is a great game. Not necessarily for the gameplay aspects, but for the fact that my eyes and ears never went a moment without being completely entertained. DOOM 3 is extremely immersive with about as perfect a presentation as I've ever seen in a game. Visually, it has no peer at the moment. Even Far Cry's impressive vistas and wonderful environments can't stand up to the artistic and technical might of this sensory feast. Playing this on a 5.1 surround sound in the dark is an intense experience that, if possible, must be enjoyed.

DOOM 3 is such an odd entry in the series compared to how it later went much more towards the arcade action style, and I think between this and the notorious Doom comic that this series was going through a strange personality crisis where people didn't know whether to emphasise horror or the action.

This was a technological marvel at its time and I remember particularly being terrified at just how creepy certain segments of this game were - especially the first time you encountered an imp, and it's an odd experiment with trying to add just a bit more realism to something which was much more known for being much more cartoon like.

And way more emphasis is placed on the game being intensely claustrophobic, which is effective but it feels really odd considering that this is a Doom game - and there's all of the notorious memes about how dark everything is in this game (in terms of light) and the incredibly high spread short-ranged shotgun, and just how this felt way more like something like Half-Life or System Shock rather than a Doom game.

Regardless, I liked this game quite a bit - especially with the detail that went into crafting all of the hellish visuals which predominate throughout the whole thing, which I really liked but then this game felt a bit inconsistent in terms of story. The visuals are excellent, but then the plot involves some sort of government agency building a hell-portal - and there's these overly-long and dramatic cinematic cutscenes to top it all off, and lots of it confines you within the Mars facility and it just wasn't all that interesting.

Also, it's really funny at the beginning when you're told "Don't get excited and shoot anybody." so then I just punched people to death instead. The fact that people literally disintegrate into a flesh, gobby mess when you punch their corpses is so strange - but then the whole game sort of feels like that.

If it weren't for the Doom name attached to it, Doom 3 would have already been forgotten about along with every other mediocre first person shooter from the 2000s.

In some ways Doom 3 is a logical progression from iD Software's Doom 64 - Furthering the dark and horror aesthetic of that game and sprinkling it into the mechanics themselves. Perhaps if Doom 3 committed to being a true survival horror shooter, it could have worked, but the end result is "Kind of Doom, But Slow" instead.

After the allure of the horror aesthetic quickly dissipates within the first 30 minutes, you find yourself trudging through hours of same-looking dark sci-fi corridors, shooting awfully unsatisfying guns at bullet spongy enemies that result in even less satisfying death animations.

The game improves as more demon types show up, but even appreciating those comes with a few asterisks. Most enemies have a radical redesign, and very few of those land. The coolest monsters in Doom 3 are those original to this entry, though I still can't tell if it was their raw cool factor, or their novelty that charmed me.

Doom 3 weaves together all of its levels in a somewhat seamless-feeling progression throughout a UAC Mars base. This is part of the reason so much of the game's levels look and feel the same, and in some ways it reminds me of a poor man's Half-Life. Doom 3 also introduces cutscenes and voiced characters in an attempt to weave together a narrative, though honestly I fail to see the value in the attempt, as Doom 3 practically doesn't have a story anyway.

At times Doom 3's environments boast impressive detail and interactivity, but that too gets old quick. Scouring through emails to find codes, or fiddling with janky control panels to control various contraptions once again feels like extra, unnecessary steps to the Doom formula of Hit Button, Find Key.

Doom 3 experiments with a lot of things new for Doom, but never fully commits to its new ideas. Anything that I can almost appreciate comes with some sort of caveat. Sure, for the time on a technical level, Doom 3 was graphically impressive. But aesthetically it looks like a fake video game you might see someone playing in a movie or TV show.

Doom 3 is ugly, slow, and unsatisfying. It is the perfect companion to the 2005 Doom movie.

Eu sempre via muitas pessoas que consideravam esse jogo ruim, e outras que consideravam muito bom, o que dificultava pra saber se valia a pena ou não jogar. Agora eu finalmente zerei e... é bem decepcionante. Antes de tudo, saiba que não é um jogo PÉSSIMO, só que absurdamente repetitivo e entediante. A história é até que interessante, mas nada demais, a gameplay no começo é interessante mas logo enjoa, sem ter muitas coisas que mudem ela pra melhor ou algo do tipo, justo pelo contrário. Eu senti que o jogo ficou ainda pior na reta final, mais especificamente quando você chega no Inferno pela primeira vez. A gameplay é boa, mas não tanto quanto em outros jogos da franquia DOOM. De fato, esse jogo se difere bastante dos outros da franquia, e eu recomendaria que jogasse por ÚLTIMO. Minha curiosidade me fez jogá-lo antes de terminar todos os outros, e ele foi uma experiência interessante, porém decepcionante