Good day from id Software program! That is Hugo Martin, recreation director on Doom: The Darkish Ages, releasing Might 15 on PlayStation 5—it’s proper across the nook, I can’t imagine it.
Should 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 in regards to the recreation nobody else has heard about. Properly, I’ve acquired a very good one for you.
We expect Doom: The Darkish Ages is the very best Doom recreation we’ve ever made (however that’ll be so that you can determine). We gave this every part we had, left no characteristic unpolished: we now have 22 ranges of unimaginable FPS single-player fight; tons of gameplay improvements just like the Protect Noticed, flail, and new loopy weapons; and an superior curler coaster trip of an motion story to hold you thru to the end.
AND—we now have large worlds so that you can discover.
Certainly one of them is completely distinctive for a Doom recreation, an area we’ve by no means been to however a world we’ve wished 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 search out out why—however this partnership has given beginning 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 stress, and at vary he releases a flurry of psionic assaults that may block your projectiles and rip by way of your treasured well being. However concern not, as a result of embedded in his assaults are parry home windows {that a} expert Doom Slayer ought to be capable of exploit, ought to she or he be courageous sufficient to face and struggle him.
All of the strongest foes in Doom: The Darkish Ages require this sort of aggression. You’ll weave your method by way of a maze of projectiles, similar to in basic 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, do you have to enable him to get shut.
However—you’ll be able to 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 dying.
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 in contrast to something we’ve ever had in an id recreation; it brings the Doom: The Darkish Ages’ improbable melee fight to an entire new cruel stage 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 enable us to have extra content material seen on-screen than ever earlier than—larger areas with longer views; extra enemies to struggle; extra destruction; higher suggestions; a greater total gaming expertise. We now have totally dynamic lighting powered by way of raytracing, which has allowed us to iterate quicker throughout improvement and empowered our group 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 pretty much as good because it appears.
And there’s loads extra to speak about, however we wished 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 largest and most full, epic recreation we now have ever made at id and it performs improbable on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Professional. There will likely be extra to discover, weapons and talents to unlock, and demons to crush in Doom: The Darkish Ages when it releases on Might 15. (You can too begin slaying as early as Might 13 if you are going to buy the Premium Version!*)
From all of us at id—thanks a lot to your time and continued assist.
*Precise playtime is dependent upon buy date and relevant time zone variations, topic to attainable outages.
