Has anyone else but me seen the Doom 3 Alpha release? Anyone with good (and I mean good) system specs and broadband might want to check it out (no, it's not warez - you don't get the full game. Think of it as a buggy early demo). Moving on...
The game itself isn't optimised and a lot of it is missing - for instance it only contains the introduction and three levels featured at this years E3. But it still gives a taste of whats to come, and it's got me hooked!
The weapons feel good, you're a marine. The weapons reflect that feeling. The sound is incredible (though choppy on my system). Turning off the lights and putting the sound up is garunteed to instil fear if you're playing it for the first time!
Graphics? Heh, wow. I got between 0 and 50fps but around 24fps was the average. But I've got a slow CPU for the game (1.4GHz) with some of the graphics on above low and so on. The lighting rocks. Merging all objects so they're affected by the same lighting was a really good idea, and the world looks and acts as one. The player looks to be in the level as opposed to a floating camera wandering around it with a gun. Everything is pretty dark and broody, lots of techy stuff and steel everywhere (this is on the Phobos based maps of course). Monsters and the player are very high in detail, zombies eyes glow with an evil menace that only just stands out enough in the darkness to make you run in fear without giving away the entire zombie. Everything moves convincingly (though the death animations need work - but this is an alpha). The cyber-dog thingy (not sure of its real name) is huge, fast and evil.
I can't really go on describing it, all I'm saying is it's well worth a look for people who like a game that feels the part. Definitely one of my list next year when it comes out. More frightening than any PC game I've played before anyways...
Oh, I should point out once more that this is based on the alpha version. Not optimised for nv cards and certainly incomplete (only 3 available weapons for instance).
