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Finally

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 36 / 45
Date: April 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Folks all i can say is it was well worth the wait. Ive heard people cry that its dark. Yes it is in more ways than one. Its just dark enough to keep you nervous about what is around a corner or behind you. These graphics are without a doubt the best ever produced on any console. The nay sayers are dead wrong. I play (other than an occasional platformer) nothing but first person shooters and while i enjoyed the Halo games as well as Metroid Prime and many others they are well behind the design and gameplay of this masterpiece. This is not a "run and gun" game. If you play it as such, you will die and die often. Take your time and look around there is lots to see and find. Believe the hype folks! I did not think these graphics could be produced on any console. Play it in the dark and enjoy.

Like to get scared? Go to Hell!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 21
Date: November 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely one of the moodiest, best-orchestrated games I've ever played. It gives many nods to the kind of immersion (and outright steals a number of elements) popularized by Half-Life. This is pure DOOM though - demons, possessed humans, flying skulls, creepy voices, etc. And of course, the two things you truly need for happiness while descending to Hell: a shotgun and a chainsaw.

If you like games that suck you in with powerful environments, DOOM 3 is the best you will ever find. The graphics are superb, dark, and downright freaky at times. Even better than the visuals, though, is the sound. Slithering sounds from nearby enemies, demonic laughter echoing down the hallway as monsters descend on you, etc. It all adds up to a powerful experience that can really tug at your claustrophobic strings.

Here's a low-down on the collector's edition.

THE GOOD:
* It's scary, it's visceral, it frays your nerves, and it's absolutely a ton of fun.
* Production values are outstanding, although the plot is paper-thin. But it's DOOM, so what do you expect? A Shakespearean play?
* Ultimate DOOM and DOOM II are included and very playable on the Xbox. Sure, they're outdated and clunky compared to this beautiful masterpiece. They're a walk down memory lane for those of us who remember the original games, and a good history lesson for those who don't.
* G4 "Icons" video with background info on the making of DOOM 3.
* Collector's Edition case is very cool.

THE BAD:
* No split-screen co-op mode! You can only play co-op if you use Xbox Live or system link. Lame!

THE UGLY:
* The interviews in the collector's edition are pretty lame. It's basically a handful of the top guys at Id Software talking for a couple minutes each about some aspect of the game or other. Even when John Carmack himself was talking, I quickly got bored with how pedestrian the whole thing was.

THE SUMMARY:
Don't mind those folks who whine about how you can't use the flashlight at the same time as you use a weapon - deal with it! The game is still a blast, and it gives all new meaning to the phrase... GO TO HELL! Highly, highly, HIGHLY recommended.

Couldn't get much better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all let me say that I am an avid fan and player of all the games in the Doom series. I was extatic to hear that Doom 3 was finally coming out for Xbox and I am happy to say that I was not let down.

-Graphics: 9/10

The graphics are perfect. ID and Activision did an outstanding job on bringing this game to the Xbox system. Details in the levels are not lost from the switch and it is just as creepy of a game as it is on the computer. The movement is very smooth and it is also very fluid and natural when you are walking or looking around. There has only been a couple of times when the game slowed down a little bit, but nothing worth marking the game down for.

-Gameplay: 10/10

Gameplay is extremely fun and easy. The controls are very natural and if you don't like them you can always change them around. One of the really cool and realistic features is that the base is very dark and you need to use your flashlight often to find your way around. You can only carry your flashlight or a gun so it makes for hightened action and suspense when you light up a room only to find that there is a ton of zombies in there. This feature is not annoying like you may think. Switching between the flashlight and/or other weapons is very quick so you don't have to worry about not being able to shoot in time. As I'm sure you've heard about this game, it's scary. This is very true. Everywhere you go you never know what will happen next. Sometimes while walking, something will just fall or make a noise to make you jump. Other times that noise is coming from someone behind you.

