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Friday, September 24, 2004 Doom3 I downloaded the Doom3 Demo last night and played through part of the first level. Through the entire thing I kept thinking how much it reminded me of Half-Life. Even down to the interaction with other characters. You click on them and hear their response to your unasked question. But it looks fan-fucking-tastic. I ramped the detail up to insane and it was chugging. Even two notches down looked pretty darn good. For example. Across a platform on the far side was a computer terminal. From where I was, the screen was a blur. As I walked up to it, it slowly resolved to clarity. I could actually read it. Not only that, I could interact with it, without the game loading a new screen! It was like I was there. The whole game is like that. Everything you see is fuzzy because it's far away. Get close enough and details resolve and interactive is plain. There was some sluggishness between "zones" I'm guessing. In the same way Half Life was one gigantic level as you walk thru doors, the game is probably preloading sections. Could be smoother, but it's probably that my machine is almost 2 years old now. I wander down through to my first assignment. Go find a scientist in the old comm station. The lights get dimmer. Flickery. You get to go outside for a moment and that's cool. Back inside it's dark and creepy, but I'm waiting for it to scare me. I'm expecting it, so I'm already disappointed. How is it going to spook me, when I know it's coming? Well, I won't blow it, but when all hell breaks loose, I get jumpy. Much more than I would have expected. People die. You have a radio and it first starts chirping out commands from your unit. Descriptions of what's going on. Then it slowly becomes a steady torrent of screams and hellishness. Then things come out of the woodwork. I got jumped from behind the first time. Had no idea what was going on, I heard something zombieish, but didn't understand until I got spun around and saw "it"... At least once, while running away blindly into the elevator, there was a rumble and the doors opened as the lights went out, I just started shooting wildly because I though they were on me again. Not to mention that you can't hold the flashlight and a weapon. So you can put down your gun and see what the trouble is if you like. You're just likley to see something about to eat your face off. Holy shit did it spooked me. I'm not even that far along either. I must own this game. posted by Evil Wayne | 4:04 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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