Each time you play you can feel yourself improving, and your first properly good goal – not one where you’ve accidentally tapped it in with your bumper – is a memorable moment. If you want, you can switch it entirely to a game of hockey, with a puck instead of a ball.

You can team up with a squad and really dive into the tactics, rotating goalkeepers and trying to score the perfect team goal. You can gather some friends on a sofa and set up a casual 1v1 tournament, with bonus scores for the flashiest goals. The great thing about Rocket League is that it’s fun at both of these levels.

But as you get to grips with the controls, it turns into an aerial acrobatic show with front flip assists, mid-air twirls and last-second winners. Rocket League is, to the beginner, a fast arcade sport where vehicles slam into each other at 100 mph and occasionally bundle the ball into the net. We knew Doom Eternal would be this ballsy – but we didn’t expect it to be clever, too.įootball, but with cars: it’s that simple, and that complicated.

It turns minions into health packs, and you’ll want to keep a few of them alive for when you really need them. Ripping an enemy in half with a chainsaw nets you armor, while lighting them on fire before sending them to an early grave gets you armor. You have to plan two steps ahead to avoid being overrun, and a new resource system makes firefights feel more strategic, less random. You’ll scramble and double jump to avoid packs of enemies, using the super shotgun’s meat hook to grapple to far-off enemies before turning them into red mist. Some enemies are even invulnerable to damage unless you perform a specific counter at a specific time, which is something you don’t expect in a Doom game.įights are still, for the most part, unbearably tense and hectic. Enemies have weak points to target and weapons that you can disable, so sometimes it’s worth finding a spare half-second in the heat of battle to pause, aim, and hit your shot, because it will save you a lot of pain later. But, at times, it’s also about restraint.

It’s an over-the-top celebration of guts and gore in which you chainsaw enemies in half, rip eyeballs from sockets and stomp on demon’s faces with a giant boot. With new weapons, a more agile Doomguy, and a fresh emphasis on resource management (yes, you read that correct), Doom Eternal somehow 1UPs Doom 2016, which was already deserving of a spot on this list.

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