With all that, is The Ancient Gods Part Two worth it? Absolutely. This time around, you’re going toe-to-toe with someone equal in strength and rip-and-tearability to the Doomslayer. Eternal’s final boss was a bit underwhelming - a fairly easy and quick-to-deal with demon. There are nearly ten phases to push through but checkpoints are dotted throughout, so it’s not the most arduous game around town. All the while, they heal and summon ghastly apparitions like the shielded sods in the base game, although these foes go down much easier and replenish your hammer uses. At first, it was a touch tedious - learning their various grueling and punishing patterns can take some time, and it requires you to really come to terms with the new melee weapon. I won’t spoil who’s behind the mask in the featured image (it’s best if you find that out firsthand) but duking it out with this final foe is a treat. Much like with Part One, the various new levels are wonderfully diverse, keeping things fresh every step of the way before culminating in one helluva boss fight. Old enemies have new weaknesses to the hammer - the shielded hound master can now be stunned with a ground-pound, for example - while new enemies need you to learn the mallet’s groove just to stand a chance. Each level feels carefully designed around this new synergy. The synergy between the freeze bomb and flamethrower transforms fights into a meticulous ballet that ends with the stage being crushed in a rage-fueled demolition display. Rather than slicing and dicing, you’re leaping and smashing.
You get a new weapon - the aforementioned Sentinel Hammer - which is the DLC’s answer to the now-unavailable sword you plunged into a big ugly demon during the base game. As such, Part Two feels like the second half of another game. They flow together like a sort of interim sequel, akin to Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty or Spider-Man: Miles Morales. It’d be weird to play either The Ancient Gods Part One or Two without the other. The Ancient Gods - Part One, abbreviated in-game as Ancient Gods 1 and commonly abbreviated by fans as TAG 1, is part one of two in The Ancient Gods, a two-part campaign extension to Doom Eternal. For the same price tag of £15.99, you get the following:
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