So Doom 3 Done

[Dave Baumann]

Well, took a week or so off reviewing in order to get some Doom time in and just completed it this morning. Kept me gripped, but like the write up at 3DCenter, I was terrified for a fair amount of it!

So, what next? Sounds like HL2 will be soon. Until then, both ATI and NVIDIA are intent on keeping us extremely busy, and we've got a few bits an bobs coming in the next few weeks.

Presnelt I have a Sapphire "Toxic" Radeon X800 PRO to finish, and as mentioned, NVIDIA have sent us an NV43 that we'll be putting through its paces - look for that to go up at the same time as everyone elses. ATI will be going Multimedia crazy in the next few weeks, so keep an eye open for a few things there. Nick presently is putting the finishing touches to a Radeon 9550 review and then I'll be sending him a couple of LeadTek 6800's to look at, and Rev should be looking at a Point of View 6800 GT (if we can prise him away from experimenting with the Doom3 engine).

Ah well, busy, busy, busy...

 

[PatrickL]

An other reviewer (Ante P ?) posted some time ago here that ATI will be launching only low end AIW boards. Is it still true or can we expect some AIW X800 XT ?

 

[Diplo]

Sounds like you enjoyed 'Doom 3', Dave? Good, nice to hear someone else appreciated it for what it is, a damn scary game!

Oh, if you want to send me a couple of 6800's I'll do some, erm, really interesting reviews on them, honest

 

[Dave Baumann]

An other reviewer (Ante P ?) posted some time ago here that ATI will be launching only low end AIW boards. Is it still true or can we expect some AIW X800 XT ?

I can't really say anything for sure, but you may want to ask whether there was a time when ATI didn't provide an AIW on based on their high end chip? Having said that, given the apparent difficulties with the Platinum Edition, I doubt adding more components to the board would make that particular SKU easier to produce as an AIW.

Sounds like you enjoyed 'Doom 3', Dave? Good, nice to hear someone else appreciated it for what it is, a damn scary game!

Yes, like I said it kept me coming back and wanting to see more. I wasn't really too concerned about the discussion on whether it was old hat gameplay or not since I don't really have the time to really need to spend a week trying to get into the game and understand it in the first place - thats the simple reason I found Painkiller a bit of a larf, as I could just boot it up and shoot the shit out of some stuff and turn it off when I felt I needed to write / bench a little more or get on with the rest of my life. Doom3 wasn't exactly the same pace as Painkiller, but it was equally as immediately accessible.

 

[Blade]

I'm a decent way in, and so far it's been.. occasionally frightening.

 

[AlphaWolf]

ATI will be going Multimedia crazy in the next few weeks, so keep an eye open for a few things there.

Some AIW products I hope.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I'm getting my copy of Doom 3 next week

Hopefully i'll get my X800 next week too.

US

 

[RussSchultz]

Presnelt

!?

 

[Rambler]

Presnelt

!?

My tip goes for "Presently"