The Dark Ages’ Is The Most Fun I’ve Had With A First-Person Shooter In Years
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DOOM: The Dark Ages Credit: Id Software Holy hell, DOOM: The Dark Ages is nightmarish good fun. It’s a very different beast from previous entries in the long-running series, but it just might be the most fun I’ve ever had playing a DOOM game. It’s certainly the most fun I’ve had in a single-player first-person shooter in a very, very long time. I’m very picky when it comes to shooters, but this one is pure fun. I put it up there with 2016’s DOOM or Titanfall 2’s excellent campaign (which also came out in 2016). The game is just wildly entertaining. There’s a lot of story here, as you fight swathes of space demons across multiple planets. I’ve never played a DOOM title with this much narrative meat. It’s a galaxy-spanning war for survival that takes you between mission after mission, each with its own flare or gimmick. This is all about lore-building, painting in the background of the DOOM universe. If you’re not interested in the story, you can just ignore it, but there’s a lot here for fans who want more. Every new stage is a rush. At times, you’re blasting your way through a pretty standard level, hunting down keys to open up new pathways, killing everything that stands in your way. Other stages are much more open-world, with multiple objectives to knock out in whatever order, and lots of optional areas to explore. Not all of these are just you against the demons. In some, you’ll hop on the back of a dragon and assault enemy outposts from the air, or strap into a skyscraper-tall mech and blast mega-demons to smithereens. These feel almost like arcade-style missions. There is endless variety and tons of secrets to find – some a lot harder to track down than…
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