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Fun once you figure it out

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit that at first I was very disappointed because I couldn't figure out how to get to places I was supposed to go. The manual is no help and you're pretty much left on your own to figure things out. I found a few websites that had maps and tips/tricks (and even cheat codes) that helped a lot! Once you get past the initial confusion this game is as much fun as the original Doom but with better foes and improved graphics.

Pretty Cool!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This Game Is Awesome If You Play It In The Dark, Alone.Don't Play It With Your Friends In The Room Cuz They Will Distract You From All of The Jumpy Moments.

SCARY AND SUSPENSFUL!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game will keep you in suspense and have you jump in your seat a few times. It is fantastic considering the price is a lot less than other comparable games such as Crysis.

Your heart will beat faster as you penetrate deep into the levels that are swarming with zombies and other gruesome creatures all out to destroy you. Multiple save features are useful in that you begin where you were eliminated.

WELL WORTH the money, exciting and fun to play it will keep you mesmorized for hours on end!!!!

SCARY as HELL!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, you certainly end up in Hell!!
By this time this game it's a little old, but still haves better graphics than a lot of newer games out there!!!

This game assaults you like hell

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Playing doom 3 is like being kicked in the nuts over and over for several days. I felt like my eyes and my psyche were constantly assaulted by this game. I don't really prefer a lot of graphic horror, and that's what this game has in spades. There is so much gore, blood, and guts. Fundamentalist Christians and prudish moms would probably die of a heart attack if they saw this game. By the time I finished Doom 3, I was really tired and burned out on it. I think they went too far with all the emphasis on graphic horror. I liked Doom II a lot and they didn't go extreme with the graphic horror in that one. Doom 3 could've been a lot better. There was far too much of crawlng the repetitive, mechanistic dungeon levels and far too little of other things such as the martian surface landscape and ancient alien sites. Doom 3 had moments of brilliance, but more often it was monotonous, tiresome drudgery. I was really glad when I finally finished it. I played it on the 2nd hardest difficulty level, and it seemed like the game went on forever. Every time I thought I was getting close to the end, the game kept dragging on for lots more levels. Doom 3 could've been a much better game. After having my eyes and brain assaulted and traumatized by all that horror for so long, I am really ready to see and experience some nice, pleasant things. I don't think I am going to bother playing Quake 4, because I am really tired of iD games' use of extremely ugly cyborg creatures and the harsh, brutal atmosphere in their games. I liked the Halo series much better.

Dark and scary

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my bf and he likes it a lot. The game is very dark but he downloaded something that when you are walking you have both the lights and the gun. People who say it is not scary are just lying. Great graphics, excellent music and voices, good plot.

doom 3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

gave the game to my 12 yo son as a gift on recommendation from other kids in 14-17 yo range. its a little scary just because of hte realism but he cant put it down. absolutely loves the graphics. word of caution to buyers: check your pc specs first. this requires a lot of resources.

Doom 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Good Game!!! Scared the pants off me,What a ride,Thank You

hawk1234

Unimpressive, in retrospect - EOY, 2007

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game got a lot of press when it was new. Dark, creepy, it marked a resurgence of horror FPS games and pressed the boundaries of the hardware of the day.

As of Dec 2007, however, it doesn't do that any longer and there's darker, creepier, better written games out there. As we enter 2008, 8PM on a Thursday night, there are only ~10 people on all the servers that my copy found tonight. Doom3 might have a lot to be said for it in multiplayer mode, if people were still playing it, but they're not.

If you're toying with buying this game today, buy it as a single player FPS, and buy it cheap. Half-Life2, Prey, and a half dozen other, better written, FPSes are available in the same 15-25 dollar price range. If you can find this game under $20 and have a deep love of id Games, go for it. If you'd rather just find a good single-player game, blow that $20 on something more compelling.

MODs can breath new life into this game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall a solid game, but much has improved with the employment of fan and "official" MODs.

On the Doom 3 website are forums for MODs. Several MODs address weapon lights, new weapons, and even add allies. I agree with the tech assessment on weaponlights. Many 1st world militaries and police forces have weaponlights and the engine gives the demons enough intelligence to keep relitivly quite until they pounce. Even a helmet light (akin to the Colonial Marines in "Aliens") would add realism and fear since you can only 'see' what you are looking directly at (you turn a corner just in time to see an imp's claw as it waits silently).

I am playing through the game (2nd time) with a MOD called guardforce. It allows you to add UAC marines and sentrybots to the fight on your side. One of the bots comes with a headlamp. This is an interesting concept, except the lamp-bot will turn to look at you if you stop and you get a flashlight in your face. They do not climb ladders and cross major obsticals, so if you spawn too many, just ditch them. Also, if you spawn more than a few allies, you need to use the 'noclip' cheat to extract yourself from a room or hallway at times. Also, the "god" or "heal" cheats becomes needed at points as your "allies" tend to shoot *through* you to get to the enemy.

Other MODs improve weapons and other aspects of the game. Many are early attempts and practices that try to keep the game balanced. One makes the pistol a 2-shot weapon but in a massive caliber with lots of impulse (the demon flys back like a Dirty Harry movie). Another changes all the weapons and adds new ones. Still others make the demons fight each other (You have just entered Hell's uncivil war). Still more add new skins, maps, and effects.

The only issue is that, unlike the MOD manager of games like Freelancer, you cannot play two MODs at once.

I do miss the old openess of other games. The hallways and situations do become predictable, though enough unexpectness exists to play it again. On the good side, with more modern computers of 2007 (I guess that means "newly obsolete"?), the game runs VERY well. As usual with these games, it takes a while for the hardware to catch up.

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