The Cosmic Realm will be a dangerous new area for the Doom Slayer, and it’ll look even better on PlayStation 5 Pro.
DOOM: The Dark Ages is a single-player campaign with three core pillars: story, combat and exploration. Id Software believes this is the best DOOM game they’ve ever made. They gave it everything they had, leaving no feature unpolished: they have 22 levels of incredible first-person shooter single player combat; tons of gameplay innovations like the shield saw, flail, and new crazy guns; and an awesome roller coaster of an action story to carry you through to the end. You also have huge worlds to explore.
One of them is totally unique for a DOOM game, a space they’ve never been to before, but a world they’ve been wanting to bring into the DOOM universe for a long time: the Cosmic Realm. You will witness the cyclopean architecture of this Lovecraftian dimension as you explore its darkest secrets and battle its most insane enemies. An unholy alliance has been forged between Hell and the Cosmic Realm. You’ll have to experience the story to find out why – but this partnership has created a new host of enemies for the Slayer to confront. Enemies like the Cosmic Baron. A twin-bladed brute, he attacks with relentless pressure, and at range he unleashes a barrage of psionic attacks that can block your projectiles and rip through your precious health. But fear not, for embedded in his attacks are parry windows that a skilled Doom Slayer should be able to exploit, should he or she be brave enough to face him.
All the strongest enemies require this kind of aggression. You’ll weave your way through a maze of projectiles, just like in classic Doom, then go toe-to-toe with the biggest demons ever created. Once you’ve dispatched the Cosmic Baron, watch out for the mighty Cacodemon, a cross-dimensional hybrid newly designed for this game. This floating mass of telepathic terror will immobilize you with its advanced shield attacks and cripple you with its tentacle strikes if you allow it to get too close. You can counter these enemy attacks with a new weapon, an ancient tool from dimensions beyond our own: the Reaver Chainshot, a brutal ballistic iron mace of death.
Fire it quickly to unleash a light assault on a single enemy, or hold the trigger down to charge its chaos sphere and unleash vicious long-range melee blows that turn your enemies’ insides to demonic pulp. This weapon is unlike anything you’ve ever seen in an Id Software game; it takes melee combat to a whole new, merciless level of bone-crushing destruction. The developers think you’ll find your time in the Cosmic Realm filled with intrigue and bloody, bone-crunching mayhem. And it will look amazing on your PlayStation 5, with cutting-edge ludicrous mode graphics powered by the all-new id Tech 8, allowing them to put more content on screen than ever before – bigger rooms with longer views, more enemies to fight, more destruction, better feedback, a better overall gaming experience. They have fully dynamic lighting powered by ray tracing, which has allowed them to iterate faster during development and empowered the team to create better art more efficiently. It’s a purpose-built engine with performance that’s buttery smooth at 60fps on PlayStation – this game will play as good as it looks.
The footage below was taken from the PlayStation 5 Pro. DOOM: The Dark Ages is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC on May 15. The game will also be available on Xbox Game Pass.
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