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FPS vs. RPG

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

OK, give me great graphics, lots of bad guys and cool guns and turn me loose. I don't want to "interact" with other characters or the environment. That is for 'role playing' games. What they've done here is to try and combine the two game types. Bad idea!!! Anyway, the game is very, very dark. It makes for cool graphics, but is a negative for play because you need to constantly switch between weapons and your flashlight. Nice try, but I'll be looking for the Call of Duty expansion pack in September.

Pretty graphics, but unoriginal and repetitive gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game looks good, but there is very little that is new in the gameplay. It really is just updated graphics applied to the original Doom. There's a lot of repetition too, so many stretches are boring and frustrating. And, most of the action takes place in the dark, so you can't see the pretty graphics most of the time! And why can't I use a flashlight and carry a weapon at the same time? It makes no sense.

My recommendation: Save $20 and buy Far Cry. It's a much better game.

My honest opinion

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: August 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am kinda dissapointed. Graphic wise hands down it was worth the hype. But we all know graphics only go so far. This game can get real boring real fast. The lighting is not good, yeah I know it's suppost to add to the fright factor, which isn't there, but u mean to tell me that in the time period that your playing in, which is in the future, there are not night vision goggles, hell even duct tape so you can tape your flash light to your gun...? I really wanted this to be great but once again, the hype kills it. I hope Half life 2 dosen't dissapoint like this dose.

Doom 3 never ceases to impress

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: August 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, I was a Doom junkie, so naturally I expected Doom 3 to transport me back to the good old days, guns, evil monsters and stunning game play... That being said, I experienced the same euphoria when I installed Doom 3 and begin my horror filled trek across mars. Naturally I expected much from Doom 3 and my expectations were very high, I was not disappointed. I won't give anything away, but I can tell you this, Doom 3 is an adventure around every corner and keeps you hooked! (As long as your hardware is up to snuff) To sum it up, ill break it down for your information...
Graphics: A (Incredible textures and character movements!)
Game play: B
Controls: A (I had zero difficulty with the controls from my first step on mars)
Plot: C+ (Portal to hell? I don't care much though, I mean come on, it's a doom game.)
Fun Factor: B+ (It never gets dull!)
Scare Factor: A (Providing your running on a rig with good sound and good graphics.)

WELL WORTH THE WAIT - AN EXCELLENT GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: August 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you are here, you already know the plot, you know that the graphics are outstanding. The gameplay is what really matters though, and that's where Doom III really shines.

What's amazing is how the pacing and immersive environment completely suck you into the game. I am an adult male and I have played every major FPS released in the last 5 years. This game is truly a personal cinematic experience. While graphics alone never make a game great, when combined with great gameplay, both create a trule immersive, and terrifying, game. I don't really like being scared, nervous, or apprehensive in a game, but Doom III makes me all three and I keep me coming back for more.

This is far from a run and gun game. Unlike other shooters, you don't have relentless numbers of enemies thrown at you to the point of being numbed. Instead, enemies are used more sparingly - you never know when, or from where, the next enemy will come. Nothing is more creepy than lighting up a pitch-black room with your flashlight and catching a glimpse of a zombie walking towards you. True, you cannot equip a weapon and your flashlight at the same time, and while that initially irritated me, I realized what a brilliant game contrivance it was. You have to choose to see or shoot in darkened areas - its make for great suspense and mood. This game oozes dread and atmosphere like no other.

It is easily worth the money.

Doom 3 = Amazing Graphics, bad design

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

While the idea of a new Doom game made me curl an evil little grin, it also made me wonder if the next installment would be worthwhile.

Well, it almost isn't...

To make the first remark positive, the graphics are incredibly stunning. The way explosions and heat bend the "air" around them is one of the most visually impressive effects in any 3D game to date. The Light Shadowing is perfect. The detail on the character animations is very lifelike. A full length CG movie could be made using the engine from this game. This is, unfortunately, where the "wow factor" ends and where the troubles begin for Doom 3.

The system requirements are WAY off. I have a brand new Dell XPS P4 3.4 Ghz PC with a ATI Radeon 9800XT, 1GB of DDR RAM and a Creative Audigy sound card. On any rez over 1024x768, I experience noticeable frame loss in some areas, with a lower than average FPS throughout the whole game. On a friend of mine's home built PC with a P4 2.0 Ghz processor running 512MB of RAM and a fairly new Nvidia card, the game runs poorly (25 FPS) on 640x480 rez.

Gameplay is extremely repetitive, where the collection of "PDA's" (ref. key cards in Doom 1 and 2) becomes tantamount in proceeding through the game. There are too many "monster bursts from dark room to slay you in a horrible fashion" encounters for my taste. The environment's architecture is very box-like, claustrophobic, repetitive, and WAY TOO DARK. Light is obviously not needed in a place like a Mars ground station.

Speaking of the environment, the only objects you can interact with are your health boxes, ammo reloads, and some random items that you can kick around. There are some cleverly scripted control panels, and some mechanical devices operated by said panels, but you HAVE to interact with them to move through the game, they aren't optional.

