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Critics Mostly Like 'Doom: The Dark Ages,' But It's Not All Glory Kills

Critics are generally positive for 'Doom: The Dark Ages,' praising its melee-heavy combat and atmosphere, but calling out pacing, overly simple story, and slow early hours.

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DOOM: The Dark Ages review and Metacritic score roundup — Does Xbox have its GOTY contender with this long-awaited shooter?

At long last, DOOM: The Dark Ages is finally here — but is the highly anticipated prequel the Xbox Game of the Year contender everyone's hoping it is? Here's what the reviews are saying, and how it's scoring on Metacritic.

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Doom: The Dark Ages review – id Software gets medieval in a dramatic rewrite of the shooter’s rules

This prequel takes a blunt force trauma approach to problem-solving and demon-killing, with a slower pace but more spectacular weaponry

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DOOM Is Back, And It’s A Smashing Good Time

'Doom: The Dark Ages' is a much more agreeable game than its predecessor Doom Eternal. Here's our review after dozens of hours playing.

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I spent 18 hours ripping and tearing through Doom: The Dark Ages and it left me yearning for a return to Eternal’s movement

Doom: The Dark Ages is another excellent FPS campaign from id Software, but it doesn’t quite reach the high bar set by the previous two entries.

TechRadar

I spent a week playing Doom: The Dark Ages for my review, and it does the unthinkable – this retro icon is relevant again

id Software has deftly redesigned Doom for a new generation.

Creative Bloq

Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine

Though once path tracing makes an appearance, all bets will probably be off.

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I love DOOM: The Dark Ages' brutal dark fantasy so much that I'm awarding it a perfect score — eager for more

DOOM: The Dark Ages shakes up the established formula, inventing awesome new ways to rip and tear in a dark fantasy setting. Here's my review.

Windows Central

Doom The Dark Ages is my favorite kind of nightmare — this is how it runs on an RTX 5090 gaming laptop

I played Doom: The Dark Ages on an RTX 5090 gaming laptop, and here’s what happened.

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Humble's latest bundle gets you every Doom game, a discount on Doom: The Dark Ages and some Wolfenstein as a treat for less than $30

More Doom than you can shake a chainsaw at.

PC Gamer

What's a boomer shooter – and is it even the right term?

It seems the silly gaming genre description is here to stay.

Creative Bloq

Doom: The Dark Ages has a new official trailer, and at this point id Software and Bethesda are just holding me down and pouring Doom lore over my head

Please, spare me (the details)

GamesRadar

Doom: The Dark Ages — Release date, trailers & everything we know

More than five years after Doom Eternal, we’re once again ready to rip and tear through demons in Doom: The Dark Ages.

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I played DOOM: The Dark Ages — it was fantastic ... *mostly.*

I recently had the privilege of going hands-on with a pre-launch build of DOOM: The Dark Ages, which is somehow even more metal than its predecessors.

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Doom: The Dark Ages' team found new inspiration from the original Doom: "We play it at the start of every project"

Interview | "It's like the Mona Lisa to us": Doom: The Dark Ages' Hugo Martin talks revisiting the 1993 Doom, and how it inspired the team to evolve this time around

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Doom games in order: Chronological and release date

With Doom: The Dark Ages around the corner, now is the perfect time to chainsaw your way through all the Doom games in order.

PC Gamer

Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because 'StarCraft sold 3 million copies in Korea'

"Once someone simply repeats a previous argument, it's clear they are no longer functioning from logic or intelligence."

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‘We just tried to make what we thought was cool’: the story of Monolith Productions

As the 30-year-old studio behind many innovative and beloved video games shuts down, its founders, fans and designers discuss what made it so special

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DOOM: The Dark Ages — Release date, composer, and everything you need to know

Here's everything you need to know about DOOM: The Dark Ages, from the gameplay to the composer.

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The Slayer's dragon in DOOM: The Dark Ages has a name, and I want to protect them

The cybernetic dragon the Doom Slayer rides in DOOM: The Dark Ages is named Serrat, and I want to protect them.

TechRadar

Doom: The Dark Ages' director confirms DLC is in the works and says the game won't end the way 2016's Doom begins: 'If we took it all the way to that point, then that would mean that we couldn't tell any more medieval stories'

Doom: The Dark Ages might be a prequel, but iD Software confirms it won't end the way 2016's Doom begins.

PC Gamer

Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at first

It's not AI, it's just a guy named Henry.

PC Gamer

'I think only the shotguns are the same,' says Doom: The Dark Ages director, otherwise the guns are brand-new or significantly transformed

I really like the gun that pins enemies to walls.

PC Gamer

Doom: The Dark Ages already sneakily revealed its 'new Marauder,' and the devs hope he'll be just as challenging, but a little less frustrating

He's all about parrying instead of weapon switching.

GamesRadar

Doom: The Dark Ages developers go back to the OG 1993 FPS for inspiration: "Every time you look at it, you learn something new"

id Software find new inspiration in an old classic

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