'Marine, prepare for the most boring assignment of your life.'- Yeah, right. (Doom 3 (PC))

Member Name: hewhoisme

Product:	Doom 3 (PC)
Date:	18/05/09 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: Intense gameplay, incredible graphics, and terrfying enemies

Disadvantages: The BFG 9000 can kill you in enclosed spaces

Back in 2004 I remember buying Doom 3 for my new PC, and it still remains one of my favourite first person shooters of all time.

Doom 3 is essentially a complete reboot of ID's 90's Doom games, although the basic plot remains unchanged. You play as an unnamed marine stationed on the UAC research facility on Mars, for what you are told is to be 'the most boring assignment of your life.' Of course, fate has other ideas. It's only a matter of minutes before an experimental teleporting program goes horribly awry, and in a classic 'divide by zero' moment you find yourself knee deep in zombies and other assorted biomechanical ghoulies. Oh and to make matters worse, they come from hell. Yeah...

Although Doom 3 may be based on the 1993 landmark platform game a lot has changed since then, including the graphics. Doom 3 leaps out of the screen in brilliant 3D, putting the clunky pixelated mutants of the earlier franchise to shame. The game also weaves in a healthy dose of the scare factor, using various little tricks such as falling corpses, flickering shadows, distant screams and footsteps, and a thoroughly inhospitable environment to keep you on the edge of your seat. In fact you often find yourself involuntarily tensing your trigger finger (or this case trigger button) at every corner, since more often than not they'll be something horrible behind it. Doom 3 also has a much larger environment than the previous games, taking players throughout the expansive hallways and air ducts of the UAC facility, as well as allowing space walks, and even a short trip into hell itself.

Of course, some things never change. The classic Doom monsters, such as the Imps and the zombies, play a large role throughout the story, along with a barrage of other mindless horrors, which by the look of them were all designed by someone with a very sick imagination, not that I'm complaining of course. Naturally the games signature weapon, the legendary BFG 9000, is back in full force, which along with other classics such as the chainsaw and the pulse rifle make your fight for survival just a little bit easier. The controls are easily mastered and the multiplayer mode allows a new dimension to the Doom experience, allowing you to lock horns with other players rather than the hellish undead.

All in all Doom 3 is a fantastic game, which I would recommend to any fan of the FPS survival/horror genre. It might not be the most intellectual of games, but I can think of no better way of passing the time than putting a shotgun in an Imps face.

Summary: Probably one of the best shooters of all time. No fan should be without it