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Whew! Better bring a clean pair of shorts

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Good: This is a pretty darn amazing game. It is loads of fun. Has some really creepy parts. It is clear the amount of care that went into this game. I am several levels in so far, and it has held my attention well. The lighting is incredible. The creatures are hideous and scary. For a fun time, get this game, hook your computer up to surround sound, and turn off all the lights. There are quite a few spots where I jumped right out of my seat.

I had heard that this game starts slow. Really, the action starts up fairly quickly. I was running from demons after less than ten minutes of gameplay.

The Bad: My computer is pretty darn loaded right now with a gig of ram, a really new and loaded ati graphics card, a fast processor, etc. I had to turn down the detail of the game substantially in order for smooth gameplay. There is a lot of stuff going on in this game that drains resource availability, including shadows textures and whatnot. If your computer is an older one, it might choke on this resource hog.

best game ever next to origional DOOM

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Other than origional DOOM this is the scariest, best game ever!!! nuff said, play it if you dare!

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This review is going to be based on 3 categories. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

The Good:
eye inspiring graphics and special effects.
Very impressive nightmaresh sound effects.
Very scarey game with lots and lots of heart stopping surprises.
The game will have you either jumping out of your seat or shooting up anything that moves or falls to the floor.

The Bad:
The game lacks a lot from the original doom series. Over half of the original creatures from Doom 1, 2, and Final doom are missing which is very disappointing.
The sound track along with the creatures did not resemble anything next to the original doom series except for the rocket-launching Revenant and the Archvile. Id software must have spent a lot of time designing those two, unfortunently , they forgot to add the rest of the creatures.
As for the Imp's, I didn't have a clue to what those tall creatures with 8 eight eyes, throwing fire balls at me were. I didn't know what they were until I downloaded it on my PDA in the game. What a disappointment!
A lot of the times while I was playing the game, it seemed as if I was play Quake 2 or Half-Life but not Doom.
Don't get me wrong about the game. The game is a good game but they should have named it DOOM (The Beginning) instead of Doom 3.

The Ugly:
No joystick or game pad support. The only controller support is keyboard and mouse which will cause your left hand to get carpartunnel from constantly pressing the TAB,SHIFT,F,W,A,S, Q, and D keys.
The game is way too dark. A lot of the times, you're shooting at open air, and then turning the flash light on to see if they're dead or still walking around, only to find out that they're behind you tearing you to pieces.
I heard a lot about people stating that the game caused their computers to slow down to a crawl.
I myself didn't have that problem. My computer is 3 years old and what is even worse is I'm running a video card that is 6 years old. My system is an AMD XP 2800+ over clocked to be equal to an AMD XP 3200+, 640MB ram, Diamond Monster Sound 300MX and an old 3DFX Voodoo 5500 with 64MB video ram.
It took me awhile to find the right driver combination for my voodoo card because 3DFX went out of business back in December of 2000. But anyway, under the timedemo it states that I get 19 FPS but under actual game play I get 38 FPS in High Quality mode with a resolution of 1024x768. Go figure! I can't use the Ultra High Quality mode because my Voodoo card doesn't support TnL (Transform and Lighting) and I can't tell the difference between High Quality and Ultra High Quality except Ultra Hight Quality runs slower.

By-the-way. My video card and sound card are not direct X 9.0 compliant so don't believe everything that you read on the system requirements.

A very scary first person shooter!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Doom 3 is scary. you literally spend most of the game in the dark and nightmarish creatures can come out of nowhere and try to kill you. The environments look great and so does the character models. The game is long but can be longer if you get lost. However, this game has a few flaws. One (and it's a big one) is that you have to always carry the flashlight around. because most FPS only have the character have one weapon on one hand at a time and have the other hand to be non-existent, you constently have to switch between the flashlight and a weapon. So when it's dark and you have to fight, you have to either hold a flashlight and keep whacking your opponent until it's dead or stay in the dark and shoot your enemy which you can have a hard time finding it. the second con is that (unlike Half Life 2) you can't really interact with much. you can't grab certain objects and drop them or throw them. And a final con, which comes to one word: Imps. these are the most annoying enemy in the game. you constently fight them and it can get annoying sometimes. otherwise, a game to get.

