I’ve been playing Doom3 for the last few days and feel I can comment on it.

There has been a ton of bitching about the gameplay.  I will say that it is nothing incredibly revolutionary.  That is being said, the gameplay is good, it’s fun and has great interavtivity with the invirnment.  The story is the same as the old game (back then we didn’t have cut scenes and the PDA) but it does play well and brings you into the game.  It starts a little slow which kinda surpised me because I played Beta2 and it brought you stright into the action kinda like the first game and so that is what i was thinking would happen in the final release.

Gameplay aside.  Let’s talk graphics.  Graphics is what Doom3 is about.  It’s about taking a classic game that brought many people into gaming and making the experince 10X more realistic then what we remember it. I say that a Doom3 player should be at least 16 years of age or older, not because of the blood and gore, but because they will look at the game and not get a ton out of, but for us who grew up as Doom being the end all-be all of gaming this is heaven.  The graphics look absolutely wonderful.  No matter what kind of system you run (at least anything above the min specs) it will look and play good.  My system is nothing out of this world.  AMD 2100+, GF4 4200, 768mb DDR 400.  But I can play that game at 1024X768 with descent framerate and it look great.  I did start it up at 640X480 and was suprised how little things changed, for that low of a screen resolution it looked fabulous.  I love how everything in the game is so interactive.  Chairs and boxes move vary fluidly and the panels change instead of just changing colors link most games.

I’m about 1/2 way through the game and can’t wait to finish this one up!  I did go online and look up the cheat codes.  No, I didn’t cheat, I was just HOPING that id would use the classic codes from the first Doom. iddqd, idkfa, idspispopd, iddt.  Game on!