So, I did actually buy Doom 3 recently and have spent a while playing it. I am willing to admit I short changed their “story” a wee bit… But not much. Sure, there is a plot, and it has some nice ideas to it. But that’s mostly because it’s the plot to Half Life… Guy shows up at research station… is looking around… gets first “easy” assignment… all “hell” breaks loose… dead co-workers wandering around… often crossing paths with some “man in black” character… So far, I feel it’s just re-hashing Half Life with a bit of a Doom flair. I will admit, the Doom flair of it is really frickin creepy. This is not a game for kids, that’s for sure… The satanic ritual rooms are disgusting, in such a cool way. The game is also quite dark. Normally, when using that term with satanic ritual rooms one would assume “metaphorically” dark… but that is not really the case. I guess a factory on mars that produces roughly limitless energy doesn’t like having lights that work. The dark is just overdone to be blunt… sure there is using shadows to create suspense, but turning out all the lights and having a mob of zombies attack isn’t suspenseful, it’s just annoying. Good thing someone found a roll of Duct Tape! Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten all that far into it as I get a headache after about half an hour of playing. I’m still holding out for Half Life 2 though!

Speaking of which, IGN recently posted a couple vids of the intro to the game. From just those clips of the intro, I say again that Half Life is going to be head and shoulders over Doom 3. I mean, they actually have lights that work! how cool is that? In my opinion, the train station intro makes me feel far more creeped out than any gathering of shadows Doom 3 could put out… But, we’ll all be able to make our own comparisons eventually.