Kicking off this evening’s Xbox showcase, we got a look at Doom: The Dark Ages, and oh my days, it looks awesome.
“Before he became a hero,” the video begins, “he was the super weapon of gods and kings.” And what a super weapon he was. But, don’t let me tell you. You can check out Doom: The Dark Ages’ reveal trailer for yourself below.
Doom: The Dark Ages will serve as a prequel to 2016’s Doom and Doom Eternal. It is described as a single-player action FPS that “tells the epic cinematic origin story of the Doom Slayer’s rage”, and of course, it is being developed by id Software.
The Doom64 Doomguy is also the original Doomguy. He was the one who was reassigned to Mars as punishment for punching his superior officer, was the only man left standing after the original demon invasion incident on Phobos and further went on to clear out Demios while it was hovering over hell, and then descended to hell itself (Doom 1). He then returned to Earth where, upon discovering that the demons killed his pet rabbit (along with a majority chunk of humanity) goes on a roaring rampage of revenge through “your hometown” (per Doom 1 and Doom 2’s text crawls) and then hell again to ultimately take out the Icon of Sin. In Doom 64 he was sent back by the military to deal with the Mother Demon who was apparently resurrecting all the demons and monsters from before. The Doom 64 Doomguy is explicitly the original one, and was recalled specifically because he survived the previous episodes and had past experience in killing demons real good.
After the Mother Demon’s defeat the Doomguy apparently remains in hell with no way back and continues slaughtering demons and the undead until he is kicked/portaled out by a demon in hell to Argent D’Nur (in a bit added to Doom 64 from Doom Eternal) and ultimately inducted into the ranks of the Sentinels. Then Doom 2016 and Eternal happen.
Doom 3 is unrelated to this entire arc, somehow.
I wonder what story shenanigans they will use to say it’s the same guy from Vikings times
I had to guess, since the trailer doesn’t really specify, this game is probably supposed to be set in the time between the Night Sentinels find the Doomguy and when he winds up in that casket dug up by the UAC. I imagine we will witness the title of “Doomslayer” being bestowed upon him in an inevitable and predictable cutscene midway through the game.
The trailer shows him being fired at a planet’s surface from a Makyr looking ship/satellite thing and we know the Night Sentinels were at some point soldiers of the Makyrs.
I’ve heard it said Doom 3 is sort of meant to be a Doom 1 remake - same story, just told in a more detailed, graphically-enabled way.
Pretty much, yeah