The third game of the DOOM series now in full 3D takes gamers through the depths of Hell, where technology and demons meet. But this time round, the game is more focused on horror elements than previous games in series.
Doom 3 is set in the year , on Mars. You start as an unnamed marine soldier sent to the Red Planet, where a corporation named The Union Aerospace Corporation makes secret experiments based on ancient aliens' technology. You receive your first simple mission and when you depart, the game really kicks off. Well almost. A card that's going to be available for very little money when the game finally ships in And that's if you want to play the game with full detail.
Apparently the game will play with most detail turned off on a first-generation GeForce card. Moving around the dark, dank corridors he drops a couple of demons in to show off the ultra-realistic character animations.
Shooting a folically challenged and overweight bit of undead hellspawn, he shows how it reacts as your body would if you'd just been shot between the legs with a shotgun. I'm not talking OTT Soldier Of Fortune-stye dismemberments, but more subtle movements in the body and physical feedback that looks and feels real. You know how bodies in shooters act like they've been poked by David Copperfield? Like when you shoot someone at the top of a flight of stairs and they just float horizontally, held up by their toes, waiting for Debbie McGee to come and point at them in a dramatic fashion?
Don't expect to see that in Doom III. In Doom III the body will crumple, slide off the stairs, pick up momentum and crash to the bottom where a limb might fold up behind the back. Or it might get wedged halfway down. Think realism. And this realism extends to objects in the world as well, which is a first for id. In previous games, they didn't bother with making the environments interactive. You wouldn't want to push a barrel around in Quake III for example, because you'd just get yourself shot.
With Doom III however, it's a different story: it's slower, it's singleplayer and it's going to involve thinking laterally to get yourself through certain situations. Most of what we've seen of the game so far is set in dark claustrophobic corridors deep in the bowels of Mars, and Todd Hollenshead points out that that's exactly where they want it to stay.
It's more an intense atmospheric experience. They're going to be smarter and scary in their own right, as opposed to scary just because there's loads of them. In the past, engines were judged on the number of polygons they could throw around - the more polys, the more detail, and the better the end result - something which led to European journalists asking the same question: "Und, how many polys are in zis scene?
In Doom III the emphasis isn't on polys but image fidelity, through the use of multiple texture maps. Stripping the engine down to wireframe mode, Tim Willits shows how a typical Doom III scene is constructed from basic geometry and multiple texture maps. Todd Hollenshead elaborates even further: "It's the same with the characters as well.
They appear to your eye as if they're or , polygons but they're really 2, to 3, And this is what id has always done best. The coders they've got working in their offices are acknowledged as the best in the business, but what about the stuff that's not as quantifiable? What about the Fear Factor? How do they test something as ephemeral as that? Todd Hollenshead looks pleased: "We turn the lights off in our offices and play the game.
If we have to go home and change pants then we know it's scary enough. Will : This was quite fun for me. Unlike Prez and Jamie who did not. Doom 3's narrow corridors aren't really made for three players either - but ammo and guns are at least limited by the mod to ensure it's not a complete pushover.
Monsters disintegrating into thin air while still walking towards you instead of keeling over and dying is another bugbear as well - the whole thing really does feel like a fan-made beta release. Which it is. However, the best moment came when fighting against the guardian in the hell levels. He got confused and instead of smiting our gallant team, just sat there looking grumpy and a lot like the depressed cat that needs baffling in Monty Python's Confuse-a-Cat' sketch.
This obviously entailed lots of candid screenshot-takmg of us getting up close with the miffed dark lord of hell. Better than the usual tourist snaps anyway. Prez : As Will mentioned, hosting Last Man Standing is infinitely preferable to merely joining a game. From the other side of the fence, everyone appeared to be moving on roller skates and their guns inactive, despite the constant hell creature explosions.
The lack of gunfire cues made it hard to determine where best to put your own limited ammo supplies, although everyone seemed to be very susceptible to a good torch battering - especially team-mates.
Also, a bug meant that the character models for teleporting bad guys would all be visible long before they activated, ruining most of the game's shocks and scares.
