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:No more putting it off...

[Squarewav]

but why would you want to, unless your video card is slow, playing doom3 on a xbox with their handhurt(c) controllers would be a pain in the , well hands

Ooooh

[methangel]

Reminds me of the 1994 Doom 1 release date. I had to upgrade to 4 megs of RAM! That was a trip.

Hope my 768 megs of RAM is enough.

Damn.

[nounderscores]

With that engine, you could make a mod which would be indistinguishable from reality.

Just add an evercrack style backend and humanity will self-extinct due to lack of interest in sex.

Re:Damn.

[Squarewav]

ohh so its the doom3 engine that the robots will use to create the matrix

Half-Life 2 teaser available too!

[fatwreckfan]

Get the Half-Life 2 teaser here as well! It's not as good as the Doom III vid, but it still looks wicked. Half-Life was probably the best FPS I've every played, and a lot of my friends agree, so my fingers are crossed for HL2 to rock just as much.

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

[prockcore]

you can pick up a used xbox for about 150 even new one for 200, last I heard the pc version will require a rather expensive video card,

According to Carmack, the Radeon 8500 should run Doom3 "perfectly". And that can be found for less than $100 these days.. even less by the time it's released.

What Doom III is all about

[Fuzuli]

I really don't care much about the gameplay of Doom III. Why ? Because Carmack's greatest contribution to gaming is not the games he creates for the last few years, his real contribution is the technology he gives to many talented others for implementing their ideas in a more stunning way.
What if gameplay of Doom III sucks ? What if it does not make it to the hype ? Nothing..No problem at all: as we've both seen before someone with a good idea will licence the technology and will give us a new game that'll rock our world. And considering Carmack's huge affords to make his technology easy to modify, we'll probably see much cooler mods too. Half life, was built on quake 2 engine, quake 3 engine was the base for medal of honor, and the list goes on. Carmack is not only coding a game, he's creating the technical foundation for next generation of games, and even just for that he deserves respect and all his Ferraris. Still i can guess how many will be bitching about "how Doom III sucks" when the game is out. Just try to see how much the guy alone has done for gaming. And for god's sake please stop that "what a wasted talent" bullshit, we have enough of scientists, and genius elsewhere, let the man do what he likes with his own brain .

Re:What Doom III is all about

[Osty]

Half life, was built on quake 2 engine

Nope. Quake 1 engine.

You're correct, though. Id's main contribution since Quake 1 is the advancement of engine technology. Quake 2's single player game more or less sucked, and Quake 3 didn't even really have one. However, with Doom 3, Id is supposedly focusing mainly on single player. That means that the single player game should be at least decent, if not good, but more importantly that the multiplayer aspects are likely not getting the attention you expect. As well, theCarmack has said in the past that the Doom 3 handles only a few models on-screen at a time. More than that and it can really start to bog down. That means it'll be great for the atmosphere Doom 3 is trying for, with more tension and paranoia than screens full of monsters, and less great for much else. Will that change? Sure. Hardware will get better, and I'm sure some 3rd parties like Raven will have a go at modifying the engine. The point is that the Doom3 engine is going in quite a different direction from the Quake3 engine, and may not be well-suited (at least initially) for most third-party licensees.

Re:i hate signing up for stuff

[R-2-RO]

Yeah.. and being the over-anxious FuckTard that I am, I signed up, clicked download and got the following:

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IE ?! Fuck You. I don't have IE. Oh well.. Ok. I'll just stream it then.. Wrong! 2 commercials streamed just fine, then the show is about to begin.. BZZZZT! dead link.. Fuck you again.
Fuck you GameSpot. Fuck you.

mirror in sweden

[fredan]

doom3_e32003.mpg

Linux Port:

[westyvw]

I here you brother: Linux should be in the crowd. UT2003 did it, they did it the right way: You bought the game and it was win and Linux, you choose which operating system to run on. Thats the way to go. Here that Carmack? Do it, it makes friends.

More Links!!!

