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Doom: The Dark Ages hits PC, PS5 and Xbox on May 15

Doom: The Dark Ages is the largest Doom game id Software has ever made, but to be perfectly clear and possibly assuage some fears, it’s not open-world.

It’s a single-player sandbox experience with an emphasis on exploration, bloodshed and upgrading skill trees, introducing massive mech battles and a ridable cyber dragon that spits fire on command. In fact, the directive for developers was to edit down everything — controls, levels, menus, upgrade paths — in order to emulate the reactive rush that made the original Doom games so addictive. The shield saw is a critical tool, allowing players to parry and block incoming attacks, and also acting as a boomerang-style projectile that can embed itself into enemies to rip through their demonic flesh.

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