Doom Doom Doom.
Doom Cube.

But then again, most people prefer to pronounce it as Doom Three.

Yet another exciting review from your hot, spicy, sweaty, and tired, Gamemaster. Doom3 is a horror first-person shooter game for the PC. I doubt there would be any release for consoles [mwahahaha].

Point, shoot, dodge. Three main elements in almost any FPS there is. Fortunately, Doom3 goes way beyond that border. We’ll discuss that later, because I’d like to enlighten you on the tale behind Doom3.

Doom3 is a remake of the original Doom that was THE hit of 1993. THe current year is 2031, and mankind has colonized Mars. A bigass space corporation is running a lab for RnD for various science breakthroughs there. Among them is the technology of dimensional teleportation.

You play a marine, a hard one. You were stationed on Mars for your next duty. However, something went wrong throughout the course of the teleportation research, as monsters, and hiedous creatures come pouring through the Gateways. The research facility gets attacked, civillian turned into mindless zombies, and guess what? Power failure.

What monsters are you fighting, exactly? Well, I ain’t spoiling the story for you. But rest assured, there will be lots of gore, blood, and creepy noises in the dark.

On to game, Doom is, well….nice. Play it for the first time, and you might go “Holy fuck that scared the shit outta my pants!!”. But once you know what’s waiting behind that door, it’s not that much fun anymore. Weapons, weapons, weapons…yeh. One of the major elements in Doom3 happen to be its weapons.

Your regular pistol, shotgun, SMG, plasma bla bla bla…we’re used to that stuff in CS alreay, so I’ll move on to the REAL weapons. Rejoice, O People, for the BFG [Big Fucking Gun] and the Cahinsaw have returned! BFG can now fire a hyper-charged blast instead of the single-cell shots of previous BFGs.

Chainsaw? Well, if you didn’t play Doom, then I’ll forgive because the Cahinsaw is just too much fun to miss. Hell, I chainsawed through a boss!! Chainsaw needs no ammo, chainsaw needs no reload. You just have to just keep revving it and ram it into the first maniac you see.

Still the best weapon is I think the most original I have ever seen. The Soul Cube. It’s a cube [duh] that kills a target unit instantly, and returns the health of that unit to you! However, the Soul Cube is alive, and it requires sacrifices to use. 5 souls are to be taken before every usage, but hell, the only things you’d be sacrificing are monsters and demons, so why worry?

Of course, the most noticeable part of the entire game, is the graphics. It features a highly advanced physics and dynamics engine. This simply means, movements are a whole lot more realistic. A headshot sends a monster falling flat on its back. If the killing blow hits the leg, it’s knee bends and falls on its face. A shotgun to the chest and you might get a corpse rolling down a flight of stairs gracefully.

I must warn you, Doom3, is not for the faint hearted. If you can’t handle sudden shocks, or afraid or hearing hisses and growls in the dark, saty away. Oh, another note, this is a VERY demanding software. You will need a minimum of 512MB of RAM and at least 2.0GHz of processing power. Your VGA card also needs to be a powerful one, at a 128MB one. Any less, you’ll get a choppy framerate when the fight starts.

Doom3 doesn’t work out so well in multiplayer. It lacks secondary fire, bots and maps. Though it IS open for modding, I doubt it can surpass the Modders’ dream of tweaking Half-life 2.

Simply speaking, Doom3 is worth the play. But not worth the repeat. Seriously, it’s frustrating when waste a lot of ammo or when you’re walking around in the dark with low health and ammo. As I said, the thrill only omes in the first time, and more and you’ll bore the hell out of your PC.