Hell Reapproaches
HardOcP’s hardware guide for the upcoming DooM³ game is out. I wonder how DooM³ will compare with the excellent FarCry.
HardOcP’s hardware guide for the upcoming DooM³ game is out. I’m amazed at how good the comparative screenshots look, especially those at low-res and low quality. id Software have done good things with this game, and I’d say that early impressions suggest the waiting was more than worthwhile (fingers crossed for the long-awaited and long-to-be-awaited DNF to follow suit). Luckily for me, the differences seem subtle between high quality settings and ultra quality settings (in which over 500MB of video card RAM is potentially used!!), so my machine won’t need a 6800 right away. Still, it’d be undeniably nice. Along with a nice 30″ LCD with good response time.
I’m interested to see how DooM³ compares with the excellent FarCry, and, indeed, whether it kills that game, especially given the withdrawal of the 1.2 patch and the SDK and modding stuff. I still think it’s cool that Crytek managed to get their game out before DooM³ and Half-ife 2. Of course, FarCry has the advantage of setting. Though it has a somewhat derivative storyline, it’s executed very well, and the amazing abilities of the engine provide an immensely immersive experience. It’s great to have a present-day, real-world (except for the mutant monkey men) game setting. And the water looks good enough to drink. I could watch that water for days.
July 31st, 2004 at 2:22 am
Pah! I think the only setting cooler than mars is hell itself. Of course, I do posess a rather large bias towards Doom 3–Far Cry didn’t really grab me.
July 31st, 2004 at 3:41 am
When I say advantage, I don’t necessarily mean that it is any better than any other setting, including Mars or Hell. Rather, I was saying that being set in the present and in such beautiful surroundings is something that makes FarCry somewhat different. If it was set in the future or on another planet, then it would be superseeded in many people’s minds by Doom 3, and thus all but lost to history. In a pessimistic world, anyway.
August 1st, 2004 at 7:41 pm
Well, if the other ID games are anything to go by, I hope you like orange and brown and all colours that clash with them.
Anyway, Far cry is all about having fun and Doom seems to be story driven this time around, or did I get that completely wrong.
By the way, where the hell did you get delicatessen, I’ve been looking for it all week.
August 1st, 2004 at 10:54 pm
Well, Far Cry is certainly fun and definitely worth having, but I think Doom 3 will be an experience.
Delicatessen? Well, Oz DVD Warehouse, of course! I’m a big fan; I’ve never had any big problems with them, and those that I have had have been sorted out very quickly by their helpful and attentive staff. Their range is absolutely excellent, and their pricing is consistently cheaper on average than anywhere else I’ve seen. Is that a good enough plug?
August 2nd, 2004 at 6:41 pm
they sells plugs as well? Wow! what a store </idiot>
August 4th, 2004 at 11:00 pm
Just got myself a copy of Delicatessen. Very good stuff indeed, I am waiting anxiously for the City of Lost Children release to be done soon…
Pity about the forced subtitles
August 5th, 2004 at 1:58 pm
I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, and I’m not in a particular hurry since I saw it on Austar a few weeks ago.