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I agree with the football soulcube thing. Do it! Each of the goals could be an open mouth of some demon and you toss the soul cube in there to score. Of course this means new maps need to be made...

Sounds great onmy system. I don't recall a metal sound when I hit the growth in the levels.

Seen a few. Last I remember was a caco toasting a chaingun zombie to death. Which was nice cause at the time I had 28 health and those damn chaingunners pick the crap out of your health from pretty far away.

Yea, Doom 3 really belongs in Toys'r'Us, lol. I know adults shop there for toys sometimes, but really Doom 3 belongs in BestBuy, WalMart, Target, and them videogame stores. Some not so bright parents would instantly assume Doom 3 is ok for their kids since it's sold in Toy'r'Us.

Sure you want to go with via for you a64 system? The 3 nvidia (nforce 3) 939 socket versions out all pretty much kicked the asses of the via solutions. I never would have bought MSI before but clearly they have one of the better 939 boards out right now.

Yea, get your own computer and password the bios and xp to keep your Dad off it. If he doesn't like Doom 3 something is wrong with him, hell he probably played the first Doom but he has forgotten how to enjoy games. He is gone, you can't save him, he is one of them now (non-gamers).

If someone does Doom 4 it should have dismemberment. There, I said it, I like blowing body parts off in games.

Omg! Get me a lock of John's hair. Then we can clone him and have an army of him programming games after the original Carmack has shot himself into space in a giant soup can! Hehe, actually I hope his space adventures bear fruit.

Who wants to bet he replaces his pc first and is playing Doom 3 in a few days while starved (no food), wearing same clothes for a week (no washer), and unbathed (maybe water heater got taken out too!)?

Nah, I think we should bash the over-eager politcally correct guy some more! I mean who isn't sick of political correctness overkill by now? If there ever was a movement that impaired humans ability to discuss and work out cultural differences, it's political correctness.

Yea, the head through the door thingy is the only missing monster I can think of.

Nah, actually PC Gamer is my favorite PC mag. I just wish they'd adopt EGM style reviews for important games. I think Far Cry, Doom 3, HL2, STALKER, and a few others qualify as IMPORTANT.

I'm ace at math n stuff so I figured if I buy 3 copies of Doom 1 and install each copy I'd end up with Doom 3. Damn, it didn't work and to think my math teacher said I'd be able to apply this math stuff to real life situations. What a load of rubbish she fed me!

That's the point though. These magazines want you to believe that their scores ARE relevant. And these scores would be if they were LESS SUBJECTIVE. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a review that gets multiple input (objective) and a score that reflects this. EGM does this but for consoles....my xbox has been collecting dust for a year now so I don't read EGM lately. True, in the end it doesn't matter for well informed gamers. But for the casual gamer looking to pick up a great fps, that person is going to see Far Cry 95%, Doom 3 94% and probably buy Far Cry based on the scores (placing trust in the scores that Far Cry is the better game if only by 1%). Personally I wouldn't mind an EGM style review were 4 reviewers have a go at the game and the resulting scores are averaged. This is somewhat objective compared to having one person determine the score. That is all. If they are going to rate games, they should atleast make the scores actually relevant.

Problem with the Far Cry review is the 95%. It doesn't live up to that score. I'm not saying Far Cry is a bad game. It was a fun game but far too many faults to get that high. Replay value is very low due to the poor multiplayer. It's really not that great to play the single player through more than once. Even on ramped up difficulty the gameplay doesn't improve because the developer simply chose to increase hitpoints for enemies for higher difficulty. Damn it sure would have been nice if they worked the AI over a little and actually had the enemies behave smarter when on highest difficulty. Instead they do something that requires no extra programming. Anyone could increase the enemy damage in the game scripts. Call of Cuty, a game I've had much longer is still racking up way more play time than my copy of Far Cry. The multiplayer in COD is very polished compared to FC. A game like COD should get a score around 95%. That makes sense to me. In that very same magazine where Far Cry gets a 95%, near the back there is a column where another contributor to the magazine points out what seems to be a disagreement with the review on Far Cry. Then here lies the problem in my opinion (If these scores do matter, I think they do as some people do compare scores between games for purchases), it's obvious that the entire staff didn't necessarily agree with the review. They then need to get way more input on major game reviews. Instead of one reviewer determining the final score, maybe they should all chip in on the final score average (obviously one reviewer can write the review still). I seriously think if all the review staff chipped in on the Far Cry review, it would have gotten closer to a 90% score. Still a great game but it does have some problems. And Doom 3 based on the faults compared to Far Cry's would score around what Far Cry originally got, a 95-97%. Think about it. Some people actually take these scores seriously (and some of these gaming magazines are vocal about the accuracy/fairness of their scoring systems) and buy games based of these reviews. One reviewer's opinion on MAJOR game releases is TOO subjective. Some jokes that the reviewer didn't find funny in a review that otherwise pointed out NO faults gets Doom 3 a 6% deduction? Far Cry with bugs and weak multiplayer (I think that was the words they used) gets a 95%? I really hope they change they way they review games before HL2 is released. Imagine if they give the HL2 review to someone who happens to hate HP Lovecraft?: "So basically I can find no faults with the game, it's awesome fun, except I find some of the plot elements way to cheesy and they smack of HP Lovecraft (god I hate cheesy science fiction). Score: 93%" Would you be happy with that subjectivity? Not much different that the reviewer who was put off by a few jokes in Doom 3. How justified would Far Cry's score be then?

