Why the hell did you guys need GodMode for ?
I have to admit I didn't die ONCE before I reached the hell levels. The first hell level boss was the first one to kill me. What the hell is wrong with you all ? I played on Marine difficulty and this was one of the easiest game I've played in a long time. In fact,that got me bored because of the lack of a decent challenge throughout ¾ of the game. The cheap scares: Grab armor, get ready here they spawn, that didn't work more than once on me. Game looks nice and that's about all that saves it from being a very bad game altogether.
Replay it, kill the base workers as soon as you get your first gun, watch em respawn as zombies once all hell breaks loose. Cheezy trick id!
Nice graphics though, now let's see some engine licensees make a decent game out of it. Forget what I've just said, give me HL2 I'm pretty sure that'll be more interesting.

There's even a joke inside the game to justify the presence of the chainsaw. Some NPC says at some point "What the hell, we ordered jackhammers and they sent us a whole shipment of chainsaws, what the hell we need chainsaws for on Mars ?"

I think id added this joke for all the chainsaw whiners out there.
;-)

If you take Doom3 for the game it is, you won't be disapointed.
But if you buy it with the expectations that it will encompass everything we have seen and liked in every other FPS games you'll be sorely disapointed. Doom3 is Doom3 don't expect it to be anything else. It's id's vision of what the game should be and they're not trying to please every gamer's taste needs/wants. It's their game, their vision... like or not. I for one, I'm looking forward to the multiplayer aspect that everyone seem to bash because it's only 4 players. (Massive and team based MP are so overated IMO) I think 2V2 DM in claustrophobic maps should make for a very interesting Old school type DM with the flashlight and shadowy areas and lights that can be turned on/off etc. should make the MP very interesting and different from anything we've seen.
I'm looking forward to the whole game not expecting anything but to be fully entertained and have a helluva good time. If they don't have my prefered weapons/map design/Intelligent AI. I could care less. I expect the best id game ever and nothing else.

I thought about this improvised center channel after I had to have my Z560 (RMA)replaced. My sub-Woofer died one month after the purchased. I called up Logitech and they told me to send them back the controller (volume thingy) and to cut-off the power cord on the sub-woofer and send 'em that too. I thought this was crazy since I was left with 4 extra speakers that worked fine...but anyway. I tried to use one of the speakers as a center channel but since it's un-powered by itself the sound was very low. I tried to add a booster thingy I bought at Radio shack, that helped a little but wasn't loud enough either. Finaly, I decided to buy a cheapo set of speakers that looked as good as the Logitechs and wouldn't look too much out of place. The ones I bought have a Triangle shape, so what I did, is use hot-glue to secure one of the extra Logitech speaker chrome stand I had from the extra ones on one of the side of the triangle-shaped speaker. It now sits nicely side-ways (lengthwise) on top of my monitor and looks every bit like any normal center channel. Once you adjust the volume on both (4.1 and 2.0)so that the center channel or the 4.1 don't overwhelm each-other you just need to use The windows main volume control to lower or raise the sound on all five speakers at the same time and they are always prefectly balanced. Nothing beats a little ingenuity when you don't have the cash, I guess. ;-)

