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QuakeCon 2003 Coverage - More On Doom III

Posted by simoniker on from the in-the-mood-for-doom dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their series of reports from this year's QuakeCon, currently being held in Dallas, Texas. As well as a general preview article and a set of pictorials on the massive LAN party, the first-day reports focus on in-depth multi-player impressions of Doom III. The preview talks of "'per-pixel hit accuracy' - it's now possible to watch a rocket pass under a player's arm" and singles out "the ragdoll effects produced when hitting players with the rocket launcher, sending them flying in every direction" for the up to four-player deathmatch modes set in a Martian industrial facility.

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  1. Re:Sounds like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    there's something to be said for playing larger objective oriented shooters.
    Yes, and that "something" is "go play one, 'cause this ain't it".

    Id's obviously going in a completely different direction here- they're making a first person horror game, something that (to my knowledge) nobody's done. Semi-massively multiplayer deathmatch just doesn't fit. What's scarier, really? A hoard of teleporting space-jumping yahoos bouncing around an egyptian temple... or one guy feverishly hunting you down in dark hallways?

    Not to mention that, from the sound of it, their engine couldn't handle many more than 3 players on screen at once (and then, with the co-op...) I guess that's what you get for uber-detailed characters.