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Impressive lighting fails to brighten an otherwise dull game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: October 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Doom3 looks great. Read any review and somewhere in there it will state that fact. The graphics will leave you open-mouthed, slack-jawed, agog even. And rightly so. But good looks alone are not enough to save this game from the bargain-bin of mediocrity - or perhaps worse.
The trouble is that although the graphics are good, they're probably too good; too over the top for a game of this style and this pace.
Take the lighting effects for example - they are spectacular! Have a good look at them - it's a colossal technical achievement. Shadows, specular and diffuse lighting, all the other stuff - its implemented flawlessly. But in the frenzy of game-play, you'd hardly notice it as you're too busy trying to kill the beasties who are trying to kill you.
And there's the rub - you don't need all these super-duper lighting effects because during game-play your attention is directed elsewhere- i.e. staying alive. It's just too much technology taking up too much processing power in what is effectively still a simple shoot'em up game. The implementation might have been updated, but the game-play remains very much in the mid-nineties.
In contrast, take Thief: The Deadly Shadows. A game based on light and shadow, it cannot boast the same technical prowess as Doom3, but its inferior lighting technology is more than adequate in creating a powerful ambience central to the game. Doom3, in contrast, concentrates on technical excellence rather than atmosphere or game-play - so it's a pretty but bland, repetitive experience.
So if you want to wade through Hell and kill lots of monsters then try Painkiller - it has great level design and huge level-bosses - but above all it's fun! Doom3 might have the looks and the lineage - but it's a real chore.

Lock and Load!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: September 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The DOOM name has always been synonymous with FPS (First person shooter), so I was always amazed at how long it took ID to come out with a new iteration of the game with enhanced play and graphics. Let me just say that this game is worth the wait. The graphics are flawless, right down to the character's arm hair. You can actually see realistic looking dimples and razor scarring on the NPC faces! I'm getting ahead of myself.

The premise is rather straightforward. All hell breaks loose (no pun intended) on a top secret Martian research facility, and your character has been given the duty to set things right. The monsters are fierce and agile. The weapons are deadly. The environment is beyond spooky. My suggestion is to play this game at night with the lights off and the speakers cranked, and believe me, it will scare the living daylights out of you.

All the weapons from the original DOOM are back, and look quite impressive, especially the BFG-9000. A few extras have been added, such as hand grenades and the Soul Cube. Yes it can be a pain sometimes because you can't carry a flashlight and fire at the same time, forcing you to do without any light during critical firefights, but in my opinion that adds to the horror and difficulty factor. Creature AI isn't that great, but let me tell you that these monsters are much tougher than you remember from the original. Imps can suddenly jump and strike you from 30 feet away, or even drop down from the ceiling behind you. The spiders swarm you from every direction. The Lost Souls charge you at amazing speed from multiple directions.

The gameplay can get repetetive quickly, but your heart is beating way too fast for you to even notice. With SUPERB graphics, eery sound effects, and good playability, I say this game is a must have for any FPS fan. FYI, the game runs smoothly on my PC at 1024x768 at high detail with this setup: AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 128MB Radeon 9600 Pro, 1.5 GB RAM, 2x120 GB SATA striped RAID.

My God, iD deserves an award!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

With all of the hype around Doom 3, I expected to be disappointed. I wasn't. This game is incredible!

Technically, it is a wonder to behold - even at 800x600 on medium detail (all my system can handle). It looks so damn REAL! The visuals, sound effects, animations, are all perfect. With so many areas dark, you start playing by sound, rather than sight - the sound is that good.

Gameplay wise, it is less of a shooter and more like a haunted house; a damned good haunted house. EVERYTHING in the game is scripted, which will probably limit replay value, but it plays like a damned movie! Play this with the lights down low - it's one helluva ride ;)

Thank you, iD! Bloody well perfect!

$40, Wasted.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I, a former avid player of both the original Doom and Doom 2, was looking forward to a newer, souped up version of the same game. The familiar brown walled rooms, well lit, crawling with monsters for me to shoot.

Instead, I get a first-person shooter re-hash of Resident Evil set in a poorly-lit sci-fi haunted house.

The sound is excellent, the graphics, when you can see them, very good. How hard is it to depict darkness, though? Apparently, ID was up to the job. The game itself? Boring. One day's worth of playing was enough for me, then I uninstalled it and have wished ever since I bought Half-Life 2 instead.

