doom 3 - official

[sethsez]

Am I the only person who gets a bit of a Doom 64 vibe from this?

[Rumpy]

You mean all of the darkness? This game is just downright ridiculous. I love finding new email and voice messages. A real Resident Evil "things are weird here...what's going on" kind of thing. 98% of the people that worked on the base had no idea what kind of shit was going down there. I still can't get over how damn good this game looks and I'm playing it a mile from max options.

[Despair]

Ok, spent whole evening setting it up, tweaking some option, and even got some time to actually play it a bit.

The game does look nice, and frame rate is decent, after I went to tweak the cgf file. My 9700 Pro seems to handle it rather well, and gig of ram does help the job. I did have couple of instances of sound completely dissapearing, and I had to restart the game (and my pc) to get it back. Kinda weird.

I have it on High with 1024x768 or whatever the number is, and with some AA(4 I think), and as I was saying it runs well enough.

My setup is:

Athlon XP 2700+
1 Gig of Corsair XMS 333mhz ram running dual
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro with some OC

Still, I wish the game was more interractive(especially the environments) on the level of FarCry. Here everything looks pretty, but you dont really damage anything, and for example bullet holes from the gun when you shoot the wall, is a friggin black stain, instead of actual hole, and the smoke animation is not all that hot either

Also some of the enviroments were a bit jaggy/pixely without use of AA, but once I set mine to 4x, it definately improved.

[Yoshi]

The Gamespot review is up. Since I was waiting for Circuit City to get it in, I haven't committed the $45 yet, and this review makes me question whether I would be better off finally getting FarCry.

[Rumpy]

The first wave of mods:

http://www.gamershell.com/news/14535.html

[MechDeus]

Couple quick comments:

Why is he unable to hold a gun and the flashlight at the same time?

It's pretty obvious why he can't hold any gun besides the pistol and a flashlight at the same time. The proper question is: Where's the duct tape?

Why are the UAC's small, spiderlike sentry drones so incredibly powerful? You'll see these helpful little guys rip through droves of hellspawn even faster than you can. If the base's defenses are so tough, then why is everyone so worried, and why is everyone getting killed?

For a guy who complained about having to read and listen to so many notes he sure didn't pay attention to what they were saying.

The old Doom Bible just popped into my head. I had totally forgotten about that, but thinking about it I realized that Doom III has a lot of everything they wanted to do back then with Doom (aside from the multiple characters). Kinda interesting.

[Tommy Tallarico]

In case anyone missed it from Sound Off.

[Tain]

Coop. Nice.

[epmode]

In case anyone missed it from Sound Off.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...hone/doom3.jpg

nice.

just one more day until i can play it..

[dave is ok]

Be sure to change the config file, it's the first tweak listed here I think, changing the number "20" under seta_Cache meg or whatever to "96" bumped my framerate up from 20-40 to 35-65