E3 Doom III Preview

Warped-Reality writes "GameSpy has a new Doom III Preview covering aspects of the storyline and how Doom III will be different from the rest of the FPS genre. It includes some pictures of the E3 Doom III demo booth. As the article says, "This is DOOM III, and it's going to scare you to hell."" Looking at these images, I can only say two things: Wow and Cool Toilets. Update: 05/22 19:55 GMT by M : There's also an interview with Carmack giving a few more details about the game.

Comments

Now the fun starts...

[popoutman]

All those that spend lots of $$ on the latest/greatest vid cards are now allowed to salivate at the prospect of getting visuals like these, that move as well..

Looks good....

[neo8750]

but what is it going to take to run it? will my amd k6-2 500 with my trusty voodoo3 run it? =)

if you ask me the game makers are working with video card makers to make games need better video cards to be played. but then myabe i'm just paranoid.

Re:Looks good....

[Morky]

I won't buy any game that won't run on my Vic-20. And don't expect me to pop for the "super-expander" cartridge. Why would anybody need 8k of RAM?

Re:Looks good....

[NotAnotherReboot]

Yes, and we all know my old 486 should still be good enough today for everything.

...I'm going to go load up quake 3 on it now and play with 100fps full screen antialiased.

Cool Toilets

[donnacha]

Wow and Cool toilets

Now, this is why I always wipe the seat before sitting down.

Re:Cool Toilets

[Macrobat]

Now, this is why I always wipe the seat before sitting down.

Ummm....those toilets aren't the kind you're ever supposed to sit down on. And if you do, I don't want to know about it.

Re:Cool Toilets

[donnacha]

Ummm....those toilets aren't the kind you're ever supposed to sit down on.

Ah, but pay attention, grasshopper:

Back there in the murk and gloom, you'll notice a cubicle, a cubicle whose porcelian throne lies prone and unconscious upon it's side, obviously the innocent viction of the HEMORRHOID BEAST'S explosive emergence from the lower depths of HELL!!!

Now, I'm no expert but it seems to me that taking the simple precaution of wiping the seat, while possibly not preventing the H.B.'s emergence into our dimension, certainly wouldn't have hurt.

So, now you know the difference between a urinal and your standard, seated john.

Just don't piss in the sinks, OK?

Re:Co-Op

[ObviousGuy]

Yep. I heard that you'll be able to sell your own organic fruits and vegetables to unsuspecting yuppie zombies on level 6.

Co-ops are great for fresh food, but are you going to be able to keep up with the demand for fresh brains?

I think that the most scary thing is....

[teamhasnoi]

the fact there is some creature that can injure these zombies in EXACTLY the same way every time! I don't know about you, but I have a really hard time killing my zombies the same way every time.

Re:originality

[Drakker]

The game is more of a remake of the original doom, and guess what? Thats the exact Doom story. Doom is the classic, and over time, people begin to think that the classics are unoriginal... Half-life was the one that ripped the doom and quake background story and tried to make a game with an actual story out of this... while in doom and quake, you had to read the readme.txt file to know the story. =)

Re:slacker

[Monkelectric]

My god my buddy and I did the *exact* same thing. I think doom prevented me from getting into a decent college :) your name isn't matt is it? :D

Lots of monsters...

[NetJunkie]

I'd really like to see this have a ton of monsters like the original Doom games did. That's a big reason I enjoyed Halo so much. You'd walk in to a big area and there would be 20 or 30 enemies to take down. Not many games do that these days....

That was the best part of Doom. Open a big door and find 30 guys in there. Your friends playing co-op would see you running back by them and ask "What is it?". Heh...then they'd get swarmed. Good times...good times....

Oh yeah, I also want an Aliens TC mod.

Re:originality

[bafu]

Man, couldn't they have thought up something a little more original? I mean, mysterious otherworldly monsters coming through portals into a large installation is pure Half-Life!

Tell it to Valve. They've been rereleasing that over and over again for years now. What's left?

What we're really wating for here at the Gamerz Dung3on is the release of Half-Life: Yellow and Black Stripes where you get to play a janitor who was trapped in the Black Mesa facility when an experiment goes terribly awry! Not only do you have to contend with messy extradimensional creatures that bring a whole new meaning to the term "Slippery when Wet", you're going to have to do some house-cleaning in their own slimy world... Black Mesa style!

I'm impressed with how long they've been able to squeeze some life out of that tired engine... much in the same way that I am impressed with how time Dragon Ball Z episodes can be much longer than real time (just how many episodes did it take for the last four minutes of Nemec's existence to pass ;-) )

Conspiracy?

[Glytch]

Question: Do id software members get kickbacks from the video card industry? :)

Men's bathroom

[jcsehak]

Note to women of Slashdot: This is why you should never use the men's bathroom.

And what are those things sticking out over the urinals? Even without the monster there, I'd be scared to take a piss. Flushers? Infared sensors? None like I've seen. I don't know about you guys, but I generally don't like anything that close to my dick unless it can make babies or tell me it needs more space.

Re:Men's bathroom

[7-Vodka]

they obviously shake it for you.

Re:Men's bathroom

[Wumpus]

And what are those things sticking out over the urinals?

Gravity generators. The game takes place on Mars, and since your peeing reflexes were honed through years of practice in 1G gravity, if you'll try using the urinals on Mars, you'll most likely overshoot, hit the wall, and make quite a mess. The gravity generators compensate for the difference, and keep everything nice and clean.

Except for the blood, of course.

Wow!

[sharkey]

I can't wait to see the Barney mod for this!

I like it.

[nice]

Urinals contoured for your rump. If that isn't an invitation for disaster...

Re:The original Doom/ Doom II were scary

[TellarHK]

*stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp*
RAAAAAGRH!
*whoosh whoosh*
*BOOM*

Now THOSE were the sounds of fear. Nothing has surpassed the original cyberdemon for me.

Except maybe my first panicked headcrab assault.

rendering engine could use improvement

[wrinkledshirt]

Sheesh, Carmack sure is slipping. Things are looking a little foggy here. And these monsters aren't looking very frightening. Okay, well, maybe if I was a girl...

Re:Co-Op

[Thing 1]

but are you going to be able to keep up with the demand for fresh brains?

"Send more cops."

...

"Send more paramedics."

Half Life vs Doom Plot

[Anonymous Coward]

Doom is Very Old. Half Life is not too old. The four paragraphs of plot from the original Doom games went someting like this:

"Once upon a time there were scientists on the moons of Mars. These scientists made a teleporter. Inanimate objects teleported fine. When they sent people through, Hell followed close behind.

And then the Marine killed a bunch of stuff, died, went to hell, left hell, Demons/Aliens (at some point it became hard to tell which) went to Earth.

And then the Marine killed a bunch of stuff.

The End. (except for the dead, creepy ass bunny)

So no more talk about D3 rippping off Half Life's plot. (Doom even had a creep corp, but as it never seemed to have done anything, it was hard to see why they were so creepy. But they did leave veritable arsenals in their labs, so theres something...)

Also, I hope the Creepy Dead Bunny is in the opening scene of D3. That would be Hella Cool. (and Cmndr Keen)

Hrm

[kraf]

What's the deal with the legacy movie ?
They show FEAR in big letters then they show some gummi bear looking monster.
Who are these people ?