But, like we said, it doesn’t matter. Doom is the game that popularised first person shooters, back in 1993, and it’s about one thing and one thing only: shooting demons from Hell.

Like an avenging spirit, he tears through swarms of demons in a burst of blood and gore. This is the essence of Doom, now given a feudal twist in Doom: The Dark Ages.

The interplay of shooting, shield-parrying, and melee is unrelenting. That's why, as mentioned, Doom: The Dark Ages gets better the easier you make it.

And, like Halo, the novelty here is that the excellent core shooter systems are given new context in much larger spaces. You must rethink the effective range of every single weapon in your arsenal.

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With sci-fi weaponry like Cyberpunk 2077, Titanfall-style wall running, and brutal FPS combat à la Doom, Metal Eden is shaping up to be a real treat. Revealed earlier this year, it's a shooter I ...

The boomer shooter brigade has been short on ammo lately, having seemingly run out of '90s classics to spiritually succeed, and we're still a month out from Doom: The Dark Ages, the big FPS of 2025.

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