doom 3 - official

well, the first review is out. pc gamer game doom 3 a 94%

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Originally Posted by seige (gaf)

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 a non-stop ride of tension, carnage and terror. A new classic.

Multiplayer:
1v1, DM, Team DM, and Last Man Standing. There are 5 DM maps shipping with the game.

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i was only vaguely excited for this one, but now that it's so close, i'm much more interested. time to finally pick up that new videocard.

No co-op makes me a sad panda :cry:

There isn't a single id game I don't like, so I'm sure this'll be awesome. Granted, I think I only barely make the minimum requirements...

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Originally Posted by Mzo

No co-op makes me a sad panda :cry:

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troof.

the xbox port isn't being released until a few months after the pc version.. maybe someone'll make a pc mod in the meantime. co-op rox.

Well, I kept putting off buying a new computer for Doom III and half life 2...I guess once it's releaesed its time to buy a new "school" computer :sweat:

Sounds good. I believe that my pc still should be able to run this pretty well. And by the time this will be out, I shall finish both FarCry and Painkiller.

if anyone's wondering about their setup:

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Originally Posted by futuremark forum

Ursprungligen inskrivet av get_loud i futuremarks forum

Yeah, I was lucky enough to receive my copy today, so I'll share it with you guys.

1. 6800 is a tad faster than X800 cards. Both run it in full glory

2. The game has four render paths: NV10, NV20, R200, and ARB2. All paths look awesome, even down to a g4mx, but the ARB2 path is the "full package," and is used for the R300+ and Geforce FX+ cards. It does all it's fancy shit in one pass.

3. PCI Express enhances NOTHING.

4. The difference between a 128mb and 256mb card is that the former uses compressed textures whereas the latter only compresses diffuse and specualr maps. In another words, no big deal. However, a 500mb card is needed to run the game in Ultra Quality mode.

5. 512MB is the ideal system total memory. 384 is required, 1GB is nice, but the difference is negligible.

6. Nothing special is included for a 64-bit OS.

7. A 1.5 Ghz processor is the least recommended, but a 2Ghz and above will help since...

8...The sound engine is entirely CPU dependant. Therefore a crappy soundcard works flawlessly. Not to worry, the enfine only uses a "small percentage of cycles, much less than if the engine relied on a soundcard.

9. The only reccommendation regarding faster framerates is to disable to "advanced special effects option." In other words, upgrade if you have problems.

10. They tie it up by providing three levels of "Doom lovin' PC's"

Low-End:
1.5GhzP4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

Mid-Range:
2.4GhzP4 or equivalent
1GB RAM
Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT

High_End: Aka Hardware that doesn't exist, but best guess anyway
3.4GhzP4 or AMD equivalent
2GB RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE.

In conclusion, the game will run well on a variety of hardware, and Rob Duffy, the lead programmer, says that the game looks real good no matter what, and that it will continue to look better as hardware improves. Like all previous id engines, we'll be playing games based on D3 for another five years down the road.

Enjoy everybody!

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Man, I am smack in the mid-range.

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Originally Posted by Tain

There isn't a single id game I don't like

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You know... this is true of me too, and I think I've played all of them... Tiles of the Dragon was a pretty generic Shanghai clone with little value, so maybe I don't like that... But still, they have a pretty damned good record, and I've logged hours into almost everything they've done.

I want this, but it seems I'd need a new vid card and probably some more RAM, so I don't see it happening any time real soon. Eventually though.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Man, I am smack in the mid-range.

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Same here...