[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Doom 3!, Gone gold... won't be long now.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/14/news_6102542.html

There you have it. August 3rd, people!

Woot!

Finally! So many long years of waiting for this gem is finally being paid off. I think I'll go out and preorder my copy tomorrow. This is just going to be too big of a hit to miss. Looks like it's time for some good, old-fashioned demon slaying action. Except, this time, the demons are more than 2d sprites running around in DOS. :P

Pricing on Doom 3 is a bit odd though. $55... Most games are either $50 or $40 these days (and I really have never seen a $55 PC game... even back in the $60 age).

This post has been edited by TWINE006: Jul 15 2004, 03:24 AM

Some Doom 3 Benchmarks Courtesy of HardOCP.

Pretty much a useless benchmark unless you're a lucky owner of a GeForce 6800 or X800 Pro (or SOON-to-be owner of X800 XT PE in all of it's ridiculously-long-name glory).

Last benchmark is a bit more useful to me though. Radeon 9800 isn't too bad and my 9700 isn't too far behind. However, another fault in these benchmarks is that their systems themselves are also ridiculously overpowered compared to those of most gamers (they have 3.6 GHz P4's and 4 GB of DDR2 RAM, lol). I suppose we'll just have to see for ourselves how it will run on our own hardware,

Maybe all hope is not lost. It's too bad they didn't give us some benchmarks from those rigs though. :huh:

This post has been edited by TWINE006: Jul 23 2004, 05:41 AM