00:00The Doom the Dark Ages Revelations expansion picks up soon after the base game.
00:04The Slayer ventures into Hell to take on the very worst it has to offer.
00:07He gets his ass kicked, then summarily punted into purgatory.
00:11Beaten and bruised, he has to rip and tear his way out of Hell's wastebasket,
00:15and this time he can't hide behind a shield.
00:18No, really, a big bad guy literally rips it in half in the opening level.
00:23Revelations is about the Slayer reclaiming his apex status in the mortal realm,
00:28but it's also about it reclaiming the best aspects of Doom.
00:32Enter the Chainspear, a new appendage for the Slayer that immediately upstages the shield
00:37on all fronts by reintroducing layers of mobility back into the series.
00:42The Slayer can plunge the spear into enemies and geometry to yank himself towards them,
00:47but crucially his trajectory is controlled by camera movement.
00:50That means he can hook a guy from across an arena, aim up or left or right,
00:55and turn demons into his personal catapult.
00:58It's simple, fun, and immediately more expressive than anything I ever accomplished
01:02with the shield in the base game.
01:04Revelations is an unforgettable expansion that justifies the Dark Ages as an idea,
01:09and you shouldn't sleep on it.
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