The game's nicely balanced - I died enough that I felt challenged, but not so often that I got frustrated. Same basic enemies - zombies, demons that throw fire, cyborg demons, etc. Same basic weapons, from the chainsaw to the BFG-9000. The story is basically told as you go through e-mails and audio recordings (sort of like Bioshock), the cut-scenes are rare and short, and you jump into the action less than 5 minutes after the game starts - even if you wander around for a little bit.įor fans of the original Doom, I'm happy to say that there's a lot of gameplay here that hearkens back to the original. I'm a simple man when it comes to first person shooter games - in large part because I cut my video gaming teeth on the originals. A good FPS, in my opinion, places a premium on action, tactics and reflexes, and keeps story elements and cut scenes to a minimum.

The remastered BFG edition adds some nice motion blur effects and the ability to play the game up to 1080p resolution. The graphics might be dated, but if screenshots from the original version are any indication, it was already well ahead of its time, so it holds up pretty well. So I was pretty excited to play the game. I missed Doom 3 when it first came around and never went back to catch up. Nostalgia satisfied, I turned to the main event.

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