

No one is trying to pass off Doom Eternal as something that she is not.

It is clear that even with pumping, the new Doom cannot be compared with Hades in the variety of builds.Īll this is understandable. It is clear that the episodes where you need to jump on platforms are inferior to the ingenuity of the entire Crash Bandicoot 4. It is clear that this game does not have VR support, as in Half-Life: Alix, but not then Eternal was created. It is clear that for this game they did not write a script that could be compared with the script for The Last of Us: Part 2. Doom EternalĮvery element of Doom Eternal has its place. From the point of view of the players, it is impossible to recognize the shooter as the game of the year, which requires so much investment to access.Īuthor of the text: Denis Knyazev. Why then not the first place? Only because virtual reality is still not for everyone. One of a kind, breakthrough, insanely technological – and at the same time famous. This, of course, does not mean that dozens of equally successful shooters for VR will be released after Alix within two or three years, but this still does not detract from Valve’s achievements.įrom the point of view of the conditional “revolutionary” character, Half-Life: Alix is undoubtedly the game of this year, the game of the last year and several subsequent ones. And at the same time come up with new principles of game design, which the entire industry will follow for many years to come. Every step you take, even if it seems confident to you, can turn out to be a mistake, and the usual genre mechanics are quite capable of being a sudden obstacle.Ĭreating a Half-Life: Alix-level game, being such a “discoverer”, is to make a revolution. Doing not just another tech-demo for VR, but a new part of Half-Life for VR is going along a path that no one else has walked before. The technology is new, the principles of game design in VR games are still being formed before our very eyes, and besides, there are a lot of obvious problems in all this, such as the fact that some players in VR helmets are simply seasick. Making for VR a new part of the famous series of first-person shooters (a genre for which virtual reality was supposedly invented) is completely different. Making another little VR game is one thing. As it turned out, the new Half-Life can be called whatever you like and at the same time be a third part, a prequel, and a revolution in game design. Yes, this is not Half-Life 3, but no one has ever said that the third part of the cult series should contain the same mythical number “3” in the title. The release of the new Half-Life is a high-profile event in itself, which cannot be ignored when summing up the results of the year.
