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Having the opportunity to get my hands on a Beta Release of Doom 3 all I can say is oh my god. This is what we have all been waiting for. The levels are beautiful. The monsters can scare the pee right out of you. With Doom 3 Im always on the edge of my chair. This game provides solid gameplay typical to the FPS genre and i cannot express enough how beautiful it is. Ive heard comments about DX9 Games like HL2 and Doom 3 Not fully working with Nvidia based cards, but if you have a Nvidia card just get the new 50 series beta drivers and you shouldnt have to much of a problem. I play this game on a Athlon XP 2700 1 GIG 333mhz Crucial Ram, and a Geforce 3 TI 500. My game settings are 1280x768x32 with High Detail, High Draw Rate and Medium Effects and i average 35-45 FPS in game, yes i know its not 60 or 70 but its smooth and very very playable, its not like trying ot run Unreal 2 on a 1.2 duron with a 32 meg card.. choke choke choke.. Not this game.. anyways its sweet.. get it.. you wont be disappointed.

I know everyone is saying "Woah! This game will be the best in the world!" Well, think again. Sure, I know that the graphics are absolutely spectactular, but come to think of it, have you ever seen the 24 minute trailer for Half Life 2? That game has AI, tactics, graphics, physics and can run on a low-end card using a special technique they used in the source engine. The graphics are amazing on it.

Doom has always featured mindless action where you have big guns to kill big monsters in big levels, that takes a big amount of time to finish. I thought the first Doom was groundbreaking. It really was. But Doom 3 is just a graphical remake of the first few.

Lets also not forget to mention the fact that only FOUR PLAYERS can participate in a deathmatch! Replay value counts on multiplayer game modes. Once you beat single player, its done. Multiplayer opens new doorways for gameplay, but 4 players is just horrible. Kind of like having 15 players in a Battlefield 1942 session. Just not possible. I'd say, spend more money on a game that doesnt suck the living life out of your computer. Half Life 2 comes out in September, while Doom 3 comes out in 2004 sometime along the road. Its better, and you dont need to get a million dollar card to use the game! TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!

Doom 3 is going to be one of those games that will scare the pants off of you. Walking into a room with no lights, and you only have a flashlight, ooo scary! The 4 players only online will be sucky, but it will only take a week or two before some modding group changes that and will let people play with more players online. Yes, Doom 3 is going to require good graphics cards and all the top of the line hardware. But you can still play it without those items. A person just has to set all the settings on low, or off and Doom3 will probably run fine. DOOM # ROCKS.