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DOOM Eternal: Official Launch Trailer

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Hell’s final assault on humanity gets a release date launch trailer, and the Doom Slayer isn’t holding back.

Bethesda Softworks and id Software dropped the official launch trailer for DOOM Eternal ahead of its March 20, 2020 release, giving fans one last dose of demon-slaying carnage before the game hits shelves. The sequel to 2016’s acclaimed reboot picks up with humanity on the brink of annihilation in the year 2151, and the trailer wastes no time reminding everyone why the Doom Slayer is the only thing standing between Hell and total conquest of Earth.

• DOOM Eternal launches March 20, 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia, with a Nintendo Switch version planned for later.
• The trailer is scored by returning composer Mick Gordon and shows the Doom Slayer fighting across Hell-infested cities, otherworldly citadels, and alien terrain.
• New traversal and combat tools on display include the wrist-mounted retractable blade, shoulder equipment launcher, dash ability, and the Super Shotgun’s Meat Hook, alongside returning firepower like the BFG 9000 and the Crucible blade.

Trailer Reveals Key Plot Details

The footage moves fast and stays loud, leaning into the industrial score that’s become as much a signature of this franchise as the shotgun blasts themselves. The Doom Slayer tears through demonic legions on Earth and beyond, with the camera catching glory kills on the Mancubus and Arachnotron in between wider shots of collapsing cityscapes and Hell’s architecture bleeding into the terrestrial world. It’s the same tone id Software has been building since the 2016 reboot, just dialed up considerably.

What separates this trailer from earlier reveals is how much combat-system detail it packs in without slowing down. The Meat Hook, fired from the Super Shotgun, yanks the Slayer directly into a demon mid-fight. The shoulder-mounted equipment launcher and wrist blade give players options to manage crowds instead of just running and gunning. Anyone who’s been following the game’s evolution since its delay from a planned late-2019 window will notice this is the most mechanically dense the marketing has gotten.

The Demons Waiting on the Other Side

Two enemy types get real trailer real estate: the Marauder and the Doom Hunter. Both were introduced in earlier gameplay reveals as harder, more tactical fights than the series’ usual swarm-and-shred encounters, and their presence here signals id Software wants the launch trailer read as a difficulty statement as much as a hype reel. Pair that with the Mancubus and Arachnotron glory kills and the message is blunt: this is not a game where players coast through on muscle memory from 2016.

Raze Hell.

That two-word tagline closes the trailer, and it doubles as the entire pitch for the campaign and for Battlemode, the asymmetric multiplayer mode where one Doom Slayer takes on two player-controlled demons. Readers who want the deeper mechanical rundown, including systems the marketing doesn’t spell out, can check the companion breakdown at Doom Eternal: 10 Things The Game Doesn’t Tell You.

Platforms and the Road to Launch

Bethesda confirmed the game for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Stadia at launch, with the Switch port arriving on its own later timeline. That spread matters given how much of Bethesda’s current publishing strategy has leaned on Stadia as a day-one platform, a bet that sits alongside the company’s broader push covered in coverage like the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase recap. The launch trailer functions as the final marketing beat after a delay from late 2019 pushed the game into 2020, and it’s clearly built to close the gap between hype and shipping copies.

Three days out from launch, the only real question left is how fast speedrunners and Slayer Gate hunters tear through the campaign once review copies and day-one footage start circulating — because if the Marauder fights shown here are any indication, nobody’s clearing this on autopilot.