Doom Eternal To Have An Old-School 'Centred Weapon' Option

This article was originally written for TheNintendoVillage.com, a website I founded and ran from 2018 to 2021.


Those of you who played the original shooters back in the day - including the first Doom games - will remember your weapon being smack bang in the middle of the screen. Modern FPS’ have since shifted the gun to the left or right hand side of the screen.

Bethesda are rolling back the years with Doom Eternal though, and are allowing players to opt for an old-school ‘centred weapon’ option. They gave us a glimpse of it over on the game’s official Twitter page:

There’s something weird yet undeniably cool about seeing that arrangement in a modern FPS. Bethesda have really been leaning into Doom’s heritage lately, and this is another welcome nod to that illustrious past.

Will you be playing Doom Eternal this way? Let us know down in the comments!


Source: Twitter