Unfortunately, DOOM 3 is too full of itself to offer you something you've never seen before other than visual eye-candy.

User Rating: 8 | DOOM 3 PC
By LTM360 | Review Date:
The DOOM franchise is known by most, if not all gamers. This latest installment features some amazing technology to create some of the most realistic environments video-gaming has seen. In DOOM 3 you start off as a lone soldier landing on Mars and reporting to his station. When asked to find a scientist, you find he's opened a portal to Hell, and.... well all Hell has broken loose, literally. And, spoiler or not, that's the story for you. Nothing special, so if the Story is nothing, the game needs some serious gameplay right? Wrong. DOOM 3 sticks with what works, or what "worked" from when the original DOOM was released long long ago. Your Marine Soldier wil be armed with a ridiculous arsenal of weaponry, which shows this game also has no need for at least some realism, which is interesting since you lose health for falling, or run at a regular speed, which begs the question, "How does he carry all those big guns?". Anyway, you'll begin the game armed with a measly pistol which will serve no purpose whatsoever after you very soon after retrieve the shotgun, which sadly becomes the games powerhouse weapon. The BFG-9000 returns to DOOM and still will destroy anything in its path, and by the time you find it, it won't serve much purposed based on the weapon you must use to close the gate of Hell. The standard Rocket Launcher, Machine Gun, and Plasma gun are here, but don't do anything to differentiate themselves from other games. Pretty basic here in terms of weaponry, and, as said, the only one you should care about is your trusty shotgun. The gameplay also tries to "scare" you. Which more or less turns into, "woah" that kinda made me move the mouse and now I can't see my enemy. You'll never jump out of your seat, or refuse to play the game in pure fear, rather become frustrated by the fact you jumped and can't find your enemy. The gameplay suffers a serious problem with repetition. While the areas do change from time to time, the enemies do not. You'll range about 10 different enemies, and a few bosses. It just becomes a chore after a while to continue killing the same enemies with the same weapons. As everyone pretty much knows, DOOM 3 is gorgeous, and requires a pretty nice graphics card to do everything the game can do. The lighting effects are absolutely spectacular. Dark areas work extremely well forcing you to use your, well represented, flashlight. Which provides more "scare" tactic, and wonderful lighting effects. The game also is pretty interactive, so you can shoot out lights, and things of that nature. Another nice lighting touch is the enemies all have glowing red eyes which look very good while in dark areas. DOOM 3 also supports a great soundtrack, and as unoriginal the weapons maybe, the sounds are great. Each weapon does have a very unique sound that is easily known. The screeches of your Hell-spawn foes, again, while not terrifying, they still are pretty nice. Althought the game doesn't feature much talking, what there is, is well-done. The music is something that can also be enjoyed, but has some slight repeatition problems. DOOM 3 doesn't offer any replayability whatsoever. It does feature online deathmatch, but that's it. That is also incredibly stale given the games that offer immense multi-player today. The deathmatch is nothing special at all, and the maps aren't either. The multi-player is not worth your time given the fact every other online game has better deathmatch than DOOM 3. Overall DOOM 3 is recommended to anyone who has the hardware to play the game. The game could've been much better than it was, but unfortunately, DOOM 3 is too full of itself to offer you something you've never seen before other than visual eye-candy.

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