DOOM 3

I typically enjoy first person shooters, and if you do too, you'll like Doom 3. It isn't a bad game, but it has its share of weird frustrations. It's too dark, too often. I understand that it's a design choice to make the game so dark, and it really does create a great, creepy atmosphere, but it also gets annoying really fast. At least in the BFG Edition, we can use the flashlight at all times, even with weapons. The experience is different from previous Doom games in that it's a slower crawl instead of an all out gun fest, although the last third of the game or so does bring the fast paced action back a little bit. The first two thirds are all about entering rooms, waiting for the "jump scare" enemy spawns, rinse and repeat. Still fun, but it gets predictable and the enemies seem like more of an inconvenience to your trip around the base than they do an actual threat. The color coded key cards of old have been replaced with different PDA's from dead UAC base members. The story is predictable and basically just a retelling of the original Doom. However, much of it is told through the video logs and emails that you find on the PDA's scattered throughout the base, or by finding one of the few remaining living members of the science team. Nothing groundbreaking but it does what it's supposed to do. I enjoyed my play through. I don't think it quite lives up to the Doom legacy, but it's such a different experience that it's not a totally fair comparison. The real star of the show here are the lighting effects and shadows and what not... personally, I don't really care about the technical or graphical side of things nearly as much as I do the basic game play, and that's where Doom 3 misses the mark. But it only misses it by a little, and it's still worth playing if you're a fan of FPS games.

Not my favorite DOOM, but still excellent in my opinion!

Doom 3 is different from the previous two titles by a country mile, but that is not a bad thing. Doom 3 takes a different approach to what was established formula and does its own thing by feeling like a survival horror game. Ammo is pretty scarce in this game and you are more than likely always scavenging for more ammo, armor, and health kits on Mars City. In some areas where you leave the city and go into the surface of Mars you notice you have a limited air supply but this isn't as much of a nuisance as you would think it would be because these sections are over quickly or their are multiple air canisters around the area. These changes are positive and work well for the most part. The only problems I have with this game is the constant jump scares that happen almost every few minutes. What I mean by this is that sometimes Enemies will usually pop out of closed off closets and rooms and will immediately take off a good few points of your health. Their are times when you can see some of these coming from a mile away but other times you can't see them coming. Now this wouldn't be a problem if they didn't happen all of the time. The ones that you can see I have no problem with like if you are about to walk in a door to the next area and a few Marines pop out to take a few shots that isn't a problem. The ones that are annoying are when Imps come out of places that you wouldn't even think to look for enemies or walls that flip open that you didn't even notice were doors. That is really the only problem I have with this game and if you are ok with this, then try this game out. I do not know how Doom fans felt about this game when it came out. Don't know if they loved it or hated it but I have to say that I like this game. Not one of my favorite games ever but is a good game to fall back into every not and again.

I need to start off by saying that all the hate leveled at BFG edition over vanilla Doom 3 is overblown. Most criticism comes in the form that DOOM 1/2 are "censored", and that the experience is "consolized" (meaning limited options menu). Time to address these first. The "censorship" in DOOM 1/2 comes in the form of Nazi imagery (only found in some hidden levels) being removed and the red-cross on the medkits changed to a red and white pill. That's it. Both games are fully intact here and feature updated controls for a modern kb+m setup. DOOM 2 even has an additional level that was previously unavailable. As for the "consolized" argument. This is somewhat true. The options menu is far more limited compared to vanilla DOOM 3. However, the essentials are here. Rebindable keys, FOV slider, 60fps/120fps toggle, Vsync, antialiasing, etc. It doesn't really bother me as the game is set up to run well on most modern PCs and I'm not that picky with my graphics options. However, what did bother me is the lack of subtitles and the fact that the FOV only goes up to 100. There are some console commands available to get around these somewhat. My only other complaint is that the ports of DOOM 1/2 do not support rebindable keys. All this aside, these games are feature complete and most importantly feel good to play. This is easily the best looking and smoothest version of DOOM 3 available. BFG edition actually comes with some great features that vanilla DOOM 3 didn't have such as native 16:9 widescreen support and XInput controller support. Be warned that in the GOG version of DOOM 3 BFG, MULTIPLAYER IS DISABLED. So if that is a selling point for you, get the Steam version instead. LAN multiplayer can still be enabled through console commands though.

well for the pack is worth it. quality wise you can notice a deacy from 1 to 3 but every game has its strengths. when doom 3 came out there was nothing to compare to it so i witnessed the impact that it had on the gaming comunity. for me is still a good game and certainly more scary than most horror games ever made. the other two are the icing on the cake of this pack.