Doom 3 has gone GOLD!!!!!!!!!!

[Colossus 2]

Our release date is friday the 13th, ¨lucky¨ us

<span style='font-size:5pt;line-height:100%'>Photo: id Software/Activision</span>

They will come to your house too  

[shinRaiden 0]

The biggest engine toy iirc is the dynamic lighting system, in combination with the enhanced optimizations. iirc, doom3 is yet another bsp-tree game like all late ID games, but with the obligatory stretched limits and additional shader capacity. I think the biggest 'new' change is the gynamic lighting system, geting away more from pre-compiled or 'early'-compiled lightmaping, that is useless on dynamic models (Quake2/3, OFP).

[Balschoiw 0]

I wonder if my comp will take it and run it in a good way.  

I loved Doom1, Doom2.

Will there be a coop mode ?  

I just loved to run around a corner hear some "chhhhk" see a red ballmonster hover around the corner and run back in panic with a lot of monsters on my trail and an surprised coplayer    

Anyone remembers the scary sound of that devils ?

*shiver*

Here´s a little goodie for all the old-school fellows who got temporarely paralized by Doom

The doom experience...bigger than 100 KB of course

[Monkey Lib Front 10]

The biggest engine toy iirc is the dynamic lighting system, in combination with the enhanced optimizations. iirc, doom3 is yet another bsp-tree game like all late ID games, but with the obligatory stretched limits and additional shader capacity. I think the biggest 'new' change is the gynamic lighting system, geting away more from pre-compiled or 'early'-compiled lightmaping, that is useless on dynamic models (Quake2/3, OFP).

also i remember something about using less polygons and relying on more cpu calculations to draw the engine or sumin, as you can see i know nothing, if i could only find that article  

@Balschoiw

There will be no COOP out of the box but they hope to patch it in later, much like System Shock 2

[HellToupee 0]

from what i heard the levels will be destructable. other than just shooting monsters there are creative ways to dispatch enemies. since the game takes place on mars, you could shoot out windows and depressurizing the room than all the monsters will either get sucked out, or suphocate.

The game would be 10'000 better if we had to kill human soldiers, seeing soldiers get sucked out of a window with a scream is mor efun then seeing a head with 8 legs and a weird mouth get sucked out

why the big desire to kill your own kind?

[sergeant rock 3]

Ahhhh, if only OFP had that quality of graphics.

Looks fantastic, but the plot and gameplay is so played out, doubt I'll spend the $50.

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX 0]

Part of the reason I'm not excited is that this is fuck all like doom. Its resident evil, not doom. Sneaking around in the shadows being all horror? Doom was about gibbing piles of imps and steam demons with the BFG, not this ... stuff.

Wow. It looks pretty. Meh.

[Cpt. FrostBite 0]

Is it really worth all that media and generall atention , shooting monsters?

Dude, we're talking Doom here. The mother of them all  

I'm sure as hell buying. Got too see what this baby 6800GT is good for in opengl. And like I said, it's Doom  

The mother of them all??

You must have missed Wolfenstein 3D. The first 3D shooter ever.

I'm gonna buy it as soon as I have bought myself a new videocard, GroundControl2, C&C Generals...

I need a better paying job

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

The mother of them all??

I think it was the first fps with a multiplayer support.

[Gollum1 0]

Aah, it looks very scary and atmospheric, I'll definitely play this once I get my new PC.

[Monkey Lib Front 10]

Part of the reason I'm not excited is that this is fuck all like doom.  Its resident evil, not doom.  Sneaking around in the shadows being all horror?  Doom was about gibbing piles of imps and steam demons with the BFG, not this ... stuff.

Wow.  It looks pretty.  Meh.

no its not all sneaking about, you even go to hell at one point in the game, Doom keeps to original pricipals of blowing the shit out of demon's just sometimes you can hide in the shadows but the demons can still see you, lol resident evil.

can i post the article scans?

[Winters 1]

I have the new PC Gamer and it gives an in-depth review of the game, it's sounding better and better although i will miss the Evil Tomato Demons

I read about a new weapon called the Soul Stealer or something like that, you can only use it after killing 5 baddies with conventional weapons and then it "calls" to you to be used. When you kill a baddie with it you get the health from the baddie to replenish your own.

[Norris 0]

The mother of them all??

I think it was the first fps with a multiplayer support.

Yes, and it had join-in-progress *hint hint*

Doom 1 was a total revolution in FPSs. It was the first time I missed school to play a game. But I'm really sceptical about Doom 3. Sequels rarely live up to the original.

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX 0]

no its not all sneaking about, you even go to hell at one point in the game, Doom keeps to original pricipals of blowing the shit out of demon's just sometimes you can hide in the shadows but the demons can still see you, lol resident evil.

can i post the article scans?

Sorry, have you ever played the original Doom? Comparing the two in terms of gameplay is laughable. Original Doom - VERY fast paced, very hard, lots of weapons, HUGE amounts of enemies.

Doom 3 - ITS DARK! And there MIGHT be two enemies on screen at one time!!!!!!!!!

[Monkey Lib Front 10]

no its not all sneaking about, you even go to hell at one point in the game, Doom keeps to original pricipals of blowing the shit out of demon's just sometimes you can hide in the shadows but the demons can still see you, lol resident evil.

can i post the article scans?

Sorry, have you ever played the original Doom?  Comparing the two in terms of gameplay is laughable.  Original Doom - VERY fast paced, very hard, lots of weapons, HUGE amounts of enemies.

Doom 3 - ITS DARK!  And there MIGHT be two enemies on screen at one time!!!!!!!!!

Yes i have, you played Doom 3? i aint im just going on what people who have played it have said, i doubt carmack will deveate away from the original core of Doom. so you are saying doom3 should not be dark??  

from what Hear

Huge amounts of Weapons

Fast Paced

Lot's of enemies

are all in there, so in some parts of the game are a little slower than other bit's, it was the same in Doom, tbh it's been a while but i never remember meeting more than 10 enemies on the screen.

[Frisbee 0]

Meh...

Sure this isn't just a game made to push an engine?

This is what I think about when I hear about a game from id, but yeah we'll see, it's not like I can run it anyway.

On the top side, the graphics do look great, and the atmosphere is definetely there.

Ah, and this is coming out on Xbox as well? Then my hopes are going down, let's dumb the game down to acommodate for people who need to play a FPS with a friggen' gamepad, recipe for disaster.

[kegetys 2]

tbh it's been a while but i never remember meeting more than 10 enemies on the screen.

Well either you havent played doom much or your memory isn't too good, since scenes like this were quite common in the harder levels... I really doubt Doom 3 will have that much monsters, and the levels seem to be built of much smaller rooms.

Still, I'm really waiting to get to play Doom 3, and if its anything like its promised to be it will propably be very good, yet quite different than the original Doom... Based on the reviews, it seems to have similar things as System Shock, where you read logfiles from dead crewmembers to unfold the plotline and get new goals to do,. (and System Shock is pretty much the best game I have ever played ;))

[shadow 6]

The mother of them all??

You must have missed Wolfenstein 3D. The first 3D shooter ever.

Yes, Wolf3d was the first. But Doom was the first revolutionary first person shooter, taking the Wolf3d-concept to a whole new level. That's what I meant.

[kegetys 2]

Yes, Wolf3d was the first.

Catacomb 3D was before Wolf 3D ;)

[Monkey Lib Front 10]

tbh it's been a while but i never remember meeting more than 10 enemies on the screen.

Well either you havent played doom much or your memory isn't too good, since scenes like this were quite common in the harder levels... I really doubt Doom 3 will have that much monsters, and the levels seem to be built of much smaller rooms.

Still, I'm really waiting to get to play Doom 3, and if its anything like its promised to be it will propably be very good, yet quite different than the original Doom... Based on the reviews, it seems to have similar things as System Shock, where you read logfiles from dead crewmembers to unfold the plotline and get new goals to do,. (and System Shock is pretty much the best game I have ever played ;))

Fair enough, tbh its been a good 7 years since i played it. Also arn't they using the Doom3 engine to remake Quake 2?

[Tovarish 0]

Yes, Wolf3d was the first.

Catacomb 3D was before Wolf 3D ;)

I remember that one! There was also Ken's Labyrinth, but that was shortly after Wolf 3D

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX 0]

There was another first person game before either, but it wasn't a shooter, it was some sort of D&D game IIRC

[Phleep 0]

There was another first person game before either, but it wasn't a shooter, it was some sort of D&D game IIRC

Ultima Underworld? Very impressive for its time.

[C4P741N 0]

Yes, Wolf3d was the first.

Catacomb 3D was before Wolf 3D ;)

You may or may not be surprised how few people know about 'Catacomb 3D'.

Cap.

[amp 0]

Snippets from PC Gamer review.

Minimum system requirements: P4 1.5Ghz or equivalent, 384MB RAM, 64MB graphics card (GF3/GF4MX minimum)

Recommended by PC Gamer: 2Ghx CPU, 512 RAM, Radeon 9800, 5-channel sound card

"Final verdict:

HIGHS Extraordinary graphics and sound; incredible tension, atmosphere and mayhem.

LOWS Some stabs at humor fall a bit flat.

BOTTOM LINE Just as we'd hoped, it's non-stop ride of tension, carnage and terror. A new classic.

94%"

Better start upgrading your hardware.