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Doom 3 Expansion and Xbox Version

Posted by Zonk on from the better-than-the-movie dept.

id Software revealed today that early April will see the release of Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, and an Xbox port of the original Doom 3 shooter. From the article: "This is DOOM 3 built for the Xbox, including 480p and wide-screen support, full Xbox Live multiplayer, and the Xbox exclusive 2-player co-op campaign. For fans of DOOM 3 on the PC, Resurrection of Evil takes you to the undiscovered depths of the UAC's Mars base and back to Hell itself for a vicious new battle with the forces of evil and the most ferocious demons imaginable."

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  1. hmm by Staplerh · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow, on one level the URL leads to a press release-esque article, trumpeting the successes of Doom III and predicting great things for the future. No criticism or critical thought is apparent there, but I have some problems.

    I've seen screenshots of the doom III proposed port to the XBox, and I've also wondered how the XBox will run Doom III - given the XBox's technical inferiority to top-end systems.

    My money would say that Doom III will be a failure as an Xbox port, after the intial surge of players that are interested in playing. Any opposing thoughts, or insight into the Xbox graphical system that would allow Doom III on Xbox to look anywhere near as good as it does on a top-end PC?

    Cheers.

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    1. Re:hmm by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 4, Insightful
      one of the problems with PC games versus console games is that console developers can tweak all the settings to make their game squeeze every ounce of power out of the console.

      in developing PC games, you can't tweak your code that finely, because you have to support a wide variety of machines.

      take as an example, Splinter Cell for Xbox. A game that was incredibly graphics intensive, featuring quite a few effects that would choke a machine with the exact same specs.

      I think doom3 will be successful on the xbox, but not nearly to the extent that it was on the PC.

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  2. Wow! This should be a great expansion! by snuf23 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...undiscovered depths of the UAC's Mars base"


    Wow! What an amazing and unique choice of setting! I wonder if it will look like the discovered depths of the Mars base.

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