Doom 3
By Jacob Malewitz
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What the Doom games did was stir up plenty of controversy in
the gaming world. They’re not quite the blood fest people make them out to be,
but the Doom franchise set a mold for FPS games from over a decade ago to
today, where Halo and other games rise from the concept of one against many.
Doom 3? What’s that? Can’t be good: a sequel. Must be
clichéd: a first person shooter. Can’t have a good story: we’re talking about
hell.
This article provides the goods one not the best game of the
Doom franchise, and not quite an original take on gameplay and story, but a
major improvement in graphics.
Gameplay:
You start out with a basic gun and a flashlight, which can
be used together. It’s odd, somewhat like a horror movie, where you can’t quite
see everything that’s happening—and that adds to the tension, the nerve
wracking horror, that the first game has. Enter new weapons, enter thousands of
monsters, and enter an adventure in hell. My only problem is the whole, Keep It
Simple, Gamer mindset id has. I recently read a review which mentioned id, the
developer, trying to go old school in a sense, bringing back the games of old.
I would have liked, if there is going to be a remake, for the story to be the
same, but for the puzzles, cut scenes, and dialogue to be much better.
Story:
Hell hasn’t frozen over, and the hell world of Doom is red
hot. We are back to square one Doom, in a sense, but on the other
hand, Doom 3 is more than a simple rehash of what came before. There are
plenty of new elements, beyond gameplay and graphics, that add to the sense of
dread. No Name, as I like to call the space marine in the Doom series, is sent
to Mars, where things are truly messed up. A scientist goes missing; no name is
sent to find him. Then all hell brings out, literally. You hear a dark laugh
and then that tiny part about fire and lightning erupting across Mars. It can only
get worse. This is Doom 1 on steroids: same setting and character, with some
story additions. But, the graphics remake the classic better than the story
ever could.
Graphics:
Graphics are the main evolution of Doom. Gameplay is, oddly
enough, better in Doom 2: Hell On Earth. But these are the best graphics of the
entire Doom franchise, which, in the gaming world, is only a few games and
expansions. Yet this is probably the best reason to buy the game: you get Doom
on steroids.
Replayablity:
The old school approach works in a sense, but it can get
boring playing Doom. Sure, you can get it on consoles and on PC, making it fun
for any gamer, but nothing revolutionary is back. I want to do more than shoot
a bunch of monsters. That is, what you could say, the “Halo Effect” where many
of us want more than just shooting monsters, but some stunning visuals and a
bit of mystery. Still, Doom scares me more than just about any game, maybe even
more than Resident Evil. It’s a different kind of fear, the unknown kind.
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