Doom 3 Hardware Guide Debuts

Nosf3ratu writes "Over at HardOCP, the boys have teamed up with id software again to publish the Official Doom 3 Hardware Guide. As the guide states: 'With the prospect of so many new people being brought into gaming by DOOM 3, there will likely be a lot of questions regarding the computer hardware needed to support it.'"

Comments

Re:Sweeeeeet.

[Kenja]

So, those upside down metallica video reject flying skulls look "good" in low quality mode? Because they look like crap in every screen shot I've ever seen.

Doom3. Nice engine. Some day I hope to see a game made that uses it.

Their logic escapes me

[Noose For A Neck]

I'd like to know how a game that requires a whole new (expensive) generation of hardware to live up to its graphical promise is going to somehow draw in a large group of new people into gaming. Let's go over Doom 3's deficiencies:

• An unoriginal plot
• An unoriginal genre
• Did id even bother hiring writers?
• High hardware requirements

Sure, you can play on lower-end hardware at 640x480, but then what's the point? There's a whole generation of games coming out right now (I can't possibly imagine Half-Life 2 being less substantive) that offer the same kind of visuals with a much more substantive game to go along with them. Why bother? I guess you could add it to your benchmark suite to show people how paying $600 for a graphics card really was worth it, but then again, you can get 3DMark as a free download. Why?

Bah.

[Kid Zero]

I'll wait for someone who hasn't gone to bed with ID software and Nvidia to review the game before I pass judgement.

I get suspicious when all I saw in the review was Intel's latest crap.

Re:And on the software front...

[john_smith_45678]

MS-DOS doesn't do any of that stuff either. Plus it crashes a whole lot less. Perhaps you should switch to that instead.