DOOM 3

Absolutely the inferior product when compared to the original Doom 3. This updated edition should never, ever have been made. So what's new here? - Narrower FOV. - Brightness has been cranked WAY up, destroying the ambience. - More health, ammo, and armor pickups, reducing the challenge. - Zooming is removed. - Armor decay is removed, reducing the challenge. - Cutscenes are now unskippable. - Many enemy encounters have been cut or changed. - Flashlight is mounted on weapons, destroying the ambience and reducing the challenge. Forget this trash. Play the original Doom 3.

Great deal for those that appreciate Doom 3. As for the complaints, you buy here for the data files (base & d3xp folders) then run the games with far newer and updated source port game engines. The games will run significantly better on modern systems, without any change to the gameplay. Source Ports Doom 3 - dhewm3 Doom 3 BFG - RBDOOM-3-BFG Can even run on a Mac (Apple Silicon & x64) thx to Mac Source ports with the game engines notarised by Apple.

The gameplay changes, lack of mac and linux versions, checkpoint save system, inferior Doom 1 and 2 sprites (like the health kit sprites), bad performance, and hidden multiplayer make this significantly inferior to the original and make the new features really not worth it. If you want to play an unadulterated Doom 1+2 experience, you should buy them separately (they can be bought here), and playing them through a good source port like GZDoom. If you want to play No Rest for the Living you can play it using the Doom Combined mod or by launching it with ZDL. It's a real shame that Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil aren't available in their original versions (likely due to licensing agreements with Bethesda). Either way, it's a real tragedy, as I wholeheartedly recommend getting the original disc version or finding it elsewhere (like Steam). The only real drawbacks the original has are less widescreen and modern hardware support, which can be fixed by using a sourceport like dhewm 3. If you have nothing else, this is worth playing, and the new campaign is nice, but overall if you can avoid it, I would highly recommend playing the original versions instead.

BFG may use an updated engine, but the graphics is actually far worse, because the consoles can't handle the game. Here are some examples of how shit it is. - Corpses no longer stack like real physics should, instead they just ignore each other and occupy the same space and overlap each other. - Most light effects are now fake, such as when you shoot a gun, the environment used to light up, now it's completely gone because it's a "fake" lighting effect. Other than that and many many more problems there's also the problem of the flashlight. The game was designed with the flashlight in mind, and one level even depended on it, where someone held a flashlight for you and you had to escort him. Now it's become a joke, since you have a flashlight 100% of the time, so that level, as well as other parts of the game, becomes a joke. And the mods that used to make doom3 break down your most expensive graphics card even today? Forget it, nobody bothered to make the mods for this new piece of crap called the BFG edition.

There is a doomkey file in the base directory, you have to delete it and look after the serial at the game page. If you have deleted the file you can give it the key manually, after this, everything will be ok.