Doom 3 BFG Edition: Review

Let’s say you love sweets very much. You have chewing gum in one hand, and in the other – chocolate. One day you walk along the street and see a colorful box with the inscription “Shokozhvachka” on the window of the store. You ask the seller in bewilderment what kind of miracle is. And he answers you that this is a set of chewing gum and chocolate. Two in one – but at the price of ten. What would you do based on economic expediency? That’s right, they would have sent a seller away.

Unfortunately, games are not sweets. They have fans. And fans are unhappy creatures, they have to absorb and justify everything related to the chosen brand. Therefore, a new product ID Software – Doom 3 BFG Edition, included all three parts of the legendary series – will not be left without attention. We are not fans, but impartial judges. So let’s figure out what is in our box.

Poorly forgotten old

Doom 3 BFG Edition – This is a reprint doom 3. Genre and the meaning of reprints is very dark. But it is intuitive that the new version is how to meet a very old friend after a long separation. The game is the same, but somewhere they fucked something, fell something, added something. From the exemplary projects of resuscitation of the classics, I recall Baldur’s Gate 2 Big World Project, In addition to the original campaign, a huge number of unofficial additions and patches were included. The “Project of the Greater World” was meaningfully different from the original “Baldura”. We’ll say right away that BFG Edition a completely different field of berry.

Even before the game is released, developers from ID Software The press painted the extremely promising picture of the reprinted version of Doom 3. Like, this is not just a new version – it is much more. The developers proudly promised to make the picture brighter, enter the “checkpoints” system and modify the flashlight.

In fact, the long -awaited novelty for many fans turned into the same chocolate, incomprehensible purpose and taste of a plain, raised from three long -already released and all a hundred times replayed parts. At launch BFG Edition Immediately offers the gamer three reasons for a nostalgic tears. The first two parts Doom well adapted to Windows 7, so if you were born before the nineties, then two -dimensional monsters will help to plunge into a distant atmosphere of childhood. We will turn to the third part of the series, which now for many is the distant past.

Mission lost

Doom 3 has become worse. In every sense. Having launched it and trying to digest in graphic settings, we find in horror … that there are no such! All that is in the power of a player is to change the screen resolution, to configure the power of the effects of Motion Blur and Antialiasing. Marveling at this, we move on. At the start, we will again expect a triple choice. You can start the original doom 3, the official addition of the Resurrection of Evil or a brand new campaign Lost Mission. We, of course, are primarily interested in the last.

Lost Mission Immediately takes from a place in a quarry – not teasing the player with plot preludes, he is immediately released into the aviaries of the underworld. Monsters in huge quantities rush to the hero. Moreover, the density of the appearance of new types of enemies in time is extremely large – after an hour and a half of the game we will get acquainted with all the types of inhabitants of hell from the original doom 3. And after another and a half hours already all Lost Mission will be passed.

The substantive side does not compensate for the transientness of the “lost mission”. Nothing radically new in terms of gameplay was not offered to us. A player in an outdated corridor mode moves along the monotonous levels of the Martian base, built in the style of the original. The situation is slightly closer to the finals, when the hero enters hellish lands – infernal landscapes are more diverse and colorful.

The chip with added https://playzeecasino.uk/ control points generally remained incomprehensible. Why are they needed, if you can still be preserved at any time? Probably, the developers were worried about players suffering from amnesia.

Further, the list of disappointments is only expanding. The same set of weapons that exterminates the same set of monsters. Physics in the game was not there,. Monsters behave predictably. In general, the gameplay is hopelessly outdated, and the developers did not bother to at least optimize it for the requests of modern gamers. The classic, of course, is eternal. But her place is in the museum, and not on the shelves, and for a decent price.

As usual, the player will find text and audio recordings of former inhabitants of the laboratory. If interested, you can listen to any chatter about the life and life of scientists. If not, it still will have to, because the academic community has the usual at the very end of its five -minute sayings to report codes from cabinets with useful contents like new weapons or cartridges. New missions will not cost without a standard horror technique related to audio recordings: listening to any of them will certainly end with dying heartbreaking cries. Horror.

However, we will not ironize. The new campaign keeps in suspense. Monsters constantly appear from behind, jumps sharply from behind the corners and hide behind closed doors. Play is really scary.

It is better not to turn on the flashlight

Now I would like to say that not everything is so bad. And bring a couple of arguments. But it will now be about the schedule.

The developers kept their promise. They modified the flashlight, attaching him to the body of the protagonist. Now at the same time you can shoot and illuminate outdated textures doom 3. Now it seems that it would be better if they remained in the shadow. The graphics not only did not become better, but a little worsened. However, the answer becomes clear if you recall that Doom 3 BFG Edition – Console port. Optimization of the game and was aimed at the console. Maybe the winners of the prefixes will be happy, but there is nothing to look at users of the PC.

Although there is a category of population that a picture of a reprint can pleasantly surprise. These are future owners of the helmet Oculus Rift. BFG Edition Supports stereoscopic image. Perhaps with him the game turns into a beautiful swan. But we don’t know anything about it. And besides, this will not make the release of the publication more meaningful, given the complete absence of positive changes. Flashlight does not count.