Go For It!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all you cannot compare it with Half Life 2.That is the most amazing game ever!But is this game fun? - ABSOLUTELY.A good Graphics card will enrich the experience like anything.Most of the time you are moving around scared because 'things' attack out of nowhere(most of game happens in near darkness).I could not play the game more than 20mins at a stretch because of the fear of these 'things' that attack you.Its a great game altogether.Go get your copy.Worth every cent!

Doom III Revisited

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played the game for the second time about 2 years after the first. I did some things this time that increased my enjoyment of it. Sorry... I cheated. (first time). Let me say....How many levels are these developers going to make me fight through with only a pistol and shotgun?...about 10? Common! You can only get just so creative with a shotgun. Or, when they give you a new weapon, you get just enough amo for 1 roomful of villans. I put in the code for all weapons and amo. It was a blast to play. It was still plenty hard...but it moved much faster overall, and this made me realize how diverse the game really is. Shotgunning thru the same corridor for an hour just to make it 15 feet to the next door gets real tedious. Gimme something good...BFG 9000 by God... blast um... much more fun this way. The added variety I gained by using the code made Doom III much for fun and memorable.

Worth the price of admission

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll begin by saying I'm 26, a radio producer, not too heavy a gamer, but I enjoyed the original Doom titles. I don't know much about computers, but I have a fairly modern pc. Don't ask me the specs, cause I don't know them. My computer is mainly used for audio production. That means 1gig ram, and a standard geForce Nvidia video card. The computer is one year old.

I was originally turned off by the game, after waiting a month to get it for my birthday. It was choppy, slow, and the framerate was in the single digits. I went to the Nvidia site and downloaded a driver and re-installed the game, and that made all the difference. For the best performance, I am running this game at 800x600 and low video quality.

Now the meat and potatoes:

My first and most lasting impression is this game is absolutely thrilling. The packaging suggests playing the game at night with all the lights off. This really does give you the full experience of being immersed in the Doom3 environment. There are times when I have jumped in my seat playing this game. If you let yourself get swept up in the game, you'll be talking about it for days to come. People have complained about the lack of music. This game does lack music in a conventional sense, but it makes up for it with what I can only describe as "atmospheric sound." Some rooms are abuzz with the whirr of machinery, but other times it's hard to tell whether you're hearing the cycling hum of a generator, or whether it's a sound effect designed to scare the willies out of you.

In some rooms and corridors, the lights go out and all you can hear is a woman's scream at regular intervals, or demonic cackling, or some weird spacey sound that isn't quite music, but isn't quite natural either. Some of these experiences put me in such a state that I had to shut 'er down and call it a night. (Or at least let my heart calm down for an hour or two)

Like I said, this game is what you make of it. Since I do use my computer for audio production, my computer can reveal any shortcomings or triumphs in sound quality. I am pleased to announce that this game is absolutely gorgeous running through my mixing console and through the studio monitors. Even more terrifying is playing the game at night with headphones on to put myself right in the middle of the experience.

A few gripes:
the sounds is superb, but the machine gun sounds a bit wimpy. I'm not the only one to complain about this.

One weapon that is absolutely frustrating beyond belief is the Shotgun. The offical game guide recommends the shotgun for close-quarters combat only since it is only slightly effective at medium range and useless at long range. If this is the case, then the shotgun as it appears in Doom3 must have one hell of a wide spread to be so ineffective at even medium range.

