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The Doom Slayer is back with a vengeance in Doom: The Dark Ages. This feudal-flavoured first-person frenzy promises revamped combat and revitalized visuals for current-gen consoles and PCs. In broad strokes, this is a strong technical success but how well does the game play out across PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X and especially the horsepower-challenged Xbox Series S? In all cases, users are getting a good experience, but the premium Xbox console seems to get the smoothest experience overall - even compared to PS5 Pro - while the junior Xbox is still recognisably the same game, but with very low rendering resolutions and a haircut to some visual features.
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Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Jessica writes a last entry before casting off into the world of freelance journalism - you are a star, Jessica, and we'll miss you - Bertie ponders his variable states of mind, and Tom O ponders the untapped potential of PlayStation VR2.
There are only so many ways a game can begin, or so I thought. I've seen so many beginnings they've all begun to merge into one, and because of it, they've begun to collectively fade from view. A game will begin and a loved one will be taken, and then I'll probably utter a vow of revenge and set about trying to realise it. Something like that. Honestly, I've stopped paying much attention. I don't know who the characters are at the beginning, or the places we're in, so I let myself be swept along until things start to make sense, to sink in, and sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
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