I highly doubt it since Far Cry is a rushed game. Doom 3 has been in the works for 4 years. With ID's track record, I'd bet money that Doom 3 is more polished and a better game experience. Far Cry's score of 95% was completely wrong. With all it's problems the highest I could see giving it is a 90%. If it had no bugs,better plot,AI, and better ending, then a 95% would have been acceptable.

In the context of other games, 90% is shit. PC gamer gave Far Cry a 95% and Doom 3 a 94%. How the fuck does Far Cry in it's buggy state score higher than Doom 3? The game is fun for the first few levels but turns to crap at the end. The end is so crappy it's pretty much not worth finishing. The Doom 3 review found far less faults with it than the Far Cry review they did. Yet they rate FC higher? Far Cry had some huge bugs and Doom 3 had a few jokes that the reviewer didn't like. Ok, which is worse? Bugs or a joke the some moronic reviewer didn't like? Of course bugs are worse and that should have been reflected in the score. PC gamer has some total fucktards working for them.

The easiest way to see the difference between 512 and 1 gig is to fire up Far Cry Demo or game with only 512mb of ram. You'll get massive swapping. Go to 1 gig and NO pauses. Just smooth all the time. I'm thinking it will be the same for Doom 3.

Moronic troll apparently.

http://us.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/contact/ Creative would love to hear from you.

Totally agree. I'm certainly buying a mobo with decent on board sound on my next overhaul. The creative card I bought 2 years ago is going in the trash when I upgrade. They'll never see another penny from me.

Don't buy any creative products. Screw these pricks. I'm not buying a creative sound card for any future Doom 3 engined game. Even if they stripped 5.1 support for non-creative users. These people remind me of land-grabbers. Neighbors that act all nice, ask if they can put a swing set on an old lady's property, quitely make a claim on the property, and then take the old lady to court and "steal" her property. All perfectly legal, but totally on the slimy bottom of the moral totem-pole. Too many people like this in this world.

Creative is a jackass company. 5.1 surround support will probably be stripped from future ID games UNLESS you buy a creative sound card. These jackasses patent software algorithyms, which simply put is like patenting MATH. It's bs but our system allows this bs. The ultra shadow tech is an algorythm simular to creative's. But honestly it's just math. But in order to avoid "trouble" JC has allowed creative to "dumb" down future Doom 3 engine based games to make creative cards the only way to get decent 5.1. I should take out a patent on "addition". Any company/person that wants to add some numbers together (hey, I think accountants owe me money!) and charge for it has to go through me first.

Well, you'll have to buy x-box Doom 3 yourself. Unless you want to pay me 100 dollars for a pc version. My army and I are in every major city ready to camp out all retailers carrying Doom3. We horde all copies then we resell em all on Ebay! You better hope the small store you go to gets more than 20 copies (for EB games) or 100 for places like Best Buy. I have that many people allocated for every place in that manner. .......this messgae brought to you by E-bay. Or maybe you will run into a game store with your sweaty little hands to find all Doom 3 sold out. Then across the parking lot you see, omg, yes it's Jerry Fawell and his right wing religous nut posse with all the Doom 3 copies about to be burned in a fire! What do you do? Or maybe Liberman with his anti-anything-videogames possee is across the parking lot tossing all the Doom 3 copies into a wood chipper! Omg, feel the rage. Or maybe Rosie O'Donnel and her fat obnoxious bitch possee are EATING all the copies of Doom 3 because Doom 3 has guns in it. Rosie hates gunz. Omg, slap that fat, loud, annoying, lousy singing cunt! It's true, the whole world is out to stop you from getting your hands on Doom 3 for the pc. There are people who think you shouldn't be allowed to play this game. There are people who want it for themselves. There are jerks who just want it to horde and sell on E-bay to poor saps in Europe who can't get it yet. You'll have no problem getting Doom 3 xbox though, since no one wants it.

I'm gonna say it might same fat zombie too with face blown off. Because we all know how cool it would be if enemies took that detailed damage!