Fortunately, with our in-depth video review and uncut high-res movies, you'll get all you wanted to see and more. Video Review Activision kept such a tight lid on Doom 3 that hardly any direct-feed footage has been released. I was having a great time being in that environment while mindlessly blasting mindless creatures. The action was fairly repetitive and AI was not the most impressive (I'll get more into my thoughts about that in a minute), but by the end of the game, I just didn't care. The shift in opinion was towards the positive however, mainly to do with the increasing level of creepiness, the fact that the art actually kept getting better than it was at the beginning and the pacing was very good. It turns out, the first impressions I wrote the other day were not too far off to my final opinions of the game. Eleven years later, id has finished developing its remake of the original game, this time with a state-of-the-art graphics engine and a lot of talented people.

First-person shooters were still just a twinkle in the gaming industry's eye, and DOOM, while not the first of them, really kicked the genre into high gear. The original DOOM, when released in 1993 on DOS, helped to start a wave that swept PC gaming. I was drawn in and addicted almost completely from the moment that nameless marine arrived at Mars City to the moment the final credits began rolling. While I don't appreciate those types of shooters as much as I used to, it didn't really matter. Certainly, that's what id was trying to do, and they've done it. Without the atmosphere, DOOM 3 is a plain shooter that hearkens back to those of the '90s. Playing this on a 5.1 surround sound in the dark is an intense experience that, if possible, must be enjoyed. Even Far Cry's impressive vistas and wonderful environments can't stand up to the artistic and technical might of this sensory feast. DOOM 3 is extremely immersive with about as perfect a presentation as I've ever seen in a game. Not necessarily for the gameplay aspects, but for the fact that my eyes and ears never went a moment without being completely entertained.

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