It is not clear for whom, why and why was developed BFG Edition. Something is all like a situation in a foreign classic of rock. Old rock groups like Deep Purple, incapable of producing something new due to the age and lack of creative fuse, arrange touring in the world, re-quail old hits. In the world of games, creators are also aging and creatively povert. And the desire to earn remains.

It may very well be, fans and console will be satisfied. But this is not the point. After the failure of Rage Exit BFG Edition can be regarded exclusively as a mockery. When you expect serious things from the company, and in response you get products that are obviously created solely for the purpose of earnings, it becomes insulting and sickening in your soul.

Pros: the ability to play in doom 1-2;flashlight.
Cons: a negligible number of changes;outdated gameplay;spoiled graphics;The transientity of the new campaign.

Grade: Garbage

Doom 3 BFG Edition

The best comments

The same situation was with Max and his noir, the third diabol, code and, perhaps, with a dozen games. Welcome to the world of SG comments, a world where an adult public is really less than a “young”.

Heh, for me, so a flashlight on my shoulder is the most important minus and it is done for console, correct if I’m wrong! After all, it created an atmosphere of horror in 2004. And they could also half the zombies-) about the dynamic shadows, which also removed, I really are silent, so that the schoolboy for the TV, God forbid the bricks, would not make any bricks … in general, friends are sad, but all the same we are waiting for the DUM-4 🙂

I agree with the review entirely and completely, ready to subscribe to every word. I repent, I downloaded the BFG Oedish from the torrent, because I had already bought the original Duma 3, and I already bought the addition in a license, I did not want to spend money on it again, but I wanted to see what the barns were there. I expected that if I liked the remastering version, then I was quite ready to buy it in Steam. After 15 minutes of the game, the only feeling that visited me is not even disappointment, but bewilderment. I understand that the outfits wanted to “make” the owners of the consoles, who probably slept and saw how they would play in Duma 3 on their prefixes. But why port the console version of the RS-game again on the computer? (Although p Flatout: Ultimate Carnage This number passed, and very successfully, I must admit). And even bend the price for the game of eight years ago higher than, for example Painkiller: Hell and Damnation (global remastering of the original on a new engine) or even new Hitman: Absolution.
And the graphics, indeed, faded somewhat. In addition to the lantern, which the developers strengthened on the armor significantly added light sources at the levels and intensified their intensity. As a result of the dark places in the Duma, there was practically no left, and all the flaws of graphics came out, which in its time was even one of the most technological, but by no means the most beautiful, but now it looks like an anachronism in general.
There was the only hope for a new campaign, but here it was my complete disappointment. Plot … hmm … it is not that bad. It is as if not. The only initial cut scene on the engine turned out to be the same scene that we have already seen in the original, somewhere in the middle of the game. The number of PDAs that were scattered everywhere, and from which we received at least those grains of the plot in the original, decreased by many times. But I finished me down that in the whole new campaign I did not see a single new weapon or monster. In general, not a single new model, even some shitty garbage bucket or monitor. Nothing at all! This is so compressed 10 times the original clone, assembled from absolutely the same designer. A few kilometers of a intake corridor with monsters and boss at the end, which was also in the original. If only the textures of the walls were painted in a different color, or at least some new content added. Alas, no. All passage is crumpled. Monsters, the appearance of each of which was accompanied by a scene in the original, here is just a crowd. The passage looks like this: Corridor-Corridor-Cororor-Monstra-Monstra-Monstra-Corridor-Cororida-Koron-Montera-Kororidor-Bolly door-monster-monster-monstra-monster-monster-colorid-carrier-monster-carrier-Kororida-Knopka! (eh you og, the button allowed to click. Remember how many of them were in the original?) -the corridor-corridor-monster-corridor-monster-car-monstra-AD-Monstrymonstrymonstrymonstrymonstra-boss-tutors. What. This. Was?
Probably, perhaps, except that the first two parts launched on the “seven” without dosboxes and other dances with tambourines, but this, you see, was not worth a new reprint.
ID Software Once again she proved her failure, which is very sad, given their long -standing merits.

Doom III: BFG
Placed textures, dynamic shadows, smoothing out, the EAX sound was cut, the bump was desecrated, but they added soap when turning, the textures of the young console do not have to be planted from the dark, obviously x360 with PS3 in high resolution, they simply do not pull the dum3 2004 in their original form, in principle, they did not work well, especially with the flashlight, worth ittheir $ 30.

And now it’s still a joke:
Recommended system requirements Doom 3: BFG:
OS: Windows Vista-64/ Windows 7-64
Processor: dual -core 2.4 GHZ
RAM: 3 GB
Video card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 / Ati Radeon HD 5850, 768 MB

Recommended system requirements Doom 3:
P-3 1.5 GHZ (P-4 3GHZ);384MB (512MB) RAM;128MB Video

The question is, if the graphics obviously became an order of magnitude worse, then what the hell are the requirements rose by ~ 6 times.

Well, not “garbage” that you. At least you can play, remember, and move. So it was possible to slap a “passage”.

In my eyes, Id Software fell completely. Now I will be soooooooooo: is it worth buying their new “revolutionary game”.