A new horror awaits players who dare to go into the darkness of Doom 3.
The game attempts to recreat the original 1990 experience and it certainly succeeds. The game's cool graphics and creepy sounds make it a awesome gameplay to experience in dark places.
But what the game lacks is variety. In a genre already saturated with FPS games, Doom does offer any inovations. It plays safe, using its old gameplay from 1994. That's not exactly bad, but with games like FarCry and even Thief III, one can wonder why id Software didn't make any inventive features like the one's that made FPSs the way they are today, like they did with Wolf 3d, Doom 2 and Quake.
Anyway, the game has pretty scary enemies and even better environments. You'll always be in the dark in Mars, so you'll be carrying a flashlight along with your weapons. The weapons range from the powerful shotgun to the almost useless BFG 9000. All of the old weapons got makeovers, as did the monsters, with new additions in both departments. In the weapons, you'll get a Halo-like machine gun. While with the enemies, along with original bosses, cherubs are an interesting new enemy to be mentioned: they have baby bodies but carry long scythe-like hands. They creep up on you and quickly slash your head off. If your not nimble, you'll suffer a big hit.
Doom 3 is a worthy addition to anyone's game library. It does not offer any new features AND it is quite a system hog, but it's well worth the effort to play it. If you don't own a powerful PC, consider getting the Xbox version that I reviewed.
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