#HOW LONG DOES THE DOOM BETA LAST HOW TO#

DOOM used to resent the times when you stopped moving and it's painful to look at enemy characters in absolute stillness as they take me down in a flashy pre-rendered melee attack.

#HOW LONG DOES THE DOOM BETA LAST HOW TO#

There's also melee takedowns, something I didn't manage to work out how to do with my two days of play, but I still loathed. Your only reward is numbers sloughing off the top of the enemies head, telling you that the splash damage from the rocket you exploded in mid-air near their head has done 40 damage.

Moving around is zippy, but kills are slow and take time, direct rocket hits only taking half of your adversary's health bar, shots from an assault rifle or even a super shotgun don't offer much more in the way of killing potential.

It's not that I hate DOOM because of DOOM 3, but rather that game and this beta both seem to have confused ideas about why the original DOOM was so much fun. It's just, well, DOOM 3 broke my heart when it made me fiddle around in a dark room with my flashlight, forcing me to stop and smell the carcasses. It's not that I didn't enjoy some of the blasting, I even cracked a grin when I got an unexpected triple kill with series newcomer the lightning gun. As a result, the DOOM beta just isn't very fun. That flow has been missing from everything I've seen of the game so far, and sadly, from what I've played, it's missing from the beta too. YouвЂ™re a shark, you keep moving or you die. For me, DOOM is Sonic with a super-shotgun, a blood-soaked fun-run that propels you through door after door in search of escape.ItвЂ™s about speed. ItвЂ™s because all of these things were just window dressing wrapped around the originalвЂ™s core gameplay tenet: momentum. I've been nervous for a while about DOOM, ever since I saw the first reveal. At surface level, DOOM has it all, but after a weekend with the open beta, I think there might be trouble in paradise.

How long does the doom beta last