A few design flaws mire what is otherwise a terrifying game that will surely start you repenting.
If you answered "yes" to any of these, then you are either going to love or hate Doom 3. Doom 3 is a first person shooter about a marine on Mars who discovers Hell through alien artifacts. That's the gist of it. The story, honestly, is a little.."meh" But the gameplay is a lot...."WOW".
Why? Because it is legitimately scary. The game is set up in such a way that you will be terrified of the dark every step of the way. Sure you have an arsenal of weaponry that would get you arrested anywhere in the country, but that's not enough to make you feel safe in the mysterious halls, and barracks of the Mars installation. Not when demons are coming in from a portal to hell. Not when zombies are lurking behind every corner. Not when blood is smeared on pretty much everything.
I honestly haven't been this scared playing a game in a long time. The pacing is great. As you progress into the game, you find that hell is taking over more and more of the installation. And it's VERY effective. It gets downright creepy at parts. Making you shiver. The graphics are great, as are the designs...making everything so scary that you'll want to cry. Maybe I'm a wuss, but it was a joyfully scary experience. I actually was breathing hard at a few places (this may or may not be due to the fact that I was playing at night in the dark, after accidentally summoning satan.....it's a long story).
Overall, the game is typical of what you would find in an FPS, cool guns, lots of corners, finding ammo, lot's of dying....that sort of thing. It's just done artfully and skillfully....well, for the most part.
The one problem with the game is there are a few design flaws. There were more than a couple of times where I had NO idea where to go or what to do. Which caused frustration, which caused me wasting ammo on shooting everything in sight in rage. Plus, there are a few places where the game designers thought they were making a platformer, and not a first person shooter. This again, caused more wasted ammo, and made ME the scariest thing in the game as I started cursing in tongues.
Another problem everyone seems to complain about, is the idea that you can't have a flashlight on your gun. So if you want to see what's in the dark, you have to switch to the flashlight. At first I hated this. But as I played more and more, I liked the idea...because it makes it that much scarier to have to put your gun away, and then look in the dark, and pray to god almighty that something isn't waiting there to eat your brains and marry your daughter.
But despite those few flaws, this game is awesome. It's scary. It's pretty. It's feels goods to plays. So if you're afraid of things like the dark and hell and aliens, I highly recommend playing this game. If you're afraid of things like clowns and pickles, might I recommend a day care center.