per Minute.

#Doom eternal final boss series#

It’s as if this review copy of Metal: Hellsinger were fated to land on my Xbox Series X all along.