-Sound: 10/10

Sounds and music are fantastic. I would highly recommend that you purchase the Advanced A/V Pack for your Xbox and hook it up to some 5.1 surround sound speakers to feel the full effect. Even in the menu screens the sounds are so creepy.

-Extras: 10/10

Finally a few words about the Collector's Edition. Spend the $10 extra and get it, it's worth it. Along with the really cool metal tin case, you get the FULL versions of both Ultimate Doom AND Doom II. They have also been redone so that they can be played multiplayer style. In addition the Collector's Edition also gives you some other things like behind the scenes and concept art.

--OVERALL: 9.7--

-Quick Overview

PROS:
-Good unfolding story
-Great graphics
-Easy controls
-Fun and very scary gameplay
-Great music and sound (with some classic Doom sound effects thrown in)
-Realistic
-Two extra classic Doom games included

CONS:
-Very few and far between, but can get slow and glitchy
-PDA can be a little bit annoying to use expecially when having to look for lock combinations

Best game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game today and it is sweet. The graphics are the best that I have seen in a game. This game is so scary that as soon as you start fighting you will be scared for the rest of the game. The Zombies and Demons look so real and the game feels like you are in a horror movie. All of the guns that you get in the game are the best. The weapons in Doom 3 are 100 times better than the one's in Halo 2.

Pros:
Great graphics
Cool weapons
Holy crap it's scary
Long and challlenging levels
Smart A.I.
Plenty of pants wetting moments
A lot of single player action

Cons:
Holy crap it's scary
Can't have a gun out with your flashlight

The best (and scariest) FPS out there so far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you've never played a horror video game, or are under the age of 14, stop reading this now. Don't think about buying Doom 3 whatsoever. Go play Resident evil or something, if you want to play a horror game. This is THE scariest game ever made. Period. I actually dropped my controller and jumped up from my seat, obesceneties flowing from my mouth, when I looked up an air vent and a demon hurtled itself at me. Let me just say that if I had a full bladder, I would have messed my pants. I have played the PC version (which is approximitly 100 times less frightning) and that was a good game. So, when april 4th came around, I bought this. This is much better. Oh, and if you're thinking about getting the regular version, without the extras? Go ahead and pay the extra 10 bucks. You get the full versions of Doom and Doom 2, along with an entertaining G4 making of featurette, and an artwork reel. In the words of Napolean Dynamite, sweeet. So, if you are looking for an awesome, fright filled FPS, look no further. Doom 3 has arrived.

Pros:

-Awesome graphics, the BEST I've seen on the Xbox

-Great, easy to learn controls

-The scariest game ever made

-Funner than hell gameplay

Cons:

-None I've seen so far. If ANYONE can find one tiny little flaw, I dare you to find it and point it out to me.

So, pay the extra 10 bucks, buy this game, and get ready for a wild, scary ride.

YES!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love the Doom games. There's just something about killing hell demons on Mars...

Alright. This game was awesome...and scary as hell, too. It's probably one of the best games that I've played on the XBox. I don't even know where to begin. Obviously it's the same old Doom we know and love but in 3-D. It still has the same huge levels and the same evil demons, the same weapons plus one and some grenades, but it's a lot darker and more evil...and really detailed. There are also some funny bits here and there.

Not only that but the full versions of Doom and Doom II are a sweet bonus.

Basically, if you like first person shooters, you'll like this; if you like the Doom series, you'll like this; if you like survival horror games, you'll like this.

Demonic Three-in-One

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

PC games have come a long way in their short existences, in the early nineties consoles were dominating the market, but then in 1992 a group of hackers through to gather game that was a huge first in both graphics and game play.

It was called Wolfenstien 3D.

But wasn't until a year later when Id software really earn their strips with a game that still popular today even though it is completely dated.

Doom.

Fast forward 11 years and the folks at Id went back to their roots, remaking Doom for an action shoot to a fright fest horror game.

