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Big Flop

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: August 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Bring back Doom 2. A far superior game. Game is way to short. No place to run and gun. It's to dark for to long and to many shadows. No neat secret rooms or passage ways. Finding codes to open doors gets boring. No hard obstacles to overcome. Game crashes to desk top every ten minutes and did the same on friends computer. Give me my fifty dollars back please.

Finding Duct Tape is Very Useful

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has already been given countless extensive reviews so I will not beat a very dead and zombified horse. One of the major issues in this entire game is the inability to use the flashlight in conjunction with a weapon. The solution to this is simple. Find some duct tape to attach your flashlight to a few guns. This is remarkably easy to do:

1. Google "Duct Tape Mod Doom 3"
2. Download the tiny mod file.
3. Put it in the specified directory.
4. Enjoy a flashlight attachment for the shotgun and machine gun only.

The flashlight attachment doesn't make the game very cheap since it can only be attached to two weapons, and its a relatively narrow beam of light. Thus, the first two real weapons you find (shotty and machine gun) are even more useful in the late game and are thus balanced with the powerful late game weapons (Rocket launcher, Plasma Rifle, BFG9000) which can't have a flashlight attached to them.

Using duct tape on a few select weapons seems realistic enough. Any marine smart enough to survive Doom ]|[ probably is intelligent enough to find duct tape to help himself survive.

OK game when you fix Id's mistakes...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I obtained a copy of doom from a friend for free after he got fed up with not being able to run it. I have a pentium 4 2.8 ghz, 786 mb of DDR RAM, and a stock Geforce FX 5200 that came with the pc, so I figured I met the requirements but when I ran the game, it was choppy and slow. However, instead of spending $1500 worth of upgrades, I upgraded my video card's drivers and searched the internet for "Doom 3 performance tweak." In 10 seconds I found a tweak that increased performance about 30-50% (just by editing the .cfg file by the way.) So now the game runs perfectly with very little slowdown if any at all. Now onto the review.

Like most people I know, I was rather dissapointed with the gameplay. It got very tedious shooting the various monsters that appear throughout the game, even if they looked fantastic. Doom 3 was also way too dark; Having to switch between the flashlight and the weapons got old fast so I downloaded a mod that adds a flashlight to all of the guns (I think it was called varilight) which realy made the game playable.

The graphics were great when you set the level of detail to medium or higher. The Industrial environment that you spend pretty much the entire game in is cold and sterile, which realy suits doom well but I would have liked to see more martian landscape to add some diversity.

The sounds were eerie and had me on edge constantly. Especially when I played with my headphones on. The mood music and droning machinery realy created a nice atmosphere.

All in all, doom was ok, but you have to put a little effort into it to make it good enough. My recommendation is that you save your money for half-life 2

Doom 3 on a High End System

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, I want to mention I have a beast of a gaming system. 3.2 GHZ, 512 MB Cosair, Nvidia GForce FX 5900, etc.

Basically I am running the game on the highest settings and not noticing any slowdown.

First, the bad:

1. Load times for maps is long. Expect 30-60 seconds per area change.
2. I understand not being able to have a light with the shotgun, machine gun, etc., but not being able to do it with a weak pistol is dumb. After the main introduction, and the beginning of the action, light is sparse. Even the lighted sections are dark. Who has an office with no overhead lights?
3. No real improvement noticed on AI. Enemy still ducks and dodges, but does not do anything really extraordinary. Anything that looks like fairly complex AI is scripted, such as enemies coming through windows, walls, floors, ceilings, etc. I think an air ventilation system like in AvP would have solved alot of this. It would have allowed the enemy to find a new way to get to you. Also, to have them attracted to your sounds would have been a nice touch.
4. Price tag. An extra $5?

Now for the good:

1. Graphics. Very nice. Lighting keeps you from seeing much of the game, but in the areas with lots of light, it is nice. Nice outdoor areas too. Would have appreciated the ability to cripple enemies with aimed shots to legs or arms, but that is a minor issue.
2. Sound. If you have a good set of headphones, or a nice surround sound system, it will shine. Being able to hear the enemy is more important than seeing it. The sound also gives much to the fear factor.
3. Immersion. On the more challenging difficulty settings, you will fear going down a dark hallway, or entering a dark room. Having the electricity go off will actually put fear into your stomach. The fear in the game is a more immediate variety. Especially today, most people are jaded towards developing fear, but the shock effect is done very well in the game.

Overall, a really nice game. The price tag is a little steep, especially for a single player game. Hopefully some expansions will be released, although I am not holding my breath. Make sure you have the hardware before buying it. If you want your system to run every game well for the next 2-3 years, buy a console. People have forgotten that computer games are constantly being upgraded to the latest technology because it has been several years since a breakthrough game such as this. This game will make a fine addition to any collection. Incidently, Walmart is selling the game for $5 cheaper than anyone else.

Do you have the computer it takes?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game requires a super computer. Even with my 2 ghz processor, 1 gig of ram, and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro it runs terribly at 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600. The graphics are good when you manage to get the framerate high enough, but the action is just dumb. Its all finding youre way through poorly lit rooms with monsters in them. Plus, youre flashlight is another weapon so you need to swich back and forth between the flashlight and the gun. Its all mindless run and gun. No strategy or tactics at all. The rag doll physics are horridly unrealistic, and unlike the upcoming half life 2, there are only 5 or 6 objects that you can interact with, like cones and small boxes, and they move very unrealistically when shot or punched. The multiplayer is a joke. 2 vs 2. Need I say more? My recomendation: Wait untill Half Life 2 comes out on September 1st. It even comes with the new counter strike. Just stay away from this game.

