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Now all you people on the fence can see if it runs on your machine.
http://files.filefront.com/3635172;/pub2/Doom 3/Official Demos/
http://files.filefront.com/3635172;/pub2/Doom 3/Official Demos/
Doom III demo
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Dagless M.D.
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ouch 461mb
ToyMachine228
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Out of curiousity, what level of Doom III is in the demo? I already own the game, and have finished it, but I'm just wondering.
Late Stage Marxist
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The first three levels, whatever that means.
ToyMachine228
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trippingmartian said:
That means that it's pretty much the better part of the game if you ask me. Spreaking of that...Who's the chick in your avatar trippingmartian?
Late Stage Marxist
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Jessica Alba as Nancy in Sin City.ToyMachine228 said:
I'm pissed. The download supposedly finished but when internet explorers stupid download manager tried to copy the file to my desktop if froze on me. now its suck in the file download screen with 1 second to go and no file on my desktop! Fuck you internet explorer! Why the fuck doesn't microsoft's download manager save your progress on downloads?!?! How fucking stupid are they, really?
Funky Papa
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I can't understand the purpose of the demo. Do they want to lose potential buyers? 
Late Stage Marxist
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Download the torrent.
Duckhuntdog
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trippingmartian said:
If you played the first three levels you pretty much have seen all the game play Doom 3 offers. I have never felt a FPS become so tedious so rapidly.
Ha, I was thinking the exact same thing.Funky Papa said:I can't understand the purpose of the demo. Do they want to lose potential buyers?
I made it to level 10 out of 27 or so, which impresses me. My endurance for banality is better than I thought.
Your dislike of Doom 3 does little to explain why you like Quake II single player, though.
!!!!!!!!BenT said:
I should hope so. Its really immensely crappy. The combat has zero finesse, you fight nonstop in hallways so thin that you cant dodge, so all it is, is run straight while shooting, no dodging, no tactics, no cover, just run forward with mouse_1 held down. They fully support this gameplay by placing health powerups every 6 inches.
Fuck what a stupid game, I can't believe it has over 80% at gamerankings.
talking head
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i do not like this game.
okay , I admit that 2 years ago I came across a copy of the alpha of this , I only wanted to see the engine at work. it ran at around 8 FPS tops. The full game runs only about twice that which on one hand tells me I need to upgrade but on the other hand , not for this game. Schafers' impressions are pretty much dead on, while I don't hate the gameplay that much it is pretty repetative, see, games like serious sam and painkiller actually do a better job of recapturing the doom, doom 2 feeling if you want my humble opinion. Also they take a weaker system to run well.
Funky Papa
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Quake II has LIGHTS and the monsters don't appear exactly on the same places on every damn room, plus, combat was ectic and vicious. Doom 3 was a fucking disaster on that regard, you can guess where are the enemies just looking at the enviroment (heck, I KNEW where the imps were going to be TELEPORTED before they appeared)BenT said:Your dislike of Doom 3 does little to explain why you like Quake II single player, though.
After seeing the Quake 4 scans I am going to be very cautious with my hopes BTW. I was expeting something different, that doesn't look like Quake 2 by a mile.
Did you finished the game? It is fun for the first few hours, but it's a trainwreck after that.DCharlie said:
Listen to this man. He speaks teh truth.Schafer said:
buck naked
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I'm only an hour or so into the game (Alpha Labs), so maybe the repetition argument is lost on me, but I'm really failing to see what the problem with the game is.
I don't think the gameplay is shallow or repetitive. First person shooters are my favorite genre, and I've played most of them, and Doom 3 gets a lot of things right almost all FPS's get wrong. First, the controls are spot on. No mouse lag or oddities in the mechanics. Weapon change times, movement and the level design is all fantastic.
Even simple things like the item pick-ups, doors opening, in-game GUI's, and the way that your character interacts with other characters (the seemless lowering weapons/flashlight to talk), it's all polished and well designed. Nothing in the game has frustrated me. Not even dropping to the desktop to go visit a URL to get a code for a locker.
Maybe it was gimmicky, but the chaingun was worth it =)
As far as the actual gameplay goes, I don't think it's shallow at all. I feel like I'm fighting, not mindlessly shooting. If you're finding the game dull, maybe you should be playing it on a higher difficulty, rather than criticising it? It's often said to fully appreciate Halo, you should play it on Legendary - so the strengths of the games design and AI come through.
Halo is doing a lot of things different to Doom (in the type of combat, AI and environments), but my experience in Doom 3 has been anything but dull.
It seems like Doom 3 is often criticised for failing to be something it never something it never promised to be.
I don't think the gameplay is shallow or repetitive. First person shooters are my favorite genre, and I've played most of them, and Doom 3 gets a lot of things right almost all FPS's get wrong. First, the controls are spot on. No mouse lag or oddities in the mechanics. Weapon change times, movement and the level design is all fantastic.
Even simple things like the item pick-ups, doors opening, in-game GUI's, and the way that your character interacts with other characters (the seemless lowering weapons/flashlight to talk), it's all polished and well designed. Nothing in the game has frustrated me. Not even dropping to the desktop to go visit a URL to get a code for a locker.
Maybe it was gimmicky, but the chaingun was worth it =)
As far as the actual gameplay goes, I don't think it's shallow at all. I feel like I'm fighting, not mindlessly shooting. If you're finding the game dull, maybe you should be playing it on a higher difficulty, rather than criticising it? It's often said to fully appreciate Halo, you should play it on Legendary - so the strengths of the games design and AI come through.
Halo is doing a lot of things different to Doom (in the type of combat, AI and environments), but my experience in Doom 3 has been anything but dull.
It seems like Doom 3 is often criticised for failing to be something it never something it never promised to be.
Funky Papa
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More lost than a son of a bitch on the Fathers' Day.buck naked said:
Joking aside I used to think the same until every fucking enemy came after me on the same fashion and realiced that I was an unstopable, overpowered killing machine no matter what was the difficulty level. It REALLY destroys the otherwhise incredible inmersion.
buck naked
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Funky Papa said:
Haha =)
I just started playing today. I held off playing sooner, deciding to wait for my new speakers (Logitech Z-680's) and small upgrade (a second stick of 512mb CAS 2 RAM) instead.
Now the game is running at 40-60fps on high quality at 1024x768 with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio - it's a visceral treat =)
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Templar, I will =)
Templar Wizard
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the reason why you think there is no repetition is because you are at the start of the game. come back to us when you have played the whole thing. 
ArcadeStickMonk
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LakeEarth said:
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Duckhuntdog said:
No, that's not true at all.
Honestly, the game was a bit tedious early on when all they wanted to throw at you was imps, but later on, the combat heats up quite a bit as they introduce more demons and you have to fight more efficiently as a result. I just wish the hell segments had been spread out a bit more, as that was easily the coolest level in the entire game...
I don't understand the hate myself. The game has some design flaws, that's for sure, but I thought it was pretty enjoyable most of the time.
Of course, when it comes to the FPS genre, everyone has a different opinion on what is good. The fact that there are people that believe Halo to flat out "suck" says a lot...