Introduced throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase, Doom: The Darkish Ages is id Software program’s subsequent foray again into hell. Doom: The Darkish Ages is a medieval spin on the Doom franchise, taking the Doom Slayer again to the start. It’s coming to Xbox Sport Move on day one, someday in 2025.
Microsoft’s first trailer for Doom: The Darkish Ages exhibits the frenetic, precision gameplay we’ve come to anticipate from the franchise — there’s plenty of blasting and taking pictures and a chainsaw. Oh, and the Doom Slayer can journey a dragon?
Sunday’s announcement is the primary official information of Doom: The Darkish Ages, following an Insider Gaming report from Might. Bethesda Softworks and id Software program launched Doom Everlasting in 2020. Launching alongside Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Doom Everlasting was a serious hit. The sport offered three million digital copies in its launch month, in response to gross sales numbers from Superdata. That’s thrice the variety of copies 2016’s Doom offered in its first month, per GamesIndustry.biz. id Software program launched two items of DLC for Doom Everlasting: The Historic Gods: Half One and The Historic Gods: Half Two.
In 2021, forward of The Historic Gods: Half Two, Doom Everlasting recreation director Hugo Martin spoke to Polygon about the way forward for the sequence — maybe hinting on the medieval setting: “Might we inform a narrative about when [the Doom Slayer] first got here to that place with the Sentinels, nearly like a extra medieval setting, a fantasy setting?” Martin mentioned. “I believe as you play the DLC, too, you’ll see numerous hints of what we might do shifting ahead. Possibly even sooner or later. Once more, our hero is considerably timeless — I imply, actually, he’s immortal. So we might inform every kind of tales.”
