Posted on: January 28, 2023

Woodentusk
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 4
This game killed Doom for 11 years
Do you enjoy: • Creatures that, thanks to their teleporting, negate all tactical planning? Not being able to plan ahead, because you can guarantee that a creature will teleport in out of nowhere, usually right next to you? • Creatures that come from inaccessible vents, who are invisible and invincible until they attack? • Creatures that soak up all splash damage, ensuring their allies survive a rocket blast? • Narrow corridors of the same tileset, with so few large spaces you forget what it's like to see beyond ten metres? • Every creature being the same blue-grey colour? EVERY CREATURE. • Monsters whose sole purpose to wait behind a door in expectation that someone will open it and they can leap out at them? • Simultaneously hearing three overlapping, unrepeatable speech tracks with no subtitles? • Going through the same room ten times? And... • Clearing the same room ten times, one enemy at a time? Like, bang, one down, zap, new enemy teleports in, bang, zap, bang, zap... • Learned helplessness: the feeling that nothing you do matters and nothing you do can change anything, you're just on a railroad and you don't "do", you are "done to"? Then this game is for you! Now with no automap at all at no extra cost! Doom 3 spits on the legacy and innovation that the earlier games built. I enjoyed the earlier games, even the hideous, torturous "oho look how smart I am" Sandy Petersen levels (sometimes). The only thing good about this version is that it comes with Doom 1 and Doom 2. Doom 3 came out in 2004, the expansion in 2005. No new Doom game would come out on PC until 2016. It's a miracle that Doom 3 didn't kill all love for the series entirely. Do not buy Doom 3. Maybe buy Doom 3 BFG edition if you want Doom 1 and 2 and it's cheaper to buy this than buy them separately. But do not buy this to play Doom 3. You will not enjoy it. This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here.
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