Doom: The Dark Ages serves as a prequel to 2016’s Doom and its sequel Doom Eternal, and tells the “epic cinematic origin story of the Doom Slayer’s rage”. But, even though it’s a prequel, don’t expect The Dark Ages to end with the Slayer being popped in a coffin.
As a reminder, 2016’s Doom opens with the Slayer lying in a coffin, before he swiftly breaks free from the chains binding him so he can shoot the faces off advancing baddies. It is quite the way to kick things off.
So, if The Dark Ages is going to set us up for Doom 2016, surely we already know how the upcoming game is going to end, right? Wrong!
“I mean, that would end the Dark Ages, the medieval chapter of the Doom saga. This is kind of like the Chronicles of the Slayer,” Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin told PC Gamer, when asked about potentially seeing the Slayer getting locked away.