Just as Doom Eternal took what worked in Doom 2016 and hyper-charged ... We approach them as almost a game within itself," notes Stratton. My hands-on with the Atlan mech is brief, amounting to little ...

The Doom series is the avant-garde of first-person shooter games and D oom: Eternal is literally the game that moms fear ...

Doom: The Dark Ages puts a new spin on the brutal first person shooter combat thanks to the addition of a shield, dragon, and hulking mech.

And when things escalate, you’ll pilot the Atlan, a massive 30-story mech used to battle colossal demonic threats. It’s a scale never before seen in the Doom franchise, aiming to keep the ...

That said, Doom: Eternal’s greater emphasis on story felt ... but another component of The Dark Ages’ grand scale are the Dragon and Atlan mech missions. While neither of the segments I ...

though it feels less pronounced as a concept than in Doom Eternal. Thumping gigantic demons in the face while in the Atlan mech, as well as stomping your way through bridges and over tanks ...

One of these is that the joy of mindlessly plowing through demons and exploding them like bloody piñatas remains eternal ... In contrast to both this and Doom: The Dark Ages' non-mech assisted gunplay ...

The last thing I expected Doom: The Dark Ages to remind me of was ... I was thrown into the cockpit of a Pacific Rim-like Atlan mech and asked to wrestle demonic kaiju. After that, I was soaring ...

While 2016’s Doom was focussed on run and gun, and 2020’s Doom Eternal evolved into jump and ... to ever emerge from a Hell portal. The Atlan assault mechs have only been teased in the past ...

The hub zone from Eternal is also gone in favor of a straightforward progression. The Doom Slayer will also have access to an Atlan mech and dragon mount for specific sequences to give some ...

Doom: The Dark Ages is similar to the last two titles id Software has released: the 2016 reboot and 2020’s Doom: Eternal ... fun if I could climb into an Atlan mech and Kaiju battle a demonic ...