Doom: The Dark Ages Review
The Doom reboot in 2016 was not the most complicated game in the world but it was everything it needed to be. A straightforward gameplay loop and a story that matters as little to the player as it does to the protagonist is basically all you can ask for from Doom, where it’s all about killing demons as priorities one, two, three, four and five. Doom Eternal did what all overly-ambitious sequels do and muddied the waters with more emphasis on the story and a ridiculous amount of options in combat. These options led many players to either suffer from choice paralysis or just hit every button on their keyboard at once, and by the end felt more like you were answering multiple-choice questions rather than playing a video game. Now we have Doom: The Dark Ages, which has decided to go the “third game prequel” route while burdened by…