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 Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. The review was disapointing and chock full of opinions. Adding your opinion to a review is the way it probably should be, but after I read the review on FS I relised that it was a review of someone pissed off at the *surprise* of the gameplay expieriance.
I think the surprise effect is great and very nostalgic.
Maybe fighting more monsters at once and more lighting through the levels would've helped. otherwise it's definitly doom. How many of us actually played through the first two dooms, don't lie. We all used the god mode trick and the jump to the last level trick. I think it took me months to finaly have played all the levels in doom2 when it came out, I just skipped around. And I know everyone else did to. This game is Doom it's just we all got so cought up in it that we wanted to play it through and, like having to much cake for desert, it's making us sick. Hence score of 85. I think 90 or higher just because of the little details that are in the game that aren't in any other. In all, a descent FS review but with too much anger and opinion at the surprise monsters.
|Athlon64 |BFG 6800GT |Saitek Gamer Keyboard |NEC -FP2141SB- I think the review was spot on.
When I first got Doom3, and spent about an hour and a half playing it, I couldn't say enough good things about it. Now, I just can't wait to beat it. The monsters being triggered when you pick up armor or teleporting behind you is getting very old. It worked at first, but come on, something new already?
Playing Doom3 just makes me want to play Half Life 2 that much more. I'm fairly confident that it will be a better game.
Though the two are very different: Doom3 is all hallways, dark, scary, you're on your own. HL will be in the great outdoors, most likely scary, and you'll have NPC to do combat along side(something that would have been wicked rad in D3) I'm counting on the story in HL2 to wipe the floor with D3s also. Sometimes when I'm playing D3, it almost seems like a bad remake of the original Half Life.
You can always write your own review, if you haven't done so already. Personally, I agree with some of the things he said and I see his point. I also tend to forget that I actually read the review, except for some reason, seem to remember two things, the annoyance of triggered events and save often. Of course, I also remember the score. Once I beat the game, I might write my own review, so I'll just put my comments there.
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Well there are many perspective in a review, he took the gameplay's repetitiveness as the main focus. It was a bit repetitive, and he really used it against Doom 3's score. Some reviewers out there looked at it differently, they see many of the good points in Doom 3 easily covered the repetitiveness of Doom 3, and accepted that fact that all previous Dooms had simular gameplay, and forgave ID's choice to keep the tradition.
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I played many FPS games and I can't remember once enjoying having NPC's fighting beside me, ever. Not in Call of Duty, not in Unreal 2, not any game that i remotely remember, because they either, never die, never kills anything useful, gets in your way, or always asks you to go first. But in Doom 3, it is maybe the first time I enjoyed it. It's not technically an NPC(it is that turret spider robot) that you have the choice to follow. While I was fighting beside it, i really felt scared that if it dies, I'd be in a world of shit, therefore while it tries to protect me, I had to protect it. Following it rushing thru dark rooms/corridors with it's head light was the one of the hightlights in Doom 3.
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You didn't enjoy rushing up that hill during the russian campaign with all those soldiers in COD?! And the first time you played the Normandy beach level in MOH?! Not even Barney in HL?! Yer crazy and banned from this site for that.
So what if they don't actually kill anything, it's fun. It help you feel not so sad and alone.
Following that walking gun thing in D3 was pretty cool. Now, imagine if there were levels where you had a couple marines, some with flashlights, some with guns, fighting along side of you? I think that would have been totally **bleep**in.
Dude I think your mental.
Not everyone's experience is ruined by using cheats, but I would expect a review to be based on non-cheating experience only. I for one can cheat like crazy and still be able to fully enjoy the game and become fully immersed (and be scared shitless) without cheats aswell. I find that you can be just as scared even with cheat experience, you just have to want to be. A truely immersive experience relies on both the game's ability to deliver, and the player's willingness to let the game immerse. I do agree that playing a game for hours on end dulls the experience....a paid game reviewer should know this. However, we should never automatically assume that the things that taint our gaming experience will taint other's aswell.
Actually most screens were taken without cheat codes if you simply look at my health bar. I only went back to the mid part of the game when I realized I hadn't grabbed enough screens there and didn't feel like fighting all the way through again. 
What, FiringSquad has a bias against id software? The only thing I might say about the review is that maybe WarSpite's expectations were a bit too high, but all in all I think it's a fair review.
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I would say he is currently the only game reviewer. Pongky covers conventions, Brandon does hardware, Chris does hardware, and Jacob does games. Edit: Seeing how low on manpower you guys are, do you need an intern? Message Edited by Corran on 08-09-2004 12:15 AM Why people care so greatly about what some website game reviewer (no offense
 ) thinks of a game is beyond me. True, there are certain 'standards' that we expect of a game reviewer, but some people seem to rely on reviews so much that they treat them as though they were political descisions made by their country's president
I'm pretty sure this evilash guy has a hard time with the english language, somehow he missed the part that said the cheats were going to be enabled for a custom timedemo for benchmarks and screenshots not for normal gameplay. Furthermore, biased againt Id....? I can tell you weren't around these boards when Doom3 went GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD.
The moral of the story is don't post it if you can't logically back it up. 
You didn't make points. You didn't comment on the review. You made some unspecific comments on my writing and later when confronted with the fact that your post had no substance, you completely misinterpreted my original statement that "id isn't known for its game design" as some sort of ridiculous sign of my "bias" against id. I was the frontline of defence on the FS forums and email when it came to explaining our decision to grade Q3A higher than UT. Do you understand that? When half the internet descended here to flame us for scoring Q3A higher, I was defending Q3A, and thus id. That's why you're a troll. I can take people disagreeing with me, I've been doing so in email for a few days now, but I'm not going to have some inept troll walk into these forums under higher pretenses.
I never admitted any bias in the review. That's just EvilAsh trolling.
I said "Now, keep in mind that I've always admitted that id has never been a master of game design, so I never expected another Deus Ex or Half-Life. While I disagree that their games are nothing but tech demos, I do expect a great action sequence. Wolfenstein 3D had it, Doom I and II had it, and the Quake games sorta had it - but they made up for that with multiplayer. Doom III?"
Now, to most people, this simply means "Hey, he didn't have ridiculously high expectations".
EvilAsh turns it around and tries to make it seem like I'm admitting some sort of bias against id Software.
a). I'm a professional. Professionals don't care who makes a game. We might comment on it and similarities of style and/or expectations, but it's the game that matters.
b). Even if I DID have a bias, it would be for id if anything. When we reviewed Q3A and scored it higher than UT, I spent most of my time explaining the decision. I've had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead on several occasions. I have a great relationship with Activision. Despite all this, I gave Doom III a lower than average score. However, I clearly explained that the "surprise! attack!" game mechanic was the only one present in Doom III and quickly got tedious, no matter how amazing the pacing of the game and the tension of the atmosphere.
So when someone comes in here and presumes to throw nonsensical allegations around about my article - each one proven wrong, one after the other, by various forum members - forgive me if I'm disappointed that you actually believed him.
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