In response to another thread: Nope, I didn't like it. I cut my teeth on
Wolf3d and Doom, loved 'em. Quake annoyed me. Quake 3 I really didn't
like,
but enjoyed the Team Arena addon a lot. Unreal Tournament 2004's Onslaught
mode is great fun.
But Doom 3? Nah. The weapons were run of the mill. The Soul Cube was a
decent and moderately creepy concept, but nothing to write home about. It
was
the most evil-looking thing in the game, and it's the GOOD guy's weapon!
Monsters: Meh. The imp depressed me, since I was expecting that psycho
wall
crawler the trailers were pimping. No good - they're only moderately
brighter
than Doom 2 imps, and occur in smaller groups. The AI was generally
painful -
I found the same tricks I used to sucker monsters in the original Quake
worked
here. (If it doesn't have a ranged attack, it has a hard time with the Z
axis.
Jumping onto anything higher than a crate makes you almost invisible.
Worked
great on more than one trite horde.)
(And giving the revenant a body was just stupid. You don't need to explain
every bit of unholy magic with organic stuff.)
Level design: Painful. All halls with no internal logic. Obvious
linearity.
One-way blockoffs. Using cutscenes to force you into difficult situations
with little preparation. No less than five times do you have to follow
something somewhere, getting attacked at certain intervals like it was a
Halloween funhouse ride gone nuts. Monster closets, later augmented with
monster teleport spots. The outside areas were nice, but barely used.
And the toxic-barrel claw game was dumb. Maybe if I'd dropped barrels on
roaming imps to make my life easier....
Interface: Annoying. Listening to two minutes of rambling voice acting to
get
one locker code bugged me.
Final suggestion. Apparently there's a demo out:
http://www.gamershell.com/news/17335.html
Try before you buy. Even if you have to entice someone else with a heavy
system to run it, get an idea of what you're getting into before you drop
cash
on upgrades and games.
Len
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