I think you're dead on about Doom 3. It was insanely hyped up and when I finally tried it I just got the "been there done that" feeling...nothing new whatsoever. Sure, the graphics are nice, but so where HL2 which I also thought had a good story with good atmospehere and gameplay you easliy got involved with. Because of this, the linear style of the game was not hard to forgive.Mr.Mouse wrote: Doom 3 I started and then quicky removed from my hard-drive, I thought that was a load of bull. Gameplay from the Stone Age. In my opinion, they should have stopped at Doom 2. Id software just released a game that is not of this day in age. The only thing they are good at is building an engine. They totally lack skills in the gameplay area. But for me that's not enough.
Half Life 2 on the other hand was very good, though still linear. But the story and gameplay was excellent.
Speaking of engines, I'm looking forward to the Unreal 3 engine. Sure, it will hardly have much new in terms of gameplay...but what I've seen of the graphics so far it looks really sweet.
Then again, so does Elders Scrolls 4. I heard rumors about it using the Unreal 3 engine, but now I read somewhere else this is not so. Anyone know something more about this?
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