Doom: The Dark Ages is for lovers and slayers

If you've spent immoderate clip connected the internet, you whitethorn person seen the "what I expected vs. what I got" memes. If I could marque 1 for Doom: The Dark Ages, successful my expected file I'd notation the earlier Doom games - Eternal and the 2016 brushed reboot of the franchise. But for the "what I got" column, there'd beryllium an unexpected mix. Those earlier Doom games would inactive beryllium there, arsenic successful astir respects The Dark Ages is precise overmuch similar its predecessors. But I'd besides propulsion successful Band of Brothers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pacific Rim, The Necronomicon, and a postulation of the champion bodice-ripper romance books lit tin provide.

For The Dark Ages, id Software takes the communicative mode backmost to the aboriginal days, to a clip earlier the demons invade Mars and Earth. The Doomguy, known arsenic the Slayer, is simply a supersoldier enhanced by aliens who person styled themselves arsenic humanity's gods. When those gods and their quality collaborators are besieged by the legions of Hell, the Slayer gets to doing what helium does best: ripping and tearing until it is done.

The Slayer has an arsenal of weapons to assistance him successful his quest. The series' time-honored favorites, similar the ace shotgun, marque an appearance. But successful this old-timey preq …

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