'Doom: The Dark Ages' review: Goodbye parkour, hello Shield Saw

Doom: The Dark Ages is a very different game than Doom Eternal, the most recent mainline entry in id Software’s demon-splattering series. While the Slayer in Eternal was a high-jumping, rail-swinging parkour machine, the Slayer in Doom: The Dark Ages moves like a bull on ice skates, heavy and meaty but incredibly agile. It feels good, and maybe more importantly, it feels right. <br /> The developers have made it clear that their goal with The Dark Ages is to emulate the original Doom more than its recent iterations, with the focus on building a concise combat loop and making the Slayer feel like a living monster truck, rather than a Ferrari. After 12 hours with the game, I can say they’ve done precisely that, plus they’ve made everything around the Slayer about 666 percent more [...]