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[thebes]

Have not tried the new Doom,..still stuck in final Doom. I still love the old first Doom the best. I guess from the memory of many a nights being snuck up on by a stinkin sprite! The gameplay is great. If they changed that all the graphics in the world won't help. At least for me it is the game and gameplay,..not the looks. that is why I was so happy to learn about Abandoina and Dosbox and VDMsound.

[keithwiggins]

I played the Doom95 demo, pretty cool, pretty cool.. my favorite part though was that brain guy with the mechanical legs on the download window.

[Treewyrm]

Well it's no wonder and I knew Doom 3 was going to be a techdemo and not a game. Linearity is what killed the gameplay. Original Doom had a sort of freedom to walk around where you had no hints apart of locked door colors telling you where to go. There was essential part of the FPS gameplay called level exploration, it was preserved in some of the Doom clones like Heretic and then made one of the cornerstone elements in Hexen series. Level exploration is non-existant in Doom 3, after a while I got feeling that I play some of those old "shooter-on-rails" games like Cyberia and Rebel Assault. I got bored really fast with it, completed just for the sake of watching outro which, again no wonder, sucked as well. There is another thing I like about old Doom: illogical levels, some bizzare and surreal level design where things aren't what they are, chaotic placement and yet quite playable, a hellish interpretation of Salvadore Dali, this is what Doom was about. Again there is no such thing in Doom III, it is strict and tight, reusing everything it have hunderds and thousands of times, has to be humanly logical, has to have electronic tablets with descriptions of what you do and where you go. Of course this is understandable considering that most of the game you walk around human bases. But what is Doom without hell? And those few levels where you did actually walk on the surface of hell were the best ones in the whole gam... *cough* techdemo. For me Doom 3 was a dissapointment. Not that it was shocking revelation, I knew it was going to be different and watching footages from the game along with playing early betas I already knew it's not going to be a Doom.

[Mighty Midget]

Don't know this D3 thing. I play (and enjoy) Doom from time to time. Part of the enjoyment is to see the "Mother of all FPSs" in action. Sure, the graphics are rough, but the feel of the game in total is great.