I have the Audigy 2 platinum (pre-ZS) I really like the Live Drive thingy because of the availability of the many front inputs for headphones and mic in games plus optical outs, midi, firewire port for my iPod etc. (I never cared for the remote control though and never even used it)
I also play Electric Guitar so I plug my guitar into my Zoom FX processor and the FX processor out into the front line-in of the Live Drive and have the sound come out of my Logitech Z560 and can directly record what I play on the computer that way with great guitar effects. The front drive is just very convenient for what I do, before I had the Audigy2 I used to have a NewQ Platinum for mic and headphone front inputs only, that worked for 2-channel strereo doubled to the rear speakers only and couldn't work right with audigy 2 you lose some functionality, FrontX is the same you lose 5.1 sound if you use it with Audigy2. Live drive is the most useful and convenient part of Audigy2 package for me at least.
Oh and btw, if you already have a 4.1 system and don't have the cash to buy a 5.1 yet for doom3... You can always do like I did. I bought a 2.0 labtec speaker set just to add a center channel to my current logitech 4.1. You plug it in the center channel plug in the back of Audigy2 card, now, only one of the the 2 speakers will work but that's fine since center channel is MONO anyway, you then set the speakers sound balance ONCE and then after that initial set-up just adjust the sound level of all 5 speakers via your keyboard volume knob or windows volume. The speaker that is not working from the 2.0 set is hidden under my desk out of the way, the center channel sits on top of my 21" monitor. This works great in DVDs for now until I'm ready and have the cash to get a proper 5.1 but this works in a pinch and I don't see any reason to change my great sounding Logitech 4.1 set yet just for DVDs and a few odd games. I mostly into music anyway.

That's what I thought as a teenage too. My dad hated my music. I hated his. Now I sorta like his so I guess that makes me old ? He likes the Heavy metal shit I play on the Guitar now...because it's his son doing it and the dude even buys some heavy metal CDs now... We just need an open mind. Getting older helps. I hated classical music for most of my life and swore I would never listen to that shit. I do now... I'm old... I guess, that's what experience brings you, you expend your views. It's not just black and white anymore it's a friggin' rainbow. As you grow older you never forget your root but you open up to music that you would never listen to as a kid. As a musician it helps too, to create more interesting stuff. Beethoven mozart etc... were geniuses. Hard to understand that as a 12 year old. When all you care about is Twisted Sister and Mötley Crue. I've been there. I'll be 90 years old and still listen to shout at the devil and have fond memories. Also all the Whitesnake songs I screwed the brains out my first girlfriend on. No matter how bad you think those bands are, music is the memory of your life. Hear an old song and propels you to what you were doing at that time. Nothing beats music not even dope.

His symptoms are akin to mild Schizophrenia, where someone suffering from this only find his own logic is the only one possible...impenetrable, he can't be at fault.

Forget about it.
He needs a shrink...

Do you know what the say of a lawyer who defends himself?

He's got a fool for a lawyer. ;-)

J/k

I totally agree with you Flood...If it's Tool who did it, it is weak as hell to do a cheap copy of Lateralus (no creativity at all involved) if it's Tweaker it's just a pale copy of Tool's work.
Either way... it's bad and It's kinda sad too. For someone who's never heard Tool before it might sound kinda cool, but if you are a Tool fan like me this is lame no matter who's the real person responsible for the creation of this theme song. Not that it's a bad tune, just that the better version was already recorded by Tool before. That's reminescent of most tunes remake we hear from rip-offs like Kid Rock. Man these peeps build up a reputation by playing bad versions of songs that were originaly created and recorded by artists that did the same song 10x better. It's sad that new generations think this is totally new stuff and the original artists get no credits in the minds of this new generation, while the rip-offs become milionaires... Very sad. In 10 years from now, I'll release my version Of Purple Haze and people will think I'm the shit new guitar player while nobody will even know who Jimi was. Sad... Nobody will ever be as good or even better than Jimi himself... but some ignorant kids in a future generation, I'm willing to bet, will hear his songs done by some idiot and think; Oh man this is the shit!

Ubisoft is a French owned company, they have many smaller shops all over the world, like EA has: EA north, EA west, EA Vancouver (Now EA Montreal) etc. Montreal is just one such small Ubisoft shop, they used Montreal as a base to develop North American titles because many Montreal developers are bilingual so they can translate all the French Titles made in France as well as develop their own titles. The First Splinter Cell was coded entirely in Montreal including its engine. Pandora Tomorrow was programed in Germany using the previous engine while Ubisoft Montreal was hard at work on the next gen engine and third instalment of Splinter Cell. I live in Montreal and a friend of mine has been working on Splinter Cell 3 since day the first one came out.

With a name like yours I'd suggest you go play your sissy MMORPG instead of whining.

