Tag: idsoftware

Let’s Play Doom 3

Following the rise of 3D gaming environments due to the ready availability of high performance 3D-enabled video cards, Doom graduated from simple polygons and sprite technology to completely immersive environments in Doom 3. I had this game in mind when I built a new PC around an nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card in 2004.

Doom 3 takes place on Mars in the future. A scientist experiments with the occult and unfortunately releases demonic forces that you have to defeat in order to survive. This was the first game that I enjoyed the exhilaration and fear of while playing in the dark.

Let’s Play id’s Doom

After the alternate history Wolfenstein 3D, there was Doom. id Software produced the shareware video game Doom, which I originally got on a few floppy disks from a friend, as a next-generation first person shooter. It still relied on sprite technology, but it produced a more intense game experience than Wolfenstein. It combines mytho-Satanic imagery with an otherworldly environment that you as the human protagonist has to survive.