Games that are a bit like Doom but not actually Doom have a chequered history. While few remember Blood or Painkiller, there are those games like Serious Sam that refuse to die. ‘Demons with guns that run at you’ is a fertile furrow to grow games in, turns out.
Enter three-person Scottish developer Damage State, which has hitched its plough to id’s. In you play as, well, Scathe, an enforcer of the legions of Hell forged from the earth by the Divine Creator. That’s quite a thing to have embossed on your business card. For, y’know, reasons, Scathe is required to prove its worth by running through a maze and shooting everything that gets in its way. There’s lava, a biomechanical feel to the bad guys (the influence of the Arch-Vile, Mancubus, Lost Souls, Sonic the Hedgehog, and the flying things from the first Avengers movie are clear) and some skittering spider things. So far, so .
