DOOM: The Dark Ages

Doomguy is now a walking tank and it's amazing. (100%ed on Ultra Violence on launch) The 'difficult 3rd album' labels this game has attracted isn't purely because it's the 3rd game. This is still an amazing game and some of my complaints might make it sound worse than it is, but I have some issues I'm still getting a feel for how excited or not I am to replay this later. Mostly because of flow killing issues. Flow-killing issues such as: - Ledges have strange hitboxes when you stand on them causing you to sometimes get stuck, float weirdly (this also happened for barriers on uneven terrain) or bounce off them when hitting right on the edge from a height - Enemies sometimes use their range attacks when you're right in their face for no reason causing them to get quick and cheap hits and mess with your flow - Certain parry-able melee attacks would cause the enemies to go through me and miss or push around me and hit me in the back/side despite me timing the parry correctly, thus damaging me when it shouldn't - Enemies get stuck on environment objects and thus can't hit you (sometimes only for a short while and sometimes until I killed them) - The sound balancing isn't anywhere near as good as it should be so fodder enemies behind me would hit me from off screen because I had no way of knowing they were there - When blocking damage with the shield you take no damage but the UI still lights up like you did which can be confusing in moment to moment scenarios and whilst still getting used to the game - Pressing sprint doesn't always mean you'll sprint. Certain instances like landing or jumping more twice or more in a row means doomguy has to get settled or something before he can sprint again. The solution should be to turn auto-sprint on but there will still be times where you're not sprinting when you should be, so all this does is start you sprinting at the earliest possible frame after doomguy settles back into the movement. This can be a big problem in platforming or avoiding floor based hurt-zones - You can't parry whilst swapping weapons meaning you have to wait till an aggressive enemy is staggered before swapping (yes increasing the game speed is a workaround but that affects so many aspects of the game it's not an actual solution to that problem) - You can clip through walls by leaning against them whilst holding the weapon-select-wheel button - Enemies can still miss you with their parry-able attacks despite you movement that would normally mean...

Easily 5 out of 5. I cannot put this game down. It is so good. Possibly the best Doom game to date. Love it. Every Doom game brings something new, exciting to the franchise. Doom The Dark Ages is no exception. New combat mechanics are great. I really like the shield. Story and cut scenes are nice addition to the game as well. Overall a lot of action in this doom game. The game is long so be prepared to spend a little bit of time with this one. I am glad that the developer took some risks with t his one. Pure entertainment

DIfferent mechanics of trilogy game but still doom.

I love Doom, esp the earlier ones. But this wasn't fun for me. I prefer Doom 3 (before they made a new Doom 3 with you holding a torch).

The only doom i could not finish. Use your shield to parry and throw for qte events