You're a marine that just got station on Mars City, the hub of all research and Development for the Union Aerospace Corporation on mars. Right off the bat you notices something is a miss, people are missing, rumors are spreading of strange sounds, odd behavior in some of the personnel, and some kind of experiment going on in the Delta Labs?

Suddenly the lights go out and screams and gun shots echo up and down the corridors, there are suddenly flash of red and orange light, disembodies voices chanting. Suddenly your co-workers turn on you! Personnel become mindless zombies and suddenly horrifying creatures start crawling out of every corner. After one narrowing escape after another and intense firefights, you find out that these strange monsters are really Demons straight from the very burning pits of Hell. The Experiment in the Delta Labs must of open some gateway that allowed all of the Devils minions to invade the Martian Base.

Doom 3 is heavy on atmosphere, dark costraphobic corridors with an occasionally flickering light. This atmosphere creates a haunting sense of dread. It's dark, there's blood everywhere, half eaten corpses. The foreboding is intensified by sudden disembody voices, screams and whispers, sometimes even shadows dance on the walls and floor.

This atmosphare is always problemactic because when you enter a pich black room you have to switch to your flash light so see anything, making you utterly defensless if somthing jumps out at you.

Doom 3: The Collectors Edition, also has a fair about of booty, interviews with the game makers, concepti art, but best of all this edition comes with two more games, Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth, \now you can play the classic Doom games that everyone loved right on your Xbox.

Doom 3 Collector's Edition.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, Doom 3 is great. There's tension, darkness, a forboding feeling, and some awesome looking demons coming to tear you apart and drag you to hell.

I'm sure someone's already said that the fact that you can't equip the flashlight at the same time as a gun really makes things a little scarier.

The game is good. It starts to feel like it's getting a bit long, but then you get attacked by a new enemy or you get rocketted into Hell or something like that and you're suddenly loving it again.

The game can get to be pretty hard, but it's nothing you can't get through after a couple tries.

As for the Collector's Edition, I'd say only get it if you're a big fan of the Doom series. Of course. You've got some interviews and such, some concept art, and the original Dooms. There's really no reason to get it for Doom and Doom 2 unless you HAVE to have them on xbox for some reason. It is fun to get some friends together and play some deathmatches on the XBOX, but beyond that, there's really not much use to them when you could easily just get them for your computer and have the real experience.

I really only bought the XBOX version of Doom 3 because my computer would never run it. So yeah. If you have a computer capable of running Doom 3 you shouldn't even be thinking about the XBOX version.

Great Game, stop complaining about lighting!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THis game was probably the best game i've palyed for quite awhile, one thing i don't understand is why people complain about the lights on guns, come on people, did you really expect to buy this game so there'd be daemons just standing in the light the whole time, i don't think so. The esence of a daemon is to hide in the dark, scare the living crap out fo you, then kill you, if they'd made this game, with flashlights, then that would take half of the thrill of being clawed or mauled to death by a daemon away. Plus, if you can't switch from the flashlight to your next wepon, then put down the game and never play again. Unfortunetly, it looks like the whiners got there wish, and in the resurrection they have flash lighted guns, seriously, it jsut really isn't that scary with all the lights now, jsut another con in a great game...

KILL OR GET KILLED

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is worth buying, hands down. it has smooth gameplay, with controls easy to manage and remember, graphics are very realistic, and first player alone is worth buying this game. also it has online coopertive play and deathmatch which makes it even more worth buying. This game is also very challenging even when its on easy. I highly recomend you beat this game on easy first, trust me your going to want to play this game more than once. I have beat it on easy and normal, hard is to much for me. Plus I still play it today cause i keep forgeting what happens, lol.

This game is recomended to anyone who likes this resident evil series, its even more suspence than that, i do not recomend this game to children under 12 as it might be to much for them, unless you really dont care.

I give this game solid 5-5 with single player alone.

enjoy :}

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