Doom III Trailer Debuts At E3

trub writes "The new Doom III trailer is out now on Gamespot.com (registration required). It's worth it.. don't mean to sound like a fanboy, but 'words can't describe...'" There are also mirrors that don't need registration via PlanetQuake3.net, and a BitTorrent link courtesy Gametab News for this 31mb DivX file. The game has also been officially confirmed for Xbox at E3, and you can check out more E3 news at Slashdot Games.

Comments

Re:register? pff...

[Negatyfus]

Registration *is* free, although it needs to install some software for the download to work. It's coming in with good speed, though. I thought, what the hell... I'm the sysadmin; what do I care if this machine gets 0wned, spammed or used in a DDOS attack? Like I have a resposnibility to the company, or something hahaha!

Re:Why bother... Get it for PC, higher res + mods.

[gol64738]

wow, i wonder how much ATI had to pay for that....

Re:Sweet Trailer! / Dumb Shooter?

[DNS-and-BIND]

Because twits with no real life play computer games, and ever since the (recent) advent of fancy graphics, computer games have ceased to run well on all computers. To optimize this requires a large investment in computer hardware, which ages quickly and must be replaced frequently. Choosing hardware has spawned an entire industry of review sites and driver discussions. None of which, of course, has anything to do with the game itself, the only purpose is geeking out.

Needless optimization to a ridiculous extent has long been a character trait of the obsessive in general, and the no-life geek specifically. Sometimes this is good, as when operating systems become optimized. But since the decline of programming as the primary use of computers, people who don't know the first thing about programming are the new, primary users. These folks run games for no other reason than to utilize their computing power.

The whole idea behind Doom 3 isn't to have a great game, it's to provide an exciting new platform that will cause these nerds to buy new, exciting hardware and spend months tinkering with their Windows systems (no programming will be done, naturally!) in order to optimize this new challenge. The actual gameplay is a tertiary concern at best.