Hi there from id Software program! That is Hugo Martin, sport director on Doom: The Darkish Ages, releasing Might 15 on PlayStation 5—it’s proper across the nook, I can’t imagine 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 need to hear one thing new, one thing concerning the sport nobody else has heard about. Properly, I’ve acquired a very good one for you.
We predict Doom: The Darkish Ages is the very best Doom sport we’ve ever made (however that’ll be so that you can determine). We gave this all the things we had, left no characteristic unpolished: we now have 22 ranges of unimaginable FPS single-player fight; tons of gameplay improvements just like the Defend 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 now have enormous worlds so that you can discover.
Considered one of them is completely distinctive for a Doom sport, 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 need to 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 via your treasured 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 battle him.
All of the strongest foes in Doom: The Darkish Ages require this sort of aggression. You’ll weave your means via 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 sport. This floating mass of telepathic terror will immobilize you along with his superior defend assaults and cripple you along with his tentacle strikes, do you have to permit him to get shut.
However—you possibly can counter these enemies’ assaults with a brand new weapon, an historic device from dimensions past our personal: the Reaver Chainshot, a brutal ballistic iron mace of loss of life.
Fireplace it shortly to unleash a lightweight 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 sport; it brings the Doom: The Darkish Ages’ unbelievable melee fight to an entire 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 stuffed 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—greater areas with longer views; extra enemies to battle; extra destruction; higher suggestions; a greater total gaming expertise. We’ve got totally dynamic lighting powered via raytracing, which has allowed us to iterate quicker throughout growth and empowered our workforce 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 sport will play each bit nearly as good because it appears to be like.
And there’s loads 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 largest and most full, epic sport we now have ever made at id and it performs unbelievable on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Professional. There shall 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 in your time and continued assist.
*Precise playtime depends upon buy date and relevant time zone variations, topic to doable outages.
