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[currahee]

Doom III's engine is cool I guess. The lighting and bump-mapping are used very heavily to create a realistic effect.
However when it comes to polys per model, its about evenly matched with Half Life 2's Source Engine

[Herbert]

Doom 3 would be more enjoyable to me if I didn't need to set all the graphics settings to "LOW" to get a decent frame rate.

Note to self: Upgrade your ram

The game's pretty spooky. Always has your adrenaline pumping. The engine's lighting does a good job at creating the atmosphere needed for a nice horror game. I'd love to see someone do a total conversion of System Shock 2 using the Doom 3 engine!!

I'd also like to note how developers are letting really stupid/easy-to-fix bugs get through to the final product. I had to edit one of the config files to get a performance boost... Something the developers could have done before to save the thousands of people from doing it. Deus Ex 2 had something similar if I recall... Hitman: Contracts had a bug with Post-Filter and the sniper rifles they needed to patch... It's like devs are relying too heavily on patches nowadays

[wizzywig]

i feel that the GFX is great but i still think it lacks in animation detail as the big fat guy come on as if he could move that slow and sluggish. but other then that its great

[helix]

I need to play this game one of these days...

[cryptonx]

well Doom3s graphics are great of course , but you won't see the BEST out of it until someone licenses the engine and use it on a REAL story based game , insted of just shooting stupid zombies and stupid spawning deamons ...............

[marijnnn]

i agree, but i'm sure we'll see some real great games based on the d3 engine. D3 the game itself is a little to dark for my opinion.

[cryptonx]

the fisrst of these is Quake IV .... ( quake 4 for the dummies ) .. which supposed to be coming out next year

[gogaoep]

There is also Half-Life 2 which is 4x better doom 3 in my opinion cause the facial animation are much better. Overall graphics are better and the environment is interactable (meaning you can pick up pretty much everythin and throw it). AND THE BEST PART ITS 1/2 THE SYSTEM REQUIRENMENTS THAN DOOM 3. i tried both and doom is just crappy

[marijnnn]

hm, i guess you couldn't play doom at hires? hehe.
to repeat what has been said: the d3 engine is great, but we'll have to wait for other games to come out before we'll see it's full capacity. doom3 was too dark, but the engine is great.

[baosen]

Half-life 2's engine is MUCH better physical, but i like the 3d engine.

[minnieadkins]

Doom 3 grafix engine is great. But in order to cause everyone to go out and buy the best grafix card in order to run it...it's not that great for the $$. I think ID did this for a reason though because there are a lot of tweaks that you can do to increase your FPS in the game bye 10-15 easily. I was running the game at about 10-15 fps on my Geforce 4 ti 4800 se and then i read a few tweaks about using my system ram to cache the data. After i adjusted it a bit i got up to around 35 fps (but the quality of the grafix isn't GREAT) I definately suggest a good card in order to get the full experience that the engine offers. But overall, 30 fps runs smoother than a lot of games with higher fps, and no matter the resolution/settings it still looks great.