14 years later: thoughts on Doom 3?

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mjk45 said:

curl-6 said:
I'm quite surprised every vote so far is for okay to great given how much of a backlash there was against the game back in the day.
I guess it's one of those games that's grown more liked over time.

What I really liked was the atmosphere it reminded me of being in a horror movie, but that didn't contrast to well with the badass space marine wiping out hell vibe of Doom.

Yeah that seems to be pretty much the consensus, that it's good for what it is, but what it is isn't what people want/expect from a Doom game.

SammyGiireal said:

The OG XBOX was a beast Doom 3 along with Riddick and HL2 was one of those games you knew your PS2 and the GC wouldn't be able to handle.

As well as being crazy powerful for its time, the Xbox was also much closer to PC architecture than the PS2 and Gamecube were, which helped a lot. Doom 3 also plays into a lot of the console's strengths, leveraging shaders and per-pixel lighting over high polygon counts.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 25 November 2018