Re-listening to the podcast and hearing the talk around Doom: Eternal and being reminded what almost everyone at Giant Bomb was saying about Doom before it was released. When one of them said, "People were saying this about the melee kills" what it was is that they were saying those things too lol. I will also say that they clearly had a bunch of lore in place for Doom based on what we see in the game AND the stuff that was revealed in the amazing NoClip documentary.
For anyone curious ,this is the image of the Doom Slayer/Doom Marine with no helmet. I would say he looks more like Howie Long than Superman but maybe that's just me. I have a feeling that with something like that you aren't going to really please anyone. I have 0 reason to think Id won't knock it out of the park. I just hope they don't even bother with competitive mp and just do, maybe co-op, or something.
In my opinion, this looks like a pretty decent representation of classic Doom Guy (which is literally what it is). The battle damage looking one is pretty cool too. I was really expecting them to announce console versions of Quake Champions but it looks like they don't have immediate plans for that.
No, the Doom Slayer set that is on sale in the storefront is the Doom 3 marine. And has the Doom 3 marine head on it (that's the one with the gelled up black hair). Which is another head still than the one from the "classic" marine shown in your post. The one you show is unlocked by collecting all the lore scrolls for the Doom Slayer - and is based on the marine from the first Doom Game (from 1993).
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