If you don't like WWII games don't buy 'em.
There are plenty of people who enjoy them more than Sci-fi or fantasy games. There's a game for everyone.

Pick your game, play it and shut up.

Blue a Def Leppard fan ?

Missing the point? The point being that FPS games are no fun multiplayer? Like Doom?
Gotcha.
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For those 2 games MP is more or less an afterthought than anything special. If you think you will have great MP value you are missing the point of the game, that's what I mean. Far Cry and Doom 3 are primarily Single Player games with MP tacked on for whiners that always say "if it doesn't have MP I'm not buying it." ;-)

Runs smooth as butter with 3.9 on 9800pro at 1280x960 2x ani 4xFSAA on I think, everything maxed out anyway. I started playing the first level at 1200X1600 but when there is a lot of baddies firing at you at the same time it gets a little slow. The game is awesome.The best 3D engine I've seen so far on an ATI card. Beats BFV by a ton and the graphics are truly next-gen. Don't bother with people who critisize this awesome game. they are either jaded gamers or just plain stupid. It's the best FPS single player game since HL in IMO. This is the game to beat for Doom3 and HL2 and may make 'em decide to delay even longer. ;-) They have a steep hill to climb let me tell you. Get it you won't regret it at all.

Oh, if you buy this game for MP you are totally missing the point...Same goes for Doom3.

Specs: 9800 pro 128, p4 2.4 400fsb 1024 DDR 2600. Audigy2 platinum.


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I have to say Far Cry is one of the first games with no Quick save option that didn't actually bother me. Almost everytime you have to redo a part because you die... The AI actually does react differently. I think at one point I must have tried 8 or 9 different ways to get through one part and the AI never reacted the same way twice. In areas connected by 2 entrance for instance if you stay in the same area too long, they flank you and sneak behind you. I think that's the so-called Advanced AI at work. You face them from one door, they exit on the other side and surprise you. I know I have not seen this behavior in any other games before. I think some bots have a more complex subroutine than others. If every enemy were as adept as the toughest ones the game would bog down even on killer hardware. They have to make some compromise considering the amount of calculations it takes to make a believable AI and make it distinct for every bot. That is simply impossible to achieve with current technology.
Some bots are completely dumb and some which the developers chose react more believably. The developers cannot imagine what every gamers would do to solve a particular problem so if you decide to do something that wasn't expected from the programmers, the AI indeed will look dumb. Even with its flaws I think Far Cry far surpasses anything I have played before. Let's see if Doom3 or HL2 can do better.

Exactly I'll buy both too.

At least there is one innovation in Doom3 that everyone will talk about. There is no USE key:
The Crosshair changes when you face and point an object that you can interact with, so you are never distracted. Just click the mouse and keep focused on the important movement keys.
I think everyone will like this new, yet simple - but someone had to think about it - new feature.

How about MS dropping the x86 architecture for the next Xbox because they don't want people hacking cheap linux box out of them?

Also, don't forget the new Xbox2 will basically be a Macintosh...wow !
Maybe this means more games on the mac in the future and less Xbox2 games ported on the PC ?
If the Xbox2 uses powerPC chip forget backward compatibility it is out of the question.
PowerPC is a RISC chip and Intel/AMD are CISC chips They'd have to emulate old Xbox games in software. That won't happen.

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I agree with you.
Most games that feature vehicle are overated.
BF1942 is a notable exception but most others suck bad!

I like the simplicity of being a soldier on foot shooting shits. I enjoy solving complex puzzles on foot as well. Vehicle are mostly boring, at least to me they are, I hate driving games.
BTW on a side note. Call of Duty is gorgeous and totally awesome !! I think it's a GOTY candidate for sure (if HL2/D3 are not released this year)
I hope Infinity Ward will use the Doom3 engine and make a Call of Duty 2 or something. These guys sure know how to make an immersive and unique gaming experience that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Yeah, looks like HL2 won't be alone...