Doom³

The Good
Many years have passed since the first day I loaded original doom on a nightmare amount of floppies on my old clunky 386, so when I heard doom 3 was coming out I just knew I was in for something special, for a few moments I had a deja vu experience of back 10 years ago when I first ever played doom. So fired up the game, was very impressed with the intro screen, at first I thought the little screen with all the mars info was actually some fmv and to my surprise was actually full fmv texture on an object in the game, that’s one thing that really impresses me is the texture detail, full animated fmv's on the screens looks very cool, the bump mapping is superb and objects with specular giving that nice shining look. The game play is what I would call bog standard to what most games play like today, there is only so much u can do with a mouse and keyboard in this type of game, look up down left right and fire. The interface is ok, though first time playing got my ass whipped because even though you are viewing your pda enemies can still attack you. As someone else posted on a review on here I do agree allot has been influenced by system shock 2, to me its like cross playing between ss2 and a first person resident evil clone, with all the zombies n stuff. Performance in general for this game is very good, I have tried this game on lower systems and the frame rate is pretty decent, unlike that catastrophe of Deus Ex 2 invisible war.

The Bad
Far too short, I remember the earlier dooms taking me months to complete, I completed this in about a day. Even though allot of people think this game is a rip off from other games I have to disagree, how can doom rip off other fps, if it wasn’t for doom you wouldn’t have the likes of half life, or all the other DOOM clones, even to this day we refer to fps games as a doom style game, whether it be system shock, deus ex, unreal, etc they are all doom style games, the original doom is just the father of them all.

The Bottom Line
If u want some good scary resident evil-esq in first person perspective then this is for you, if you’re expecting the same doom experience of yesteryear then you will be disappointed.