HIGHS:
Good graphics
Tons of material (the news on the TV's, Video clips on youre PDA)

LOWS:
Takes a supercomputer to run
Terrible multiplayer
Bad action that takes no strategy

Brandon doesn't know all the facts

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 18
Date: July 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have here in front of me the *Spotlighted* review by Brandon, who harpes on this game for a number of reasons.

1)*But Doom 3 is just a graphical remake of the first few.* Not true. While the storyline will remain the same as Doom 1, and most of the monsters and weapons make a reappearance, that's where the similarities end. They added a storyline written by a professional sci-fi writer, they added true 6 channel MUSIC (get that? not just audio), as well as a plethora of other new features.

2)*only FOUR PLAYERS can participate in a deathmatch!* If you knew the amount of information that Doom 3 has to relay over the internet, you'll understand why four players is about all youre going to be able to have without an unplayably high ping. Every item in your surroundings is capable of being moved. That's a LOT of data to send.

3)*Half Life... ...can run on a low-end card using a special technique they used in the source engine.* Okay... and Doom 3 can run on a GeForce 3.

In fact, here's the official minimum system requirements:
1.5Ghz Processor
384Mb RAM
GeForce3 or Radeon8500

Now here at Amazon, i just checked, and it seems to be that they dont even SELL cards so old that Doom 3 won't run on them.

Finally, Doom 3 is coming out in AUGUST, which... ironically, this year comes BEFORE September.

Anyways, i'm excitedly looking forward to this game, as any gamer should, as WELL as Half Life 2. That review was written like an obvious fanboy of HL2.

If you like HL2 over Doom 3 and nothing is going to change your mind, then don't bother sliding over here and yelling about how HL2 is OMG TEH R0X0RS!!!11 You're not going to change any opinions.

This game is going to ROCK, and i can't WAIT for Amazon to ship my order out.

Seamless

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an unbelievable collaberation of fear and technological prowess. Though it's highly likely that only the top-of-the-line systems will be able to run this mammoth of a game, I suspect that any true Doom fan will, with great zeal, shell out the funds required.
Dead bodies do not mysteriously vanish from the scene, as they do in EVERY other FPS. In fact, when you walk over a dead body, it displays movement as your feet make contact with it, which is, despite all the other games that lack this feature, appropriate. Carmack's obsession with perfection and detail is nothing short of astounding. Boxes and items move accordingly when shot. Zombies that are shot in the head... really are shot in the head. Steam hisses, machines emit realistic "hums," and monitors give off faint glows, more often than not the only refuge of light one can find.
This game is dark. It is realistic. It is gruesome. As I played the "Leak," I needed to center myself on my seat several times. The former humans grumble eerily, speaking incoherent slurs, and the larger creatures give off an overwhelming aura; a feeling of dread that makes you want to delay your encounter for as long as you can.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Doom III is going to be to this modern generation what the original Doom was to the older: Revolutionary.

this emperor has no clothes

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 25
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Start with "Dusk to Dawn", give it crappy graphics and you have Doom3.

Doom3 reminds me of playing Unreal in software rendering mode.

This is my impression based on about 2 hours of play. With an AMD 1.5 GHz, 512 MB, Radeon 9800 Pro, this game provides a choice between hideously low graphical detail and ridiculously slow frames per second. Game play: As far as bug eye monster killing fun, Doom3 just isn't half the game Painkiller is. Actually, Doom3 is not even 1/10th the game Return to Castle Wolfenstein was either.

I believe 1) ID should have used OpenGL instead of DirectX. 2) ID could have made 10 times the game using the Unreal engine or even the Quake II engine.

Some minor pet peeves:
Doom3 is on Mars, with 38% of Earth's gravity. The game physics should reflect that.

What's up with the feeble weapon noises: pistol shots are about as loud as a supermodel biting into a rice cake.

What's up with racking the slide each and every time you pick up the shotgun and how come the empty hulls never fall out?

How come the main character is smart enough to get to Mars but not smart enough to think of holding the flashlight in one hand and the pistol in the other?

A true horror game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I don't see what people are complaining about. If you gave this game a bad review just because it wasn't like the old DOOM games, then you should go to Hell. First of all, this game is one of a kind. It's dark. It's satanic. It's friggin creepy at times. And rather than give a lengthy summary on what I think about the game, I'm going to give you the bottom line: This game has awesome graphics, awesome sound, awesome design, and an awesome horror factor.

So quit crying about its apparent disassociaton from the original DOOM games. "OMG OMG ITS NOT LIEK DEH ORIGINALZ! OMG!!"

It's got demons... teleportation... Mars... marines... the cyberdemon... hell knights... arch-viles... and the BFG. What more could you ask for?

The design is just astounding....

Great graphics and terror........

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphics and super scary settings. The biggest problem I have with it is the plot of the game. Its a "first person shooter" for sure, but after an hour or so you do not feel like you are really getting anywhere. [[[Go around corner - shoot monster - go around next corner - shoot monster - go into dark room...]]] and yeah, just start shooting because everything you encounter is the enemy. This game could have used some versatile direction in the realm of a more outdoor landscape as opposed to the confines of a space station. If this was released 10 years ago it would have been a hit, gosh given what graphics and gameplay are now, I am surprised this thing is even still on the shelves.

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