Doom 3 multiplayer preview (quakecon 2003)

Personally I'm more looking forward to what the other games that use the respective engines will look like. I think we've all found that a company freed from having to develop an engine and create the game at the same time will be able to pour far more resources into actual game development and graphic tuning, as evidenced by HL with the Quake engine, albeit heavily modified.

 

I'm completely the other way around. I've found HL2 to be kind of unimpressive, overall. Its graphics are certainly better than anything else currently out, but... that's to be expected. Next gen games = next gen graphics. It's a step up from No One Lives Forever 2, but it's not a giant leap. Doom 3, however, has a stunning cinematic quality, due in no small part to its lighting.

 

Hi, this is my first post here .
I agree that Doom 3 does have it's own cinematic look and quality, but the textures aren't as detailed as Half-Life 2. I could be wrong...we all could be wrong since we haven't really seen anything other than the E3 videos and unmentionable leaks. The tests of Doom 3's performance are very misleading to ATI users, who in the end will have the overall better experience when playing the game. Nvidia will use it's own Nv30 codepath, thus reducing everything to FX12 (?) while ATI will be running in FP24 (R350 can maybe do FP32). With the current state of drivers from Nvidia and from ATI, it looks like ATI will pull ahead with it's almost 5-10X faster PS2.0. I guess we'll have to wait for an actual test that we can run to determine just how well Nvidia can run Doom 3 on it's (faulty) Nv30.

As a side note, I hope there will be a widescreen option in the game...Half-Life 2 already has it.