# I just watched 10 minutes of someone playing Doom III at E3

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**Created:** [June 20, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-10-minutes-of-someone-playing-doom-iii-at-e3/115087 "2002-06-20T16:22:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-10-minutes-of-someone-playing-doom-iii-at-e3/115087/1 "2002-06-20T16:22:43Z")

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I am abso-freakin-lutely stunned, and I don’t use the word abso-freakin-lutely lightly. I had seen some stills and the E3 promo trailer, but they _do not_ do this game justice. The video I saw was not the greatest quality, but it was still apparent that the poly count, animation, and the lighting were worlds beyond anything we’ve seen before in a video game. Muscles and veins were visible beneath skin, there were no sharp edges where they shouldn’t be, and the map looked amazing; dust, fog, sparks, and swinging light fixtures casting incredibly realistic moving shadows. It was close to the quality of the ill-fated Final Fantasy movie.

Graphics aside the game looked damn fun to play. The weapons I saw were standard doom/quake fare, peashooter, machine gun, and my fav the shotgun (will it ever be passé to implant a cartridge of buckshot into a ghoul’s head from point blank?) The enemies I saw were two types of generic looking zombies, some monster with feline movements that can teleport, walk on all fours or two feet, and can pounce on you from across a room, possessed marines with chainguns and whips, a giant, fireball tossing behemoth, and a four-legged worm thing that burst through a wall.

From what I saw I don’t think Id is shooting for originality here, everything I saw can be traced back to other survival/horror shooters especially HL and of course Doom itself. This game isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel, just perfect it. If I could make one request to Id: Big, badass bosses! I mean huge, and plenty of em. I was expecting a lot from this game, but this was beyond anything I had imagined. I can’t wait to play it. Time to start saving for an upgrade.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-10-minutes-of-someone-playing-doom-iii-at-e3/115087/2 "2002-06-20T16:29:59Z")

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Wow, that’s great to hear - when’s the release date? I’m tired of playing all the offshoots and weird WADs out there. Can’t wait!