Doom³

Moby ID: 14320

Windows version

The only possibly good thing about this game are the graphics, gameplay suffers a lot due to its boring exactly same level design.

The Good
Of course this game owned the best graphics for its time, and the fact that the engine didn't eat a lot of energy, which meant that we could play the game on high settings even on a not so powerful computer for that time, it ran very good. Audio is well done, atmospheric hellish sounds really creep sometimes, though the game isn't scary, and the monsters sound aggressive and brutal. The single player campaign though is mostly boring, it does have a few good moments in it and easter eggs in it make it sometimes funny.

The Bad
The games major flaw was that it didn't keep the atmosphere of the original games - monsters did look cool, but most changed dramatically by design, and didn't look so cool as they were in the original games. Another thing is the audio - when first playing the game, we hear a cool game theme song in the menu, which gives us a hope that we might hear some cool soundtracks in the background of the levels, but hell no! There are no soundtracks, which was one of the main things which made this game boring. But the biggest flaw of the game was probably the level design - about 96 % of the game is absolutely the f@#$ing same! And this also leaves a question - how do some people even consider this game scary? I mean - you always know where the monster comes out from, what can be so creepy then? Multiplayer was probably the last thing the developers came out with to put in it, or maybe they just tried to keep the feel of the original games in multiplayer? The thing is, we only got up to 4 player deathmatch modes, though it is fun for at least some time. Again another unexplainable thing in the game - is there no duck tape on mars? Why cant we attach flashlights to weapons and instead we have to walk only in a flashlight in one hand, just to get our asses owned by a monster when we couldn't swicth to a weapon in the right time. It doesn't make any sense!

The Bottom Line
For those who liked the original games - i wouldn't recommend this boring sequel, but if you are a fan of FPS games with a lot of hellish monsters and zombies in it, and if you love some good old old-school multiplayer, than this might be your game.

by Medicine Man (328) on January 4, 2009

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