DOOM: The Dark Ages | Developer_Direct 2025 (4K) | Coming May 15, 2025

Bethesda Softworks: "Join Marty, Hugo and the team at id Software as we journey into our first gameplay deep dive for DOOM: The Dark Ages!

Developed by id Software, DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story of the DOOM Slayer’s rage. In this third installment of the modern DOOM series, players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell.  

Coming May 15, 2025. Pre-order on Xbox Series X|S, PC or PlayStation 5."

[-Foxtrot]

I love Doom and think this one looks good but does anyone think this one looks a lot slower compared to Doom 2016 and Eternal?

For me Doom was never about protecting myself or deflecting hits with a shield so I'm quite confused at the choice here especially with a lot more focus on melee weapons. Even the glory kills seemed non-existent and a step back from the previous ones.

[sweatyrich]

This definitely looks slower (less frantic!) than the other two games.
To me, it plays a lot more like GoW, plus guns.

Depends what you prefer ...

[RaidenBlack]

They said in the video @3:10, they approached with 3 different styles for the 3 different modern Doom games. (well if you count Doom 3, then that's 4 different styles).
They said, Run n Gun, Jump n Shoot, and this time Stand n Fight (for Doom3 I include: Panic n Shoot)
And this time, there are sliders, of which one slider even lets you alter the whole speed of the game.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

It's not like they're super consistent with the gameplay in modern Doom games, I remember trying to play Eternal like 2016 at first and just getting steam rolled by enemies. Some people also found Eternal too overwhelming and hard, even though I finished it and the DLC, I would agree that the game can get very overwhelming at times.

It looks like they do have the Glory Kill system in some capacity, looking at this video, it's not as gory as the other games, but the enemies are dropping health and ammo after some kills, so I don't think they've completely done away with the system.

[RaidenBlack]

This is more Gothic Quake I than Doom1 or doom'16
...
Can't they just reboot Quake with this same art style but abit grittier & with a new Gothic storyline ~all while being run on idtech 8

[KwietStorm_BLM]

So the game costs 80 bucks.

[Fishy Fingers]

?

2 second google. $70.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

That's what it said when it went live. Now it's listed at 70.

[--Onilink--]

On Steam it’s still $80 for me, or at least the currency equivalent of $80

It does show $70 on the Xbox store, so it might be a mistake

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

$109 Aussie dollars, argh, that's a little painful, but I really enjoyed the last two Doom games.