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Summary: Be Afraid. Be Very, Very Afraid.
Comment: Having played the PC version first, I bought an Xbox 360 and Doom 3 to play on it first. If you have heart problems, don't even bother playing this game unless you want to wind up in the emergency room. It will definately scare the hell out of you. Otherwise, the graphics are out of this world, the mood and setting will definately keep you on edge the whole time you play. Keep in mind I've only played on the beginners level. I'm afraid to try the tougher ones. Just kiddin'. I'm excited and apprehensive about taking that journey on the next level. Two Thumbs Up!
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Summary: Great game, taht can work on your 360 if you get the update
Comment: This game is awesome. Immerse yourself in the chaotic world of Doom. Learn to use your weapon with deadly accuracy to mow down hells minions. You can get an XBOX 360 update disc for free from XBOX.com or call and give them your console information and they will gladly mail you a copy free of charge, so you can play this game and others on your console.
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Summary: death, destruction and DOOM!!!!!!
Comment: The game came in the mail, one day, I opened it up, examined it, and found it arrived in the condition promised. I've already beat the game on the first 2 difficulty levels. Pyah!!!
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Summary: It's Fun And Thats All That Matters
Comment: Doom 3 is yet another wonderful example of just how entertaining video games really are.With 40 levels of demon blasting,chainsaw wielding goodness, there is much fun to be found in doom 3.Just like titles such as: Halo 2, Chronicles of Riddick and Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory, Doom 3 uses "normal mapping technology" to bring an unprecedented sence of realism to the game's environments.Along with looking absolutely realistic the sound of the game is astounding, adding an enormous amount of tention to the player's experience by provoking emotions of fear and terror at what could be around the next dark corner.A large array of weapons is also at the player's disposal.With such weapons as rocket launchers,mini-guns,shotguns,pistols,chainsaws,grenades,assault rifles and the "BFG"-(Bio Force Gun),gamers will have no trouble mowing down the countless hordes of demons that vie for the players soul.Along with a single player experience that lasts 20+ hours, there multiplayer is compromised of the usual modes found in action games such as: deathmatch,team deathmatch,capture the flag and ect.In conclusion: Doom 3 is seemingly the perfect package, With a single player experience that lasts over 20 hours,huge weapons,thousands of enemies,unbelievable graphics and sound,solid multiplayer and an excellent storyline, Doom 3 is an action game that rivals the best and should not be missed.
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Summary: Doom 3: Not what the hype says, but still pretty good
Comment: I picked this game up a few years after it was released, and I waited and bought it used for the X-box for less than 20USD. I further waited until I had an X-box 360 before I started to play it! I figured Doom 3's engine wouldn't be handled very well by the original X-box, so I waited till I picked up a 360, judging by some reviews, this was probably a pretty smart move.
Now I've been playing the original Doom games for a while, and for them to finally release another Doom game years after those... well I was expecting something pretty huge. The story-line, and yes, this one does have a bit more of a story-line, is a little weak. Though I did like how they had tidbits of the mystery of the gates in there, and playing up the occult aspect was a very smart move. They maintained the same premise of the other games where the goal is to escape wherever it is you're in. I guess Doom II was a little different in the sense that your main objective was to kill everything, but you still had to get out of there! It is a fairly tiring concept, but it's been a very long time since Doom II, so it wasn't too tedious on this one.
For those people saying that there is NO story-line, they are pretty much wrong. You have to listen to all the PDA's you collect and interact with the rest of the environment as well to get into it. You can certainly ignore all these items and play a very boring shooting game pretty quicly, but I prefer looking around and exploring games. I played through the game pretty thoroughly and listend to all of these. I thought the PDA thing was an excellent addition to the game, to help move a story into it. I thought that kind of interface was sort of influenced by Marathon's original system, but hey, I wasn't expecting anything original. I'm not entirely sure how well Doom 3 played into the sequence of where Doom II left off. It looks like this Doom I remade, because the events feel like it's just at the beginning. In Doom II the Earth was overrun, so it's not like the gateways on Mars' moons were a secret! That's really the main complaint I have about the story, I can't figure out where it belongs sequentially.
As far as game play is concerned; it's pretty good for 20 bucks. I don't know if I would've paid full price for this in retrospect, but it was definitely worth what I paid. Like other reviewers have mentioned, it is definitely way too dark. That doesn't make the game ominious or scary, it makes it annoying! The flash light function is probably worst part of this game design... and pretty much why I gave it a four. It's as if in the future we suddenly lost the technology on how to attach a light on a gun or a helmet. Maybe in this technological downfall they also lost the technology to manufacture Dukt Tape, further decreasing the ability to attach a light on the muzzle of a gun!*
Other than the flash light situation that really made me angry... this game was pretty fun. It's not Half Life 2 or Halo by any measure, but it occupied my time and I didn't feel it was excruciating to get through. I'm not sure how much replay value it really has in the end, but I think it's worht going through once. For those who complained about the repetitiveness of Doom probably haven't played the other games very much. Doom is a fairly repetitive game... that's what it is, if you don't like that, don't get this game. You have similar goals to get to different areas in order to finally get all the way out! It's like going through a giant maze, which is how these games have always been designed. I thought it was a pretty good game overall, not five star, but it was definitely enjoyable enough.
*TECHNOLOGICAL DOWNFALL: Agent Ben M. met with me about the sequence of events that led to this heinous problem of Flash Lights. It turns out; in the year 2008 the Doom II story-line actually happened. As a result the Bush administration was elected to an unprecedented (as far as future history is concerned) third term. During this time, Bush sought a seer, and she foretold of a future plagued by a lack of Flash Lights. So, Bush in his desire for supreme greed, he bought up all the Flash Light making companies and he ordered the shut down of all Duct Tape manufacturing. This would forever make the peoples dependent on the U.S. government. After many years without these items, humans soon forgot the technology. The patent for Duct Tape was lost as the U.S. administration changed over the decades. Agent M. was one of the few people to see the archives kept on this development and he relayed this secret story to me via [...]. In the end, we are now doomed to carry guns that cannot have Flash Lights attached to them. The Bush legacy is now the richest and most powerful in the universe; the Duct Tape & Flash Lights are the key... as the sacred seer relayed. Agent M is rumored to have seen this seer, and it is possible she is immortal.
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