At its best, Doom is everything it should be — you, your super shotgun and just barely the amount of ammunition required to kill every single demon on Mars. It feels like a Doom game as you desperately try to find health pickups to keep you going, an ever-growing menagerie of demons snapping at your heels. It's exhausting and exciting and a little bit dumb, and when you're into it you're all the way in. At its worst, Doom is a series of enclosed rooms filled with demons, all of which you must kill to advance. By the time I was halfway through the 8.5-hour-long campaign, hunting down the last Imp in a room so the door will unlock had begun to wear thin.
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