doom 3 - official

[Destro777]

Got it this morning. The game is 100% awesome. Graphics, intensity, scares the whole bit, but man, the gameplay and the way the story is unfolding just screams half life to me. (health packs on walls, witnessing mysterious conversations through unbreakable windows). Its like Half Life ultra. I hope the enviroments change more, but im barely into the game so far.

Runs great on my Geforce FX5900 128mb too (50 - 70 fps). If anyone was wondering what im running it on.

[dave is ok]

Please people. More impressions

[Six]

Please people. More impressions

And system specs and maybe some screen shots

I don't want to shell out money yet if my computer can't run it worth a flip.

1.0 T-Bird with 512 PC133 and a Radeon 9500 Pro

[SonofdonCD]

Just let us know if it'll run on a cpu less than 1.5ghz. If that's the case, I'm golden.

[Ragnarok the Red]

I wonder if anyone is gonna have it cheaper than Circuit City this week, their selling it at $44.99 but won't have it until Friday. Hrm...

[MechDeus]

The beginning is incredible, it's like the start of HL where they pull into a day-to-day life and everything goes crazy but multiplied by a factor of 100. Shit starts coming from every direction as soon as it all goes wrong, things start climbing out of dark corridors, over railings, through stairwells, Doom III is like the single greatest scripted event known to videogames.

You get a PDA which is used for accessing email, voice recordings, passwords, and so on, but using it doesn't pause the game. If you've got it up creatures can still run up and pound you so make sure you're safe first. The surround sound is awesome, the voice acting is great, and the graphics are like a generation ahead of everything else. Watching the imps disentigrate when they die or witnessing a dead body getting smashed into pieces if it's caught in the path of an automatic doorway is just sweet, and one time I had to do a firefight against zombies where all I could see was their glowing eyes. That was creepy as shit. (Oh yeah, you can't use the flashlight and a gun at the same time, which makes a lot of the game was more tense.) One not-as-great thing: the lip-synching isn't as well done as some other games. Not that it's terrible (far from it) but that's just about the only graphical touch that doesn't destroy every other game.

I think head shots matter but not to any great degree, it seems like I can drop a zombie a bit faster aiming up high but I could be wrong. The shotgun is slow but with good stopping power and limited range (just how it should be) while the machinegun burns through ammo in a matter of seconds. I once noticed a zombie and decided to check around the corner before fighting it, but that caused an imp to give chase and then I saw three more zombies that I had looked past and was assaulted from all sides. In probably about ten seconds I lost all my armor, almost all my life, all my machine ammo, and a good chunk of shotgun shells (it was pretty much me spraying the area trying to kill everything at once). That's also the closest I've come to dying, normal difficulty has actually been pretty easy so far, although with a few more monsters around that could easily change real quick.

Also, the zombies. There's not just two or three kinds, there's bunches. Regular zombies, fat zombies, burning zombies (and are faster then regular zombies), runner zombies, and marine zombies which can be equipped with pistols, machineguns, or shotguns and actually employ some decent hit and hide tactics. Thank god they don't have grenades.

I don't want to shell out money yet if my computer can't run it worth a flip.

1.0 T-Bird with 512 PC133 and a Radeon 9500 Pro

The minimum is 1.5, so I don't think you can run it at all.

I'm using a 2600xp, 512 2700 333 RAM, and 9000 Pro 128 RAM and it runs pretty well, not great, but pretty well. It's never unplayable but has definately dipped down to the 20fps range during a couple Oh-Crap-Screw-Me assaults. This is at 640x480 with Medium Quality, but let me reiterate something real quick: Everyone has said that even at 640x480 this game is gorgeous. They're right. I'm a 1024x768 whore but I don't mind this in the slightest, everything looks so goddamn good that you won't even care.

[Javon_McCloud]

Very very creepy game. The entire begining sequence does smell of half life, but I thought that after you get into action it started to feel more like...well doom. I was playing last night with headphones on and the volume up and it is a very tense experience. Havn't tried multiplayer yet, maybe tonight. The game runs great, they locked the FPS at 60 ala Halo, but it still plays really well. I am not a fan however of the outrageous price tag. Even high profile games like far cry and Ut2k4 don't cost that much. Heck I got the UT2k4 special edition for less money. So far my empty wallet is my only complaint.

[Tain]

You know what's sad to watch?

My P3 600 running this game.

[cka]

Does it run like crap? I have a p3 750 and I want to try it, all I need is a boost of ram and a new video card... :O

[Tain]

Oh yeah. Very crap.

I'm talking 10 fps most of the time, hah. GeForce 4 Ti of some sort in this thing, as well as 640 ram. Oddly enough, bump mapping, the most drastic visual option, doesn't affect my fps at all. It looks alright, all things considered.

That said, I'll be cautiously overclocking the video card and the CPU today. Maybe I can get it to be playable.

As soon as I get a job and some cash, it's time for new hardware.