Doom 3 on the PC- A Review From a Nobody | The Misunderstood Doom Game |
This is a transfer of my Doom 3 review from my old channel. I fixed a couple of mistakes from the original.
In 2006, I took my 2005 tax return money, and headed to Alienware's website with one goal in mind. I know buying a prebuilt is a big no-no among the PC gaming elite, but at the time I had no idea how to build my own. This was when Alienware was the real Alienware, and when it was a lot more common to buy prebuilt Machines. I did skimp on a few things when I ordered it, knowing I would upgrade eventually, so ended up paying just over a grand for the system in it's entirety.
What was it that drove me to buy a brand new PC you might ask, for me, that time frame was the last great era in PC gaming. I'm not saying that PC gaming is dead, or isn't going incredibly strong nowadays, but in that era of gaming when the consoles were jumping from the 6th generation, to the 7th, PC gamers saw the release of Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Quake 4, FEAR, Swat 4, and so many other epic game releases that came with a huge jump in graphical technology with the Source engine, id Tech 4, and Unreal 3 just around the corner.
If you weren't there at the time, think back to the first time you saw ray tracing, and look at how coveted modern GPU's are that can do ray tracing. It was one of those periods where there was a drastic jump in technology for all platforms including the PC. It's the difference between 2003's chaser, and 2004's Doom 3. It was drastic, and was also incredibly exciting to see at the time. I enthusiastically jumped into modern PC gaming at that time, and never regretted it.