No DOOM 3 This Year [Jul 22, 2003, 7:01 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Though id Software basically invented the idea of using "when it's
done" as a release date, and thus did not specify a release date when DOOM
3 was announced (story), many have been assuming that the game
would be available for this year's holiday season (and jcal points out the
DOOM 3 E3 billboard did clearly promise this year). Now a report on HomeLAN
Fed cites Activision's 2003 release calendar
and quarterly
financial conference call to gain a bit more clarity on when to expect the
highly anticipated shooter sequel. Activision admits that this matter is
entirely in id's hands, but that they are not expecting the game this year, and
have it "penciled" on their calendars for fiscal Q4 (Jan-March) 2004.
Further actual release date delays were gleaned from the proceedings as well,
including word that True Crime: Streets of LA is now due in late fall 2003 and
that Rome: Total War, console Call of Duty, Quake IV, and Trinity are now all
due in Fiscal 2005 (which begins April 2004).
Valve plans to re-release every popular mod currently using the Half-Life engine and will see that modders have a full toolkit for converting their mods from HL to HL2.
The implications of this statement are truly staggering IMO (Think Counter-Strike.) If they pull this off Valve can totally own purely from the longevity and popularity HL2 will achieve in the gaming community.
Having said that, I'm still certain that plenty of top commercial outfits will pick up the DOOM engine. Especially those who already have a relationship with id and are planning on making sequels to well-established Q3 titles. What THEY are able to do with the D3 engine, well I dunno, the possibilities are mind-boggling (A MoH game in the D3 engine anyone?)
I really was expecting D3 somewhere around the 10th anniversary of the Original though. Oh well no big deal.
"Nothing livens up a robotic hymn of doom more than an amazing pair of jugs." - Brak
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