Doom 3's Release Date; Quake Turns 8

LehiNephi writes "Apparently, GameStop has an updated product page for long-awaited PC FPS Doom 3, along with the note: 'Official launch date of August 3rd, 2004 confirmed!', although the official Doom 3 site hasn't yet been updated, sporting just a 'coming soon' notice. [Blue's News also has further info, noting 'that the British Board of Film Classification has a DOOM III Listing with a rating for the game, a seeming indication that they've already been able to review all its content'.]" In related news, Ag3nt writes "One of the biggest leaps in PC gaming technology, Quake, celebrated its 8th birthday yesterday, according to an AmpedNews piece - there's also a birthday note on John Romero's homepage."

Comments

Skeptical

[generic-man]

I'm always skeptical about release dates, but at least two stores are consistent this time. EB Games has the release date for Doom III listed as August 3 as well, but the strategy guide comes out on July 10. You can spend three weeks reading up on the game and then kick ass at it!

Gameshops telling release dates : What's new ?

[88NoSoup4U88]

They have been doing that as long as they 've been selling on-line. They don't know, but are counting on the people foolish enough to pre-buy it with them.

I won't believe any dates untill i see a 'we gone gold' message from the id-dudes themselves.

Setting the date at the start of August, would still be very convenient for the die-hards at Quakecon (12 -15 August) to have a LAN-go at it.

Anyhow, I'm very curious , and patiently await the 'we gone gold' message.

On a last note : Seeing that Splashdamage took the multiplayer portion as their part (at least leveldesign) i -know- the MP part is gonna rock my socks off, since they (co-) created the very cool (free) game Enemy Territory. For more info on this upcoming studio, check out their site, and give Enemy Territory a try, if you haven't allready. www.splashdamage.com

Amazon has pre-order for $49.99 and different date

[DJFelix]

Amazon.com has Doom 3 available for pre-order as well, with August 1, 2004 listed as the release date.

Oddly enough, they also have Half Life 2 available as preorder as well listing September 1, 2004 ...

They will even give you a deal if you pre-order both at the same time ... I'm not holding my breath.

Re:backhanded compliment ....

[aardwolf204]

Incase anyone was wondering, it goes kinda like this:

Wolfenstein 3D :: Wolf3d Engine

Wolfenstein 3D 2 (Spear of Destiny) :: Wolf3d Engine

Doom :: Doom Engine

Doom 2 :: Doom Engine

Quake :: Quake Engine

Quake 2 :: Quiake Engine (beef'd up)

Quake 3 :: Quake 3 Engine

Return to Castle Wolfenstein :: Quake 3 Engine (Beef'd up)

Doom 3 :: Doom 3 Engine ...
...

So now we've got 3 Wolfensteins, 3 Quakes, and 3 Dooms. Each of which has an original and a sequal on the same engine, and a third on new engine, which gets recycled to make the next game.

Whats coming next?...

Quake 4 :: Doom 3 Engine (prolly?)
Then what, Wolf 4, Doom 4.... I'm all for new and shiny, but at some point id needs to come up with something fresh. Their last new series was 8 years ago.