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00:00Hello, everyone out there in Sony-land.
00:10This is Hugo Martin, Game Director on Doom The Dark Ages,
00:14reporting to you live from the offices here at id Software.
00:17Well, actually, it's a recording, but that's okay.
00:20We're here today to talk about Doom The Dark Ages,
00:23releasing May 15th on PlayStation 5.
00:26And that's right around the corner. I can't believe it.
00:29I think this is the best Doom game we've ever made.
00:33We gave this everything we've had. We left no feature unpolished.
00:37We've got 22 levels of incredible FPS single-player combat.
00:42Tons of gameplay innovations like the shield saw, flail, crazy guns,
00:48with huge worlds to explore, and an awesome rollercoaster ride
00:53of an action story to carry you through to the finish.
00:57This will be an epic odyssey through a savage world full of powerful villains,
01:01crazy locations, and awesomely brutal weapons.
01:05But if you've been following along, you've heard all this before.
01:08You know Doom The Dark Ages is a premium single-player campaign
01:11featuring three core pillars of engagement.
01:14Combat, story, and exploration.
01:17I'm guessing you tuned in because you want to hear something new.
01:21Something about the game no one else has heard about.
01:24Well, I've got a good one for you.
01:30We have, as I said, fantastic worlds to explore throughout the story.
01:34One of them is totally unique for a Doom game.
01:37A space we've never been to, but a world I've wanted to incorporate into the Doom Universe for a while.
01:44The Cosmic Realm.
01:47You will bear witness to the Cyclopean architecture of this Lovecraftian dimension
01:57as you explore its darkest secrets and battle its most insane enemies.
02:03An unholy union between Hell and the Cosmic Realm has been formed.
02:08Why, you ask?
02:09Well, you're going to need to watch the story to find out.
02:12No spoilers here today.
02:13But this partnership has given birth to some new type of adversaries for the Slayer to fight.
02:18Enemies like the Cosmic Baron.
02:20Twin-bladed Brute, he attacks with relentless pressure
02:23and at range releases a flurry of psionic attacks that can block your projectiles
02:28and rip through your precious health.
02:30But fear not because embedded in his attacks are parry windows
02:33that a skilled Doom Slayer should be able to exploit
02:36should he or she be brave enough to stand and fight him.
02:40All the strongest foes in Dark Ages require this kind of aggression.
02:44You weave your way through the maze of projectiles just like in classic Doom
02:48to then go toe-to-toe with the biggest demons we've ever created.
02:56And after you've dispatched with the Cosmic Baron,
02:59be careful because rising above the dark horizon,
03:02you'll find the powerful Cacodemon,
03:04a hybrid between the two dimensions and newly designed for this game.
03:08This floating mass of telepathic terror will stun players with his advanced shield attacks
03:13and cripple you with his tentacle strikes should you allow him to get close.
03:17But you can counter these enemies' assaults with a new weapon,
03:20born from the mollusk swamps of the Carthul marshes,
03:23an ancient tool from dimensions beyond our own.
03:26The Reaver Shot.
03:32A brutal ballistic iron mace of death.
03:35Fire it quickly to unleash a light attack to a single foe.
03:39Hold down the trigger to charge the Chaos Sphere
03:41and unleash brutal long-range melee strikes,
03:44turning your enemies' insides into demonic pulp.
03:47This weapon is unlike anything we've ever had in an id game.
03:50It brings the fantastic melee combat featured in Doom the Dark Ages
03:54to a whole new brutal level of bone-breaking destruction.
03:58The sound, the design, the visuals, this weapon is amazing.
04:02There are so many more secrets to reveal and legends to forge here in this new world we've crafted for you.
04:12I think you'll find your time here to be full of intrigue and bloody bone-crunching mayhem.
04:18And it will all look amazing on your PlayStation 5,
04:21featuring cutting-edge, ludicrous mode graphics powered by the all-new IdTech 8.
04:27The innovations in this latest version of IdTech allows us to have more content visible on-screen than ever before.
04:34Bigger spaces with longer views, more enemies to fight, more destruction, better feedback, a better gaming experience.
04:43We have fully dynamic lighting powered through ray tracing,
04:46which has allowed us to iterate faster during development, empowering our team to make better art faster.
04:52IdTech 8 is a purpose-built engine made specifically for Doom the Dark Ages,
04:57with performance that's buttery smooth at 60 frames per second.
05:01This game will play as good as it looks.
05:08And there's so much more, to be honest, that we still have yet to share,
05:11but we just wanted to give the Sony fans something special as we head into launch.
05:15We cannot wait to share this experience with you.
05:18It is the biggest and most complete epic game we have ever made at Id.
05:23It plays fantastic on the PlayStation 5 and, of course, the PlayStation 5 Pro.
05:28There will be so many things to see, abilities to unlock and demons to crush in Doom the Dark Ages,
05:35when it releases on May 15th.
05:37So from all of us at Id, thank you so much for your time and continued support.
05:42See you soon.