The plot and voice acting are actually not that bad considering the rather ridiculous premise, and the graphics hold up okay as long as you squint a litte.ĭoom 3 still excels at providing a world in which to blast the hell out of demons, and lots of them. The shooter gameplay is solid and responsive, particularly as developer id Software has ensured the player can turn on their light and shoot at the same time - something which was lacking in the original release - and is pretty much essential considering the constant gloom. There is always someone or something hiding in the shadows, and you soon learn the game's bag of tricks.ĭoom 3 is still a fun game to play. You can see the level design signposts a mile off, and so they lack the sense of impact. Whilst there are some scares here, there is a real predictability to the campaign. The game takes itself seriously, yet at times slips into parody. The cookie-cutter horror would not be so much of an issue if Doom 3 was not such a humourless affair. The Martian base instantly turns into a horror house filled with bloody corpses at every corner and the player quickly gets gore fatigue. There is not a great degree of subtlety going on here, which may seem a slightly ridiculous gripe considering this is Doom we are talking about. Over its lengthy campaign, Doom 3 plays out its particular form of carnage mostly in tight, oppressive corridors of a research facility, generally cloaked in the inky shroud of darkness. Soon, the forces of hell invade, turn everyone into zombies and generally cause merry havoc.

Taking the role of an anonymous marine, it becomes very quickly clear to the player that things are not tickety-boo on the base.

Instead, you get a shooter that is well made and still very playable as a horror shooter, but also somewhat lacking when compared to more recent titles.ĭoom 3 unfurls on a base on Mars run by the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), a sinister company with unlimited resources that can pretty much do anything it wants. However, on revisiting 2005's Doom 3, the game strangely lacks the same sense of personality and flair.

This pretty much tells you all you need to know about the Doom series it is ridiculous, destructive, crude and brilliant.ĭoom 1 and Doom 2, included in the BFG package, are rightly considered classics of the genre and deserve their place in the shooter Hall of Fame. The titular 'BFG' does not refer to Roald Dahl's loveable Big Friendly Giant, but the 'big f**king gun' that has appeared in each instalment. But on the other, the actual headlining release, Doom 3, is now seriously showing its age. On the one hand, this is the ultimate package of what is a true legend in the world of first-person shooters. Platforms available on: PlayStation 3, PCĭoom 3: BFG Edition is a tricky game to assess.

Release Date: October 19 (Europe), October 16 (North America)

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