Doom III Goes Gold!!!!!!!!!eleven

[Vlad Antlerkov]

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Last Updated: 07/14/2004 12:36:49 (Central Standard Time)
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7-14-2004 11:52 AM CDT

IT'S DONE!!!!!!!

Yes, this is the official word that DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing!
It won't be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with
Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally
GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our
numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made.

So, the next question is release dates. Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting
at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. The official street date is actually August 5th in the U.S.A., but some of
your favorite stores will probably have it early for those of you who have to have it first. Check with
your local retailer for that information.

Internationally, the game will take a few more days to make it to the store shelves. The UK will probably get it first, on or about August 6th. Everywhere else will probably be Friday, August 13th (que Twilight Zone Theme) or close to that date, with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland). This isn't
because we don't have love for you folks outside the U.S., but the localization and manufacturing process
takes a bit longer outside the U.S. where we will have JVC run 24/7 to get the units built. I guess the
European manufacturers prefer to give their employees nights and weekends off. Go figure!

The champagne is flowing here at id and smiles abound!

I'll update again with some DOOM 3 preparation tips (not what hardware to buy - you'll have to wait for
a programmer for that sort of thing). In the meantime, I want to see those "DOOM 3 GOLD!!!" threads set
new records for swamping message board servers, destroying productivity, and post counts ;-)

Recapping today's headlines....DOOM 3 GOLD!!!

[Verto]

What's special about DOOM? It was just Wolf3D with monsters.

[Apocalypse]

But with Doom, you had the illusion of going up and down.

[Jamski]

Its just ANOTHER FPS, right?

-Jam

[Traianvs]

Yeah but it should have some nice shadow effects to scare you once in a while. I like playing the games, but usually I finish the games after 2 days. I really speed like a rocket through FPS games

[Apocalypse]

I'm the kind of guy who spent 30-45 minutes on most of the levels of Doom. Largely because I kept getting lost.

[Maquiladora]

Just another game i wont get to fully enjoy till another few years when ive upgraded enough.

and why arent they releasing a DVD version? Only 4 CD's apparently.

[Solver]

Yeeehaw!



The third part of the best shooter over. It will definitely be appreciated BOTH as a MP deathmatch game and as a single player game. It's rare to have a good single player game now, really. If it's half as good as it seems to be, that one is staying on my hard drive for years, just like the first two parts.

[DrSpike]

Nice.

[Skanky Burns]

Interesting. I wonder if it will have the same atmosphere as the original.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, I have posted about this in the OT because no one ever goes here But seriously, I am looking forward to it - should kill a bit of time

[alva]

4 CD's? Dang, that's rather huge to erm try out.

[DrSpike]

Has anyone played the beta? Ordinarily as it's id I would have, but I didn't get around to it.

[Adagio]

What is the min. req for this game?
I'll probably just *find* this game somewhere, since I'm not that interested in Doom, but I would like to see the graphics since I've heard they should be great

[Solver]

Right. The first official review is out already.

The game supports no videocard under Geforce 4 MX. I'm glad I got a new card recently! PC Gamer says that a 2GHz machine with 512MB RAM and GeForce 5700 was able to run the game pretty well on 1024.

The most sensible thing will probably be to play under 800x600, in which case it won't be bad.

Well, anyway, the beta worked at 20+ FPS for me all the time, which is fine, and given that it was optimized for ATI cards...