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[Ned Flanders]

I mean the action seems like standard shooter fare so far, and the gfx tech seems about on par with Riddick, which is to say, about as good as you can ask for on a current gen console FPS (playing the X-Dude version), but man, they nailed the atmosphere with a fucking railgun.

The audio is superb..textures on sound effects, garbled comuniques from Marines in mid-firefight with hellspawn, ambient noises..its just all perfectly disconcerting. The artwork gives everything that Aliens/Alien 3 combination of techno-gore-splatter that makes you fear each new room before anything even pops out at you.

In all it seems like a perfect rental so far...not challenging my conceptions of anything (controls feel right at home, weapons, enemies, and basic gameplay are immediately understood), but giving me a truly immersive setting/experience to sink my teeth into for a while. Funny how some games don't really need to do a whole lot of new things to appeal to you, they just have to do certain things well.

 

[dark10x]

That was actually one of the biggest disappointments for me. I enjoyed the game, but did not find it scary. They need to realize that what you can't see is much scarier. When any sort of enemy was ready to attack you, they would literally warp into the map. There is no buildup or suspense. I think it would have been much more intense had the enemies been placed into the world and allowed to wander. Knowing they are present and trying to escape would have been more thrilling (look at System Shock 2 or Silent Hill for examples).

It's a very solid game, though.

 

[Bog]

Xdude lives.

 

[ChrisReid]

All my friends thought it was terribly scary. Could only play it in 20 minute bursts before I had to take a break.

 

[Demigod Mac]

Doom 3 is terrifying until you get used to it.

 

[DCX]

Doom 3 is terrifying until you get used to it.

This is teh winning statement...

DCX

 

[Speevy]

Looks good, plays/completes like a weekend rental.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

Don't worry - the scary wears off. Actually, everything wears off. The fun especially IMO.

 

[fartblast]

Doom 3 was one of the most enjoyable games I played last year (PC). The sound was incredibly well done and the weapons, while pretty simple, were really fun to use. I loved how the areas kept getting cooler the further you went and all. It was also a pretty lengthy game for an fps- I probably played it for upwards of 20 hours before finally beating it, but it really sort of had this climactic feel to it that no one really seemed to appreciate or notice at all, and when I went to hell and back, that was insane shit! I never got around to finishing the expansion though, I'll prolly do that when I get a new video card.

 

[ToyMachine228]

I own Doom 3 on the PC, and I enjoyed it, but it was still a disapointment. After the first 4 or 5 hours, the game just wears thin and gets a bit repetitive.

 

[Kolgar]

I'm playing this one too, and enjoying it even more than the PC version last year.

Vicarious Visions pulled off one hell of a conversion on Xbox. DOOM3 makes a GREAT console game.

I think part of the reason I'm enjoying this game so much is I was so underwhelmed by the other "big" FPSs last year - Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and Far Cry. Granted, Riddick was awesome - I played on Xbox and wound up buying the PC version too - but the others, in my opinion, didn't live up to the hype.

DOOM3 may not be rocket science, but it's good, atmospheric fun. Just wait until you see hell. And don't forget to play co-op Live with a friend. I wasn't expecting much, but it turned out to be a piece of gaming Nirvana.