Hiya from id Software program! That is Hugo Martin, recreation director on Doom: The Darkish Ages, releasing Could 15 on PlayStation 5—it’s proper across the nook, I can’t consider it.
In case you’ve been following alongside, you already know that Doom: The Darkish Ages is a premium single-player marketing campaign that includes three core pillars of engagement: story, fight, and exploration. I’m guessing you’re studying this since you wish to hear one thing new, one thing concerning the recreation nobody else has heard about. Nicely, I’ve obtained a very good one for you.
We expect Doom: The Darkish Ages is one of the best Doom recreation we’ve ever made (however that’ll be so that you can resolve). We gave this the whole lot we had, left no characteristic unpolished: we have now 22 ranges of unbelievable FPS single-player fight; tons of gameplay improvements just like the Protect Noticed, flail, and new loopy weapons; and an superior curler coaster experience of an motion story to hold you thru to the end.
AND—we have now enormous worlds so that you can discover.
One in every of them is completely distinctive for a Doom recreation, an area we’ve by no means been to however a world we’ve needed to include into the Doom universe for some time: the Cosmic Realm. You’ll bear witness to the cyclopean structure of this Lovecraftian dimension as you discover its darkest secrets and techniques and battle its most insane enemies.
An unholy union between Hell and the Cosmic Realm has been fashioned. You’re going to should expertise the story to seek out out why—however this partnership has given start to a brand new host of adversaries for the Slayer to confront.
Enemies just like the Cosmic Baron. A twin-bladed brute, he assaults with relentless strain, and at vary he releases a flurry of psionic assaults that may block your projectiles and rip by your valuable well being. However worry not, as a result of embedded in his assaults are parry home windows {that a} expert Doom Slayer ought to have the ability to exploit, ought to she or he be courageous sufficient to face and combat him.
All of the strongest foes in Doom: The Darkish Ages require this type of aggression. You’ll weave your method by a maze of projectiles, similar to in traditional Doom, to then go toe-to-toe with the largest demons we’ve ever created.
After you’ve dispatched the Cosmic Baron, watch out, as a result of rising above the darkish horizon you’ll discover the highly effective Cacodemon, a hybrid between the 2 dimensions and newly designed for this recreation. This floating mass of telepathic terror will immobilize you along with his superior protect assaults and cripple you along with his tentacle strikes, must you permit him to get shut.
However—you possibly can counter these enemies’ assaults with a brand new weapon, an historical instrument from dimensions past our personal: the Reaver Chainshot, a brutal ballistic iron mace of loss of life.
Hearth it shortly to unleash a light-weight assault to a single foe, or maintain down the set off to cost its Chaos Sphere and unleash vicious long-range melee strikes, turning your enemies’ insides into demonic pulp. This weapon is not like something we’ve ever had in an id recreation; it brings the Doom: The Darkish Ages’ incredible melee fight to a complete new cruel degree of bone-breaking destruction. The sound, the design, the visuals, this weapon is superb and also you’re gonna love utilizing it in battle.
There are such a lot of extra secrets and techniques to disclose and legends to forge right here on this new world we’ve crafted for you. I feel you’ll discover your time within the Cosmic Realm to be filled with intrigue and bloody, bone-crunching mayhem. And it’ll look superb in your PlayStation 5, that includes cutting-edge, ludicrous mode graphics powered by the all-new idTech 8.
The improvements on this newest model of idTech permit us to have extra content material seen on-screen than ever earlier than—larger areas with longer views; extra enemies to combat; extra destruction; higher suggestions; a greater total gaming expertise. We have now absolutely dynamic lighting powered by raytracing, which has allowed us to iterate quicker throughout improvement and empowered our staff to make higher artwork extra effectively. idTech 8 is a purpose-built engine with efficiency that’s buttery-smooth at 60 fps on PlayStation—this recreation will play each bit nearly as good because it appears to be like.
And there’s lots extra to speak about, however we needed to offer Sony followers one thing particular as we head into launch. We can not wait to share this expertise with you. It’s the greatest and most full, epic recreation we have now ever made at id and it performs incredible on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Professional. There will probably be extra to discover, weapons and skills to unlock, and demons to crush in Doom: The Darkish Ages when it releases on Could 15. (You can too begin slaying as early as Could 13 if you buy the Premium Version!*)
From all of us at id—thanks a lot in your time and continued help.
*Precise playtime is dependent upon buy date and relevant time zone variations, topic to doable outages.