If you are a fan of the original games, you might notice too that plot outline is the same as the first DOOM game. The differences in this story and the original Doom game, as one reviewer put it, are almost a direct adaptation of the Half-Life story (people are trying to make teleportation technology, open portal to a bad place, death ensues). One nice touch though, is that in Doom 3 the scientists have names, and so does the evil "administrator type person who is out to get everyone". Oh, and you are fighting demons instead of aliens (they look very much alike, but don't tell them that, they might eat you).

Overall, the game tries to build this "sci-fi horror" experience, as if you were in a movie like "Event Horizon", but leaves you hitting the Quickload button far too many times with "surprises" in the dark. Doom 3 is a great techincal game, but suffers from a real lack of originality in plot and environment design.

Good Game, But Tooooooooo Dark

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: September 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pretty impressive graphics, sound, gameplay, etc. etc. etc. BUT, the game is frustratingly DARK. You cannot have a weapon AND your flashlight out at the same time! I mean, really, the game is set in the future, but you have to have to illuminate EVERYTHING with a pain-in-the-a$$ D-cell flashlight, which requires BOTH hands to operate? Come on..Adjusting Gamma won't help at all; you play the game like some half-blind, one-eyed guy who just got his pupils dialted at the optometrist's office. One or two random levels would have been great, however, the ENTIRE game is illuminated at about the same lighting level as the inside of your basement closet.

I got so frustrated with the dark environments, that I just wanted to get the game over with. Yes, the game is scary. Yes it is claustrophobic. But is also slow, dim, frustrating, annoying, confusing, and FREAKIN' DARK!!!

Here is an idea: put on a blindfold and wander around your house while your significant other hides and waits to jump and and yell, "GOTCHA." Its pretty much the same thing -- the suspense and fear is not a result of the storyline, characters, or adversaries -- the fear is force fed because everything unfolds in front of you in a window the size of a 50 cent piece. Its like playing the game through a periscope, but worse.

I was very dissapointed with this game. It could have been so much better with properly lit environments (see FARCRY).

Play it for the Engine and Frights

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: November 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Doom3 is not the greatest 3rd person Shoot-em-up as that honour still resides with HL and maybe even its sequel but let us first talk in terms of certainty. You have never seen anything like Doom3 before. Even the lush landscapes of FarCry can not prepare you for Doom3 however since the game has been developed for the 512mb card systems (only existing as multiprocessing SGI boxes but in a year or two we should see them) you will only really get to see this Almighty engine running on a 256mb pro card like the Radeon 9800 series. So I suggest you think heavily about upgrading to the best card you can simply because this is here and HL2 source.

Doom3 is just one big demon kill from start to finish. The story takes place on Mars where an invasion has nearly wiped everyone out. Every movie theme from The Exorcist to The Thing is played out in full. Doom3 borrows like no game you have seen before (just check out The Terminator exoskeleton on one breed of monster) but that just makes it all the better because the fantasy world is 100% immersive and plays as if you are really there in among the horror and action. The thrill of this game is why it deserves the 5 star treatment but there is more - Your PDA is like a mini computer that you gain info from near terminals located at various stages. You read other people's emails and learn codes and secrets that help progress your mission.

What can seem annoying at first is the fact that you must play 50% of this game virtually in the dark except for a flashlight. Now for about 60% of the game this effect is like being in the Blair Witch Woods or akin to it because zombies and demons come out of everywhere and you must shoot them, so down goes the torch and up goes the chainsaw and watch segments of your victim carve off if some parts manage to send sparks flying from a computer on the right, or it all happens in the dark. A gun that makes a nice explosive effect might light up the room for a few moments to see that there, in the darkness, is probably the most complete rendered monster ever committed to the realm of 3D gaming. In terms of reality - Doom 3 is like no other and deserves the 5 stars for it, however the story or at the least the novelty of the game starts to degrade towards the end after about 60% completion. The rest is basically boss beating and nothing novel, but the graphics do stun. Also a lot of the story and plot elements borry heavily from HL1 (monster bosses a bit similar, enemy troops after you, vents etc).

In short, play this game now on a 256mb card but also look forward to this engine being developed into an even better game. Doom 4 anyone?

Should be called 'Flashlight Adventure in the Dark 3"

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry but this game just doesn't cut it for me. Run around in the dark and shoot a bunch of monsters. Umm, didn't we already see that in AvP 1 and 2?

Id needs to quit making games and focus on graphics engines. That's all they've been good at since the original Doom. Leave the actual game desgin to the experts. This is just a mediocre game on a fantastic graphics engine. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to justify their decision to drop $50 on this game. I guarantee that in a year this game will fogotten.

The Alpha Leak was just short of 'God Like'....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Graphics are to die for...

The monsters are so ... well MONSTERS!...

ID has done it again... (and I'm just talking about the 3 levels in the alpha, the full game is going to be amazing)

No Other FPS game comes close...

there are so many realistic properties that have been added...
(ie. when you get mauled by a monster... your view is abruptly adjusted acordingly...) Some Monsters when killed "Slide Down Stairs" and can me kicked/pushed around the room...

some monsters crawl very fast and leap 15 feet... causing even a trained VET to loose his cool...

What else can I say....
"It's Just So Beautiful!"...

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