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Article #93100Re: Doom 3 for the XBOX
From: jgarbuz
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:49
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:49
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Inglo wrote: > On 4/14/2005 6:41 AM maurice brightened our day with: > > >Damn this game is the shit!!!...I am getting by slowly but surely on Marine > >mode and loving the hell out of it. This was my main reason for getting the > >xbox and despite the fact that it may be the "trimmed down" version as some > >have said, I can't see how it makes this game an less enjoyable. I love the > >scares that seem to come out of damn near nowhere and the lighting and > >atmosphere. I also dig the fact that you hafta toggle 'tween the flashlight > >and the weapon. To me, this makes the game all the more tense as well. > > > >So, for what its worth, what exactly is missing from my version of the game? > >Am I missing much? > > > > > > > > > I don't think you're missing anything but the better graphics available > to PC users. I haven't seen any direct comparisons, but I don't see any > reason why all the game content wouldn't be there. > I've played Halo,SWKoToR1, COREFBB, DX2, and POP-SoT (like all those > acronyms :-) ), on both the XBox and PC and the only difference I found > was the XBox was lower resolution and missing directx 9 stuff, less > particle effects etc... I bet D3 XBox doesn't have the same kind of > smoke and steam and it certainly doesn't have the wavy heat haze. > I look forward to giving Doom 3 on the XBox a try, too busy right now > playing through Resurrection of Evil again. I appreciate your review and comments. I think I've been swayed to order my Xbox and Doom3 for it today. But, I understand a new Xbox 360 is slated to come out in the summer. Is it worth it? Maybe the old Xbox prices will fall even more, or the new one will run Doom3 even better!? Do you, or anybody, have any ideas? Thanks.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "jgarbuz" <jgarbuz@netzero.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: Doom 3 for the XBOX Date: 14 Apr 2005 08:49:18 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 47 Message-ID: <1113493757.881717.7020@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <%pu7e.2189$VA3.665@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com> <4gv7e.2288$t85.922@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.236.213.100 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1113493768 6811 127.0.0.1 (14 Apr 2005 15:49:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:49:28 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <4gv7e.2288$t85.922@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=4.236.213.100; posting-account=QrquXwwAAADXocpPzaywVlfqnrjzdJgB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit