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DOOM (2016)

One of the most acclaimed shooters of its generation, still Overwhelmingly Positive a decade on with recent sentiment running even stronger than its already-elite lifetime score — its few substantive complaints are a matter of taste (some find the campaign repetitive) and a largely historical, patched save-wiping bug from launch week, not anything currently live.

9 / 10

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DOOM Eternal

A visually spectacular, mechanically excellent shooter that reshaped its predecessor's combat into a more demanding resource-management loop some veterans call a chore rather than an improvement — and whose negative sample still carries two well-documented controversies years later: a 2020 kernel-level anti-cheat scandal (since removed) and an ongoing protest over id Software's treatment of composer Mick Gordon.

8.5 / 10

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DOOM: The Dark Ages

id Software's medieval-set prequel trades DOOM Eternal's frantic weapon-juggling for a slower, shield-and-parry combat framework — widely respected as a deliberate, distinct evolution even by reviewers who call it the "weakest" of the modern trilogy — shadowed by a real, well- documented Xbox layoff that cut the studio by more than half the day before its major DLC launched, and by a long-simmering, genuinely disputed soundtrack controversy resurfacing now that composer Mick Gordon hasn't returned.

7 / 10

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