Doom for Switch Reviews - 78 Metacritic (45 critics)

[Mr Puggsly]

Cobretti2 said:

Mr Puggsly said:
In a nutshell, its great if you actually plan to use it in portable mode. But its also a medicore console version.

With that said this may affect how critics feel about it.

The only difference is graphics and fps. How does it make it medicore? It all depends on what you value in a game. I'd take any sub par graphics if the story in the game is awesome over something with leading edge graphics and has no story.

Take COD for example, on Wii to me the game was much more fun to play with he pointer controls even though the graphics were pretty much washed out compared to the other systems. I had the game on xbxo 360 and PS3 and to me yes the graphics were cool, but it just felt like a step backwards in game mechanics.

I feel like part of what makes Doom good is the graphics and frame rate. I mean that's why CoD and BF have an emphasis on 60 fps, that does make it more enjoyable.

I mean you could play Doom on a low end PC with all the graphics settings down and frame rate at 30 fps. Would that be an ideal experience though? Of course not, that's essentially what Switch is offering at a price point near or higher than X1 and PS4.

However, I do think this is an acceptable way to play this game and if you want portability. But as an owner of various platforms that can play Doom better, I would opt for anything but Switch. I'm not a graphics whore either, I tend to play X1 games even though I own a PS4 which often has higher visual fidelity. But Doom on Switch is a big step back from other platforms.

If you liked CoD with a Wiimote, that's fine. I think Nintendo was stupid for not pushing that beyond Wii. But that has nothing to do with Doom on Switch.