Doom: The Dark Ages, the superior sequel in the rebooted FPS series (sorry, not sorry, Eternal), is now 67% off thanks to id Software's 35th anniversary celebration

Doom: The Dark Ages, a game by id Software, image showing the Doom Slayer.

(Image credit: Future)

While id Software's rebooted Doom got me reaching for my Super Shotgun with suitably psychotic glee, I never warmed to Doom: Eternal. I know that for many gamers, it delivered the hyperfast bullet ballet they'd always wanted, but for me, it simply felt that far too much of Doom's DNA had been sacrificed in order to deliver it.

Rather than always ripping and tearing with wild abandon, you were always dodging and pirouetting with forced necessity. What happened to being knee deep in the dead? In Eternal, you were always soaring over them.

And now, thanks to id Software's 35th anniversary celebrations, Doom: The Dark Ages is over two-thirds off. I definitely rate this FPS, to the point that I'd personally recommend picking it up over Eternal, so I thought I would bring the discount to the wider PC gaming community's attention. The details can be found below, as well as information on additional discounts to both other games in the rebooted Doom series.

It's not only Doom: The Dark Ages that has been discounted in the id Software 35th anniversary celebrations, either. Both the rebooted Doom and Doom: Eternal are heavily price-slashed too, making it easier than ever to jump into the Doom Slayer's beastly shoes.

SIGIL II, Doom's sixth campaign episode, running on a modern PC gaming rig — (Image credit: Romero Games)

Prefer OG Doom? Then check out Sigil and Sigil II

Like the idea of some new Doom but would prefer new content for the original FPS experience? Then be sure to check out John Romero's recently released Sigil and Sigil II expansions. These new episodes deliver tons of deliciously devious Doom levels to fight through, and they come from the Doom design master himself. You can get both for free, but I'd recommend paying for the versions that come with the suitably excellent soundtracks by Buckethead and Thorr. Rip and tear my friends, rip and tear.

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Rob is editor of PC Gamer magazine and has been PC gaming since the early 1990s, an experience that has left him with a life-long passion for first person shooters, isometric RPGs and point and click adventures. Professionally Rob has written about games, gaming hardware and consumer technology for almost twenty years, and before joining the PC Gamer team was deputy editor of T3.com, where he oversaw the website's gaming and tech content as well its news and ecommerce teams. You can also find Rob's words in a series of other gaming magazines and books such as Future Publishing's own Retro Gamer magazine and numerous titles from Bitmap Books. In addition, he is the author of Super Red Green Blue, a semi-autobiographical novel about games and gaming culture. Rob loves riding motorbikes, too.

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