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I'm not going to waste my money on Doom III. Sure, the graphics will
be state of the art. The lighting will be beautiful and unlike
anything we've seen before in a game. The physics engine will be
technically superb. I'm sure the game will be great, but I'm not
interested.
You see, the problem is that I've played it before. It was called
Half Life then, or it was called Halo, or it was called Counter
Strike, or BF1942, or whatever the FPS flavor of the month was. It
didn't have the eye candy that Doom III will have, but it was the same
exact game. You walk around blasting people. That's about it. They
are all exactly the same.
What set Quake 3 apart was the movement speed. In Q3 you could move
so fast you could very nearly dodge bullets ala The Matrix. It is
impossible to camp in Quake. People tried all the time but I was
always able to move fast enough to close the distance with them
between rail shots and nail them with a close range shotgun blast.
I'm not aware of any other FPS game where that's possible.
In Quake, when you meet an opponent, you dance around each other
jockeying for position, strafe jumping, dodging, doing tricks. It's
more like kung fu than it is like a gun fight.
What differentiates one FPS from another are things like graphics, eye
candy, wiz-bang weapons, the story line. But once you get past all
that they are all exactly the same. The gameplay is the same, and
I've done it all plenty of times.
Quake 3 is the only one that's different.
I'm not going to waste my money on Doom III. Sure, the graphics will
be state of the art. The lighting will be beautiful and unlike
anything we've seen before in a game. The physics engine will be
technically superb. I'm sure the game will be great, but I'm not
interested.
You see, the problem is that I've played it before. It was called
Half Life then, or it was called Halo, or it was called Counter
Strike, or BF1942, or whatever the FPS flavor of the month was. It
didn't have the eye candy that Doom III will have, but it was the same
exact game. You walk around blasting people. That's about it. They
are all exactly the same.
What set Quake 3 apart was the movement speed. In Q3 you could move
so fast you could very nearly dodge bullets ala The Matrix. It is
impossible to camp in Quake. People tried all the time but I was
always able to move fast enough to close the distance with them
between rail shots and nail them with a close range shotgun blast.
I'm not aware of any other FPS game where that's possible.
In Quake, when you meet an opponent, you dance around each other
jockeying for position, strafe jumping, dodging, doing tricks. It's
more like kung fu than it is like a gun fight.
What differentiates one FPS from another are things like graphics, eye
candy, wiz-bang weapons, the story line. But once you get past all
that they are all exactly the same. The gameplay is the same, and
I've done it all plenty of times.
Quake 3 is the only one that's different.
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