There was also an odd side effect with the hell guardian. Aside from remaining motionless, there were two of them. Which you don't see every day. Ultimately, it's an exercise in frustration. Pissing About Potential : Jumping out of the shadows to try and scare Prez was an amusing aside, especially as the game wasn't very good on that front. Mostly though, nothing beats a good healthy torch fight should you find yourself on a deserted Mars base. The discovery that crouching and shooting a team-mate with the shotgun catapults them across the room also led to much hilarity and impromptu dumping in lava.
When I played Doom 31 got much what I expected: a shooter that wasn't particularly clever or mould-breaking, but one that was hugely atmospheric, very dark, full of technological whizz-bangs and a hell of a lot of fun.
When I played Doom 3 multiplayer, however, I didn't. Id Software the games company who broke my deathmatch virginity with such effusive grace back in the good old days of Quake and its map-designing friends at Splash Damage who were responsible for the excellent Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory have cooked the books slightly. Four players, slow pace, five maps, darkened nooks and crannies, a slew of references to former id glories and one or two interesting features per level - far distant from the Arena frag-fests of recent years and with a focus on compact, quality-controlled blasting rather than a huge number of inconsequential maps and features.
At first, as they say, it's all gravy. There's plenty of fun to be had, for example, flicking the switches in the Lights Out map, powering down the generator, pulling the shutters down on the windows and stalking around in the darkness.
Indeed, hiding in the shadows and blasting a pursuer as he hurtles past is the greatest pleasure that Doom 3 deathmatch affords. Elsewhere there's a welcome return to the hub-trap style of map-making with the skin-shredding Frag Chamber, a few well-placed Berserk modes hideous screaming included and some nice features you won't notice instantly - like the power-up in the bowels of the Tomiko Reactor. After a while though, you hit a big bloodstained wall.
Fun as the map gimmicks are, there's a finite amount of enjoyment that can be squeezed from them. You discover that you can join servers that are running with eight players, and that ups the ante somewhat, but before long it becomes painfully apparent that this is a hugely limited multiplayer package. Over a LAN I'd say that this is a great game to stick on for an hour or so and shout abuse at each other, against faceless members of the internet community, but the fun ebbs away the more you play it.
The future of Doom 3 multiplayer, however, does lie in the modding community. As I type all manner of tweaks are appeanng online offering 32 player insta-deathmatches and the like, and with an engine this nifty you can bank on some gems turning up one day or another.
For now, though, you play it much as it was developed - and that's as a side thought. It's fun for a while, but there are bigger, brighter and better things out there. It's not a total disaster, but it's still the most underwhelming multiplayer that we've seen attached to an id product.
Dallas, Texas - the jewel of the Lone Star State. What a godforsaken hellhole. Never before have I been shipped to a bleaker, more soulless place to report on a games event and yes, that includes Slough and Milton Keynes. Like an antiquated videogame, the city is made of singlepolygon buildings, their mirrored veneers reflecting a sterile scene of deserted roads and too-neat hedges, the sidewalks occupied only by cops and the occasional blurry NPC -probably packing heat.
The sole distinguishing feature is the trademark Texan excess. Shopping malls are like small cities. Steaks are the size of your average domestic pet. In a way though, this is what we love about America. But at its core, this is a first-person shooter action game. Your mission is to defeat all monsters on Mars and find a way to survive. If you bring monsters to Earth, it will all end. How to play is nothing too strange if you often play the shooting game on the phone.
On the left of the screen is a virtual joystick to help you move, the remaining operations such as shooting, reloading on the right of the screen. You need to remember the location of each button because it automatically hides when you are not using it. The game takes you into battle through 9 levels. Basically, you need to learn how to move sensibly while attacking enemies with your weapons.
The gameplay is not too difficult to understand. You just need to keep your character from being defeated and destroy all monsters to advance to the next level. Besides, you can also pick up many types of weapons while fighting. In addition to fighting, you also have to find the location of the secret door to escape. Some doors require passwords or keys, look for them.
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