Words cannot describe this game. It starts out a lot like Halflife with the free roam, talking to people who got work to do. Then all of a sudden....all hell breaks loose, literally. The lighting is one of the best I have ever seen in a game. Its just something you have to play first hand
Playing on my
AMD XP2500+
Gigabyte GA7vaxp ultra
1gig of pc3200 hyper X
Radeon 9800 pro (128mb)
Audigy with 5.1
1024x768, at the high settings. Completly playable
I'm almost done with it, and to be quite frank, the gameplay has been rather dissapointing. It started off cool but the factor quickly went away once the "core" gameplay began, ie. find PDA, kill monsters, open door, find PDA, kill monsters etc. The weapons are mostly dissapointing and the monsters aren't varied enough. There are several things that seem taken straight from Half-Life, including parts of the story. It's not very scary either, although the atmosphere and music are excellent. IMHO, Far Cry was much more innovative and exciting than this...
and to be quite frank, the gameplay has been rather dissapointing. It started off cool but the factor quickly went away once the "core" gameplay began, ie. find PDA, kill monsters, open door, find PDA, kill monsters etc. The weapons are mostly dissapointing and the monsters aren't varied enough. There are several things that seem taken straight from Half-Life, including parts of the story. It's not very scary either, although the atmosphere and music are excellent. IMHO, Far Cry was much more innovative and exciting than this...
Originally posted by rogue I'm almost done with it, and to be quite frank, the gameplay has been rather dissapointing. It started off cool but the factor quickly went away once the "core" gameplay began, ie. find PDA, kill monsters, open door, find PDA, kill monsters etc. The weapons are mostly dissapointing and the monsters aren't varied enough. There are several things that seem taken straight from Half-Life, including parts of the story. It's not very scary either, although the atmosphere and music are excellent. IMHO, Far Cry was much more innovative and exciting than this...
HAHA now i get to die of lafter!!! I said this all along... its nothing but an eye candy game.
And Talent, Are you shure you posted pictures? Oh wait there they are... had to turn the BRIGHTNESS up on my monitor to see them.
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I like Doom 3 a lot, however I agree in some respects to what some of you said about the game getting old after a bit. After a while of the whole hoo ha of getting jumped and the imps trying to rape you every second, and the consistant triggers that spawn 20 head spider thingys when you touch that med pack or box of shotty shells, did get old, I was able to predict when and where they would happen to a point and hence the feeling was lost.
However Doom 3, like Quake, Never did have much of a story to them, Doom 3 did a much better job at the whole plot thing, Still ID has always seemed to just make their money leasing their tech to other people who make really good games.. ID's games have always been "Get he key open the new red door, blast 30 mean people/dillys"
I however like the action sequences, when your shooting stuff it's fun, when your not your fearing the shooting sequences.
Basicly, Doom 3 is as you said Pugsley, an eye candy game, but it's very badass and I haven't tired of the slightly repeditive sequences. it's got to be one of my favorite games so far.
Originally posted by Pugsley HAHA now i get to die of lafter!!! I said this all along... its nothing but an eye candy game.
What I dont get is why people were expecting this to be something its not....
This is what I expected all a long, a first person shooter of you vs hellish demons with the best graphics you have seen so far. And so far I am quite satisfied with it.
Who ever played Doom1 or 2 for the story? They played them because they were fun shooting tons of minions with destructive weapons.
And i can bet the same thing will happen for Halflife 2 when it comes out. All these people are gonna think its all the greatest games rolled into one...when its just the same as the first with a new engine and never before seen psyics. Dont set your expectations too high and you will never be disappointed
Serriously... i could care less about the HL2 engine... i DO want to play HL2 to continue the story... i wonder what kinda cool stuff there will be in the new game.
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I finished the game as well and I thought the G-spot review was pretty spot on. It's fun for about the first half of the game, but then it gets tired and tedious. Traversing dark, cramp corridors blasting seemingly the same enemies over and over is fun for only so long, and the weak-ass sounding weapons are annoying at best. No doubt the graphics and presentation are really top notch - everything else, however, I found lacking in one way or another.
I didn't find the darkness scary and I wasn't as immersed in the atmosphere as everyone claims I should be. The relied too much on cheap, easy scares, and at some point you could predict how sections would play out. The first hour of the game was really outstanding - great graphics, great atmosphere, it was scary, dark, creepy... then after a while I just got the impression that I'd really seen all I was going to see, or mostly what I was going to see, and I lost interest.
The gameplay is the big problem - it's repetitive, and shit like monsters who are inexplicably hanging out in a closet waiting for you to come by or spawing directly behind you when it's convenient wears thin quick.
It's a basic game in a pretty wrapper. Taken in the context of previous Doom games, it hits on all cylinders. I enjoyed it for what it was. I guess if you're expecting anything other than the basic run-n-gun formula (and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that formula) that harkens back to Doom's roots , you could be a tad disappointed. As an action shooter though, it was a 'Hell' of a ride (pun intended).
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i died about 5 times so far within 30 minutes
beat down 2 monsters with a flashlight
got lost in the beginning trying to escape from the place
and have uninstalled it from my machine ever since
its an alright game but impossible golf for pc owns this game now
(at least for me)
