This game takes aloy of criticism, but i think its a great game, fun, violent and truly terrifying at times

User Rating: 9.1 | DOOM 3 PC
By Kebn | Review Date:
This game is not for the faint of heart, the paranoid or the weak stomached. Playing this game alone in the dark with headphones at full blast is one of the most enjoyable if un-nerving experiances you can have with a game, while many players of the game wont admit to being freaked out, deep down its hard not to be, the opressive indoor settings really set a gritty and true sci-fi horror mood for the whole game, (the fact that the game is all indoors will put alot of people off, but the game wouldnt have as much horror apeal as it does otherwise) Its a true thriller of a game and very entertaining, and playing it on your own is very different than have someone in the room watching you play it. Having a decent set of headphones is very useful, for not only improving the sound, but to alert you to enemies lurking behind you, which happens alot.

THE STORY - this game is basically a remake of the origional, you are a soldier deported to mars to work at the Union Aerospace Corporation complex in Mars city (labs that conduct experiments seen as inhumane on earth), an experiment to open a teleportation field between the planet an the 2 moons of mars, phobos and deimos has resulted in the gates of hell being opened and the struggle for survival begins.

SOUND/GRAPHICS - The graphics in this game are stunning, although i dont care what a games graphics look like. The sound is very good, apart from the guns, they just dont have the 'umpf' they should have.

GAMEPLAY - Dark, really, really dark! the lights in the facility often fail causing you to have to use your flash light which is separate to your gun (this gets alot of criticism too, but its one of the reasons the game is so creepy, and i like it) random corpses can rise from the dead and rogue survivors can turn on you at any second, you cant trust anything! The style of the game is really old school, staying true to the origional doom games, you are alone for most of the game, the enemies are fast and very effective when it comes to killing things, and the variations of enemies are quite large again sticking to the origional doom monsters. one of the coolest things about this game is the amount of different zombie models used, you rarely see 2 zombies that look exactly alike, if you do theyre so far apart in the game that you dont notice.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS - very cool, good action, wonderfully violent, chilling and creepy settings/locations

LASTING IMPRESSIONS - no real change ^^ overall a very fun game to play

PROS - terrifyingly fun, exciting, decent length, challenging enough, wonderful graphics, good variations of enemies

CONS - guns dont sound very powerful (a mod can fix that), multiplayer isnt great, its really not suited to everyone

this is just my opinion, the game has its flaws which some might take more of a dislike to than others, but overall this is a game worth getting if you enjoy a good survival horror game, be sure to check out other reviews that destroy this game too, to get their views on the game

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