THE GOOD: Graphics and sound are excellent. Scary Good weapons
THE BAD: Enemies are not intelligent Each enemy will always attack you in the same way Multiplayer not that good
SUMMARY: Don't get me wrong, this is a good game but there are certain things here and there which make it far inferior to the likes of Half life 2. I'll start with the good. It will make you jump. You will enter a room and the lights will go out but you know you are not alone in the room. Then in order to get out the flashlight you have to put your gun away. The scariest moment in my opinion was when i was calmly walking up the stairs when a BIG IMP THING smashed its way out from inside the staircase and attacked me. I actually screamed out loud before preceeding to blow it's head off. The games catches you by suprise, things like that happen all the time and you will find yourself scared to turn a corner or open a door. The graphics of this...
It has been one of the most anticiapted games of the new millineum, and it's finally here. Thats right, Doom 3 is here. But, is it everything you thought it would be and and a basket of muffins. Yes, and no. Okay, so there's no basket of muffins, but it is a good game. So let's get the stuff we already know out of the way first. The game looks fabulous. No doubt about it, even at the lowest settings, it is still one of the best looking pc games out there. The attention to detail, especially in the character models is especially pleasant. You may spend the first part of the game running around the base just looking at the tv's, watching the news reports, as it shows character models doing the news reports and their lips actually moving in sync with their speech. Ok, so it isn't that big a deal, but it is just one example of the amount of detail put into the game.
The game's lighting is also good, but I think it was overhyped. Detailed lighting is all too common nowadays, so...
THE GOOD: - A welcome return to a franchise that should have spawned far more sequels than this. - Maximum use of today's advanced technologies to create a realistic world. - More scares than you could ever cram into a Resident Evil game. - Some of the most horrific looking monsters you've ever pointed a gun at. - Quite long. - Excellent level design.
THE BAD: - Can get slightly predictable after a few levels.
SUMMARY: Picture the scene. You're edging along a corridor with faulty lighting, you can hardly see where you're going and as if you're not scared enough as you nervously approach a steel staircase to climb to a brighter area, a monster about 1.5 times the size of you bursts out through the steps and chases you down the corridor as you run blindly backwards, firing frantically to save your life.
Welcome to Doom 3. After years of hard labor in their offices, iD Software have re-emerged as the leader in the FPS market...
THE GOOD: Graphics Imps AI Punching innocent people in the face. Interactivity It's almost TOO much like real life Made me jump 7 times All the classic guns are there (BFG) (PLASMA) etc. I could go on all day
THE BAD: The Barrels aren't green.
SUMMARY: "Is it dead?" "SHIT!!" "WHAT THE F*CK!?" - These are the most common thing that you will guaranteed say while playing this game. This is by far the best game i have ever played, and it was well worth the year delay. I never thought i would come across a better game than half life. But i have. OK, i'll go over what i said in "The Good" :-
Graphics :- Awesome. Just pure awesome. They don't get any better than this. For example, walk up to a computer and you can click your way around the screen, just like you would in real life, there is a classic thing that was good to see. at the start of the game, walk in the the Canteen. You will see an arcade game there, Can you...
SUMMARY: Aaaahhh.....1992......hurricane Andrew.......mullets......the Olympic "Dream Team".......the L.A. riots. Aladin was the top grossing film and Baby Got Back was on the radio. I was 5 years out of high school, nice apartment and a good sales job. I had been into computer games since I was a kid, having fond memories of our Commodore 64 and later the 128. I remember playing Castle Wolfenstein 3D and thinking wow, what a cool concept the first person shooter was. FPS? What the heck was that?! This little known Texas based company called id software who pretty much invented the FPS genre with Castle Wolfenstein 3D decides to turn the computer gaming industry on its collective ear with Doom in 1992. Nobody had ever seen such a game; the blood, the violence, the incredible 3D effects. Wow! Was it COOL!
You see, history has a funny way of repeating itself. Now, here it is 2004;...
THE GOOD: ID really advanced the graphics in Doom 3 when compared to older games(obviously). The creatures are awesome and the creepyness has me frantically looking in all directions looking for something to pop out and attack me. The background is very detailed with the massive streaks of blood and corpses all over the place.
THE BAD: The only problem is the advanced video cards, and processors etc. required for playing this game without sluggishness. This makes average computer play choppy and harder to kill monsters. Also always having to switch back and forth from you flashlight to your weapon is annoying, as most of the game is pitch black or very dark even when your brightness level is up all the way. I'm complaining about the darkness just the flashlight.
SUMMARY: Despite its flaws, Doom 3's good qualities easily outway its bad ones, which is why this game is so great. Even though it runs slow on my computer, it is still a good enough...
THE GOOD: The game is scary, the zombies are disgusting. You cannot relax and enjoy the scenery. Hm.... in our modern times this seems to be good .
The gameplay feels like a flashback of playing the old, old quake long time ago. Sometimes you do not dare to go on and you cannot stop also.
THE BAD: The game is not friendly to ATI users. Who wants to study all the tweaks for his system to get the game going? Spent 5 hours trying to get some performance. I have looked at various forums for information on tuning the game. There are good forums thankfully. I advise to look at http://www.tweakguides.com/Doom3_1.html ,this guide helpt me out.
At the moment I can use a resolution of 1024 x 768 at high quality graphics without AA or AF. That is after unzipping the pk4 files and updating some settings in a few configuration files....
THE GOOD: Graphics Story Enemy AI Gameplay and pace Sound
THE BAD: Multiplayer
SUMMARY: Okay, I Have played through about an hour and a half of the game and here's my view. The graphics are the most amazing that I have seen ever, even on my graphics card. they are just beautiful and downright gorgeus. The story really puts you right in the game, you feel like the horror is real and you're actually on mars. everything transitions and works very well. an excellent storyline indeed. Now'adays games AI are getting better and better. while the AI may not be the best, they work very good and do what you expect zombies, monsters, and demons should do. intimidate you like crazy. Now for some reason people don't like the gameplay, they say there's too much run and shoot. But what type of FPS is good without that I ask. I say there is never enough shooting. the flashlight being seperate from the weapons is a plus for me as it...
THE GOOD: graphics awesome story gameplay preformance creapy AI creatures weapons bosses
THE BAD: multiplayer has lag-bursts (80 ping to 700) multiplayer filter has no effect except for game type. but nothing a patch cant fix
SUMMARY: i guess i'll be the first to write a review. i've given some games a high rating in the past...but this one deserves it. the graphics and experience is really amazing...in my opinion. and i really cant believe how well the game works. i mean no glitches...no falling thru the ground, no missing walls or textures, no crappy AI where the enemy just stands in a corner while you bash em with a flashlight, no getting stuck etc etc. the zombied-marines hide behind cover very well...pretty hard to hit sometimes. the imps jump out of the way of fire most of the time...and just about each time an imp appears is awesome. the smooth animation as they climb over a rail or crawl by a window,...
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