Death's advocate approaches ... (Doom 3)

[kandrathe]

I borrowed a friends copy to try-before-I-buy, which I installed and played single player for about 1.5 hours last night.

If you like a game that makes you wet yourself every 5 minutes, then this is your game. id is the master of mood, so the lights go out and you have to shoulder your weapon to use the flashlight, there are lots of twisty passages and hiding places where ghoulish bad guys pop up. Later they start ripping through the walls, and up through the floor. It was an hour of sheer terror. There are puzzles to solve, and things you must do to progress. Dead civilians and grunts have dropped their PDA's with reports and e-mails you can glean for security codes and where things might be. You find video discs with information on how to use or do certain things.

Visually, yeah, its definate eye candy. So far, the plot has not entirely engrossed me, and the normal FPS motion sickness is augmented by the typical id gore.

But, so far, I have not puked. I think this is the porn of graphically violent video games.