[zeekiorage]

1. Doom3_PCVersion-E3-Traile.rar
2. doom3.zip
3. Doom3-E32003-PCTrailer.zip
4. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
5. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.avi 6. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
7. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
8. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
9. doom_3-e32003-full_video-lores.zip
10. doom_3-e32003-full_video-lores.zip
11. doom_3-e32003-full_video-lores.zip

words can't describe

[StrawberryFrog]

don't mean to sound like a fanboy, but 'words can't describe...'

How about "3d shooter game sequel with fancy shadows"?

Re:Jon Carmack: dooming society?

[ElGanzoLoco]

It?s always the same story? Troubled youth plays doom or quake, he arms himself to the teeth, he kills his classmates. This has happened hundreds of times in the US alone.

In the US alone, or, more exactly, in the U.S. only. (well, it happened in Europe. Once.) The problem is NOT Quake, Doom, violent video games, or even Marilyn Manson. Consider this: ONLY in the U.S. are guns so easily available. If there is a problem here, I'd argue that it is NOT John Carmack; the problem here is N.R.A., and the fact that anybody out there can arm himself/herself to its teeth.

Jon has wasted his intelligence, caused the deaths of innocent children, and warped this country forever.
John Carmack didn't kill anybody. The kids did. Kids are stupid, mostly angry 14 year-old boys. But, would they have killed anybody, hadn't they been able to go and fetch 6 pounds of ammo at Walmart without anybody caring about it? Uh?

You are basically saying that those kids are fragile and got influenced by Jon Carmark's works. All right. Now, let's get rid of computer games, consoles, thai kick-boxing and WWF, who promote violence in similar ways. Let's educate those kids; they should be watching CNN, or something similar, to learn about the world surrounding them, instead of playing stupid games.

What do they see? Assholes blowing up towers by crashing planes into them. (9/11). Oh, shit. Other assholes bombing places flat out and killing everybody in the place, sometimes with no apparent reason (Iraq, but also applies to almost any other war; Chechnya comes to mind). Still more assholes fighting for more or less desperate causes (basque terrorism, corsica, religious fundamentalists) or even for emty pieces of desert land (Israel / Palestine), blowing themselves up in buses, marketplaces, schools, etc.
OK. The world nowadays is sick. Let's turn to... history! After all, history is harmless and taught in the safety of classrooms and libraries.

What do they see? World wars with 50 millions + casualties, entire cities destroyed through conventional or atomic bombings. Genocides, ethnic cleansing, mass rape and mutilation as warfare strategies (Rwanda).
Alright, alright, history sucks.

So, let's study, say, technology instead! After all, technology is "neutral", isn't it?
Oh, every single new technological achievement in the last 200 years was primarily intended for use in warfare . Gunpowder. Steel. Computers. Jet reaction. Even automobile (primary planned use: drag howitzers around). Planes. Nuclear energy. (The automatic machine gun was actually invented a couple of years before... typewriters). Oh, never mind. It's evolution, baby!

I believe there is something morally wrong when millions of people have computerized murder fantasies
There is nothing wrong about having fantasies. We could debate forever if having a "fantasy" is wrong or not. (I dreamt about raping/killing somebody, but I didn't commit anything: would I be to blame? Can individuals be held responsible for their subconscious and half-subconscious feelings?).
Still, let's admit, for the sake of argumentation, that having murder fantasies is wrong. Yes, but face it: it's not Jon Carmack's fault. People had murder fantasies long before computers existed; and not only fantasies, mind you, but they put it into actual practice. (genocide: the annihilation of millions of people by an *at least* equally large number of people: it took the collective work of millions of nazis to kill the 6 millions jews of the holocaust; the hutu/tutsi massacres (800 000 dead in 5 to 6 weeks) were the results of carefully crafted, planned, policies and decisions).

So, you see, the whole world is fascinated by violence and war. Not just computer players. Mankind cares about two things: 1/ surviving, and 2/, making sure it can annihilate itself as fast as possible. (think about the NUMBER of nukes stored in Russia / USA / France / China during the Cold war: more than enough to eradic