ID Software

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 20
Date: August 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm really thinking that all reviews having 5 stars have been written by people from ID Software. I'm a developer myself and I can see that they had a lot of work to do for this game. Unfortunatly the story is not very good, the single player mode is short and this is so dark you can't appreciate how the things were done. I almost forgot, I have a P4 2.6 GHz with a GeForce4 128 MB and I can play in a resolution of 640x480 and the fps must be like 15fps. I guess Microsoft is not innocent in that.

Don't waste your money in this game - I think you better have to download the C64 emulator and play Great Gianna Sisters, you will enjoy more !!!

Only losers give 5 stars to games they haven't played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 34
Date: July 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

C'mon dudes. My review title says it all. So mark this review as unhelpful just like all the other useless reviews by people who have nothing better to do than assume it will be "awesome dude"

GR8888888

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: November 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While there are many powerful weapons in the game, they are designed to force players to anticipate and plan for firefights.
The most intensely realistic and visually stunning game ever created; with graphic fidelity never before seen in video games outside pre-rendered CG movies.

Good long game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Having just finished Doom 3, I really did enjoy the game. Here are some of the good and bad points:

While the graphics were very good, I wouldn't say they were great. It was just too dark. What you could see of the creatures was very good. The outside and usually when you had to fight an end boss, it was always orangish red. Very little color or detail whihc for me kind of ruined what is supposed to be a great graphics engine.

The sound effects for me were the best. The sound of th weapons was good, but walking around and hearing moaning and breathing all aorund you gave the game great atmosphere. Keot me on the edge of my seat.

There were also too many time where creature would just warp in (why not warp them all in at the same time and obliterate the whole base?). It was very tiring clearing an area only to have something warp in behind you.

Also, the flashlight was a pain going back and forth between the two. And the PDA system sucked too. You had to watch every video and listen to every audio file and read every e-mail or you might miss something to get extra ammo or shield or life. And most of those files were stupid. It was such a waste of time.

The length of the game was very long for an FPS game. Took a ver long time to beat, alot of it seeemed repetitious. And the game was scary as that was there main goal in the first place. But the gane didn't keep me hooked to it. I found myself playing other games and leaving this one alone for for 7 or 8 days at a time.

Compared to Half-Life 2, this game isn't even close. Half-Life 2 had much more outside terrain where in my opinion you could really see some great graphics. This was just too confined, dark, and not very colorful.

Overall, I would reccommend this game as the graphics and sound were very good, the story was ok, but the scares and intensity were very good. I will try the MP when I play the expansion pack.

Creepy Little Things

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I know that everyone rips on this game as being too linear, and saying that it is not spooky, but these are possibly people who say that about everything. The good point made in the criticisms is that this game is in many ways similar to Aliens in terms of how the action and scariness works. Lots of darkness, dripping pipes, decaying machinery, and claustrophobia. Oh, yeah, and crazy things crawling on ceilings lookin' evil. I personally though that the PDA presentation, especially the audio, were extremely well done, and were even scarier than the excellent visuals. I felt sorry for, and empathized with, the poor civilians who had been working in this creepy place for months. Some were jerks, some were bureaucrats, some were ok, but all gave the feeling that even before you arrived there was definitely something, off, about Mars, and that they were very scared. These things really set up for when the beautifully detailed monsters would come after you, you would already be psyched and into the game. The only gripe I would have is that you hardly ever feel like you are accomplishing anything, as almost all the humans you see die immiedietely or just after you think you have saved them, which kind of leaves you feeling a little powerless in the game after the twentieth time you try to save someone. But maybe that is just for me as I tend to empathize a lot with the characters. Also, a motion tracker like the one from the AvP games would have been creepy as heck, and would have reduced flashlight frustrations. Finally, the final boss was too easy, though he more intimidating than a drill sergeant on steroids and capuccino.

Very Good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: August 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Doom 3 is almost what I expected.
First, the negative things:
1. a little too repetetive. Would be nice to see some variety instead of same looking halways and rooms
2. teleporting mosters right behind you is scary, but a bit too much at times
3. not much really reply value after you finish it (until some cool mods come out)

I do not understand people saying HL2 is going to be so much better. They haven't even played it yet, and who knows when it will be out.

Also those complaining about multiplier should just get UT or Quake and stop complaining. Doom3 was designed to be a single player game.

Doom 3 has excelent graphics (even on my Athlon 2100+ with Radeon9800 card).
The atmosphere in the game is great, it's dark, but it adds to the scare factor.

The weapons are nicely balanced. Most shooters you just grab the baddest gun and run thru the game with it. In doom 3 you have to balance your weapons as ammo is scarce and sometimes a shutgun is better than machine gun.

If you liked the original doom, you should like this one.

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