Let me point out for gun laymen that shotguns are what people use for skeet shooting and game bird hunting. These shots are all taken at medium range AT BEST. yet the shotgun as it appears in Doom3 would be incapable of that sort of range. That's all well and good. It simply means that the choke of the gun allows for an EXTREMELY wide spread of shot. Yet in close quarters combat, the shotgun demands pinpoint accuracy, which suggests a tighter choke than first thought. So, the shotgun really represents the worst of both worlds: horrible performance at long range with no sense or realistic ballistics, and far-too-strict accuracy at close range. What's it gonna be, ID? A gun that compensates for accuracy at close range, or one that can bring down a long-distance target? The shotgun, as is, is useful for neither.

Another minor gripe is the strict system requirements. If you're reading this and aren't sure you can run this game, chances are you probably can't. For the rest of you...
have fun while on mars (and enjoy your trip to hell and back).

This is an awesome and terrifying game. I would best describe it as being immersed in some combination of Event Horizon, Aliens, and the Exorcist. If you feel like being scared crapless and having some fun shooting zombies and demons, then go for it.

One last thought:
this review is being written as Christmas approaches. Doom3 made it to the top-ten list of most offensive games for the association of complaining parents or some group like that. So that either means it's that much cooler to you, or you haven't read the rating on the box.

Genuinely Scary Game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and game play are very good, almost too good. The game has graphic potential that even a loaded Alienware might choke on. So most normal players will end up running it at about half of its potential. But even at that level, the graphics are quite good. But above all, it is scary. The dynamic lighting, spooky enemies and paralyzing sounds put Doom 3 in a league of its own. Play it at night, by yourself with a good surround sound system, if you dare.

A classic reborn.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who remembers the origianl Doom remembers one thing: it was a fun game to play. Outstanding graphics (for 1993 anyway), great sound, addictive multiplayer action, and absorbing atmosphere made this an immortal classic from the beginning. Hell (no pun intended) even the U.S. Military uses a version for training soldiers.

Fast forward eleven years to the present and we have Doom 3, not a true sequel but a retelling of the first game. However this 21st century update sports a sophisticated graphics engine that produces some of the most viscerally stunning graphics to date. The sound is also top-notch and does not require a high-end 3D sound card to get the full effect (although you're still better off with one). Multiplay returns too but it's limited to deathmatches.

Now onto a sticky subject: the gameplay. Depending on who you ask Doom 3 is either the action game of year (at least until Half-Life 2 ships) or an utter waste of time and money. For my two cents you cannot go wrong with this game. Let's remember that this is an ID software game which means the story is going to be paper thin. Another complaint is that the game is too dark...literally. Your character is equipped with a flashlight but it cannot be attached to a weapon; this means you must switch between your weapons and the flashlight (and of course if you're too slow then you're dead). Again this adds value to Doom 3 and introduces a sense of realism to the game. You're not going to blindly rush around any levels blasting demons and zombies without taking precautions.

All this fun costs in the form of stiff system requirements. The minimum CPU recommended is a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or AMD Athlon equivalent, Windows XP/2000, 384MB of system RAM, and a 64MB video card of the ATI or Nvidia persuasion. Trust me you'll want at least a Pentium 2.4 GHz processor with 512MB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce FX or ATI Radeon-class video card (not to mention 2.2 GB of free hard drive space) to really play this game. If there's a downside to Doom 3 this is it.

If you're an action gamer Doom 3 should be on hard drive already. For anyone else interested in the hype with a powerful machine check it out; you won't be disappointed.

Major Hype, Minimal Delivery.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There is nothing wrong with Doom 3. It is a well-put-together FPS with some nice graphics technology. It has a storyline that is solid, and a few interesting missions. The problem with Doom 3 is that it is just another FPS wrapped up with pretty graphics. There's nothing terribly revolutionary about the gameplay, nothing that makes this game stand out from any other FPS on the market right now, except the graphics engine, which wasn't all that impressive in my opinion. The weapons are boring, the levels are dark and kind of scary, but rather homogenous. I'd say wait until the hype wears off, and the price goes down, but only buy this one if you need it to complete your Id FPS collection.

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