DOOM: The Dark Ages launches in May, and when it does it’ll launch without any sort of multiplayer mode. In a meeting with select members of the press ahead of the Xbox Developer Direct event on Thursday, ID Software explained the decision for not including it this time around.
“We made that decision early so that we could really just go all in on the campaign,” executive producer Marty Stratton said via Eurogamer. “It’s our largest, most expansive, most epic campaign ever and we’re just really happy with the decision.
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“It’s been awesome to have the team focused just on polishing and finishing the campaign.”
Game Director Hugo Martin added: “That’s why we were able to put the dragon and the Atlan [mech] in. I mean, these are things we wanted to do in the game for, like, multiple games now, but couldn’t, because we had a multiplayer component – which we loved – but really, it was meant to just focus on the single player campaign and just level up that experience for players.”
DOOM: The Dark Ages is a prequel to 2016’s DOOM, and is the third game in the modern trilogy. The game launches May 15 for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. It’ll also be available day one on Xbox Game Pass for those with Game Pass PC or Game Pass Ultimate memberships.
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