A couple of days before getting my hands on Doom 3, I fiddled a round a bit with the older versions of Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom and even Doom Remake, some 3D remake, kinda fun though. The fun was still there, the excitement was still there, the thrills and the action were right where I've left them few years ago. Doom 3 plays along the original Doom's feeling and adds even more atmosphere. I don't know what you guys were expecting, id already invented the FPS and Death Match once, what else did you think was left?

 

What unspoken marvels did you think id would make out of their 5 year long Doom 3 project? Let's be realistic, Doom 3 looks good and feels good, provided you have the right attitude towards it, like I already said. I enjoy playing it a lot and I think of it as some form of having sex. You know, you could come at any time you like, but it's more fun when you hold out longer, and I definitely can hold out longer than you. I just wanted to say that, I don't really know how Doom 3 is like sex.

Whatever, what I was trying to say is that Doom 3 would be the perfect game in which a console like save system would be appreciated, by me at least.

As I said earlier, knowing that you can load up a saved game at all times diminishes the feeling of having to survive in a hostile environment. I tell you, you'd be more careful, more tense and thus more easily scared if Doom 3 had a per level based save system. But then again, if you can't have a normal save system implemented in a game, that game is fundamentally wrong.

The single player part is great, I enjoyed it a lot and it was exactly what I expected of a Doom game. Some compared it to Serious Sam, some said it's nowhere even near the original Doom, some said it simply sucks. Can't argue with them and their expectations, I don't know what kind of game had they been waiting for all these long four years, I for one hoped for a Doom game, and by God, I got one.

As for the multiplayer part, I see the Quake 2 story repeating itself: the game shipped with a good engine, weapons and movement control, but crappy maps and fucked up net code. As soon as all these things will be fixed, the Doom 3 multiplayer will be as good as any other game's multiplayer. The weapons are great, especially the shotgun, that gives you the same powerful feeling of the double barreled shotgun in Doom 2 or the Super Shotgun in Quake 2, plus it ads a Blade like dust-in-the-wind effect when you shoot your enemies.

 

Moving around feels good again, just like it did in Quake 1, you have air control and double jumps, you have a good moving speed and obviously you can rocket jump. Lots of experimenting to be done, but again, with new, better maps. Or, on the contrary, maybe with some really old ones, like dm4 or ikdm11, well, you know...

So as far as I'm concerned, Doom 3 is a good game, its going to improve even more thanks to the already active and growing user community that already released a couple of good MODs like for example Co-Op Play, yummy. What it needs is more compassion from the horde of people that starting kicking Doom3 in the balls for not being the great game everybody was expecting.

 

I for one don't know what the fuck were you expecting anyway? Christ's coming in game world? Max Payne's wife resurrection? Sorry guys, the gaming business is already mature, huge innovation will not come from a sequel to one of the best games in history, revolution will be brought by something unexpected. So I can tell you now, stop talking about how Half-Life 2 and STALKER will definitely be better and change everything and so on, those will be only good games and that's exactly what Doom 3 is, a good game and that's all.

 

Graphics: 94

Sound: 84

Gamepplay: 72

Resources: 83

 

Final Note: 82