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More DOOM 3
[Aug 14, 2003, 11:01 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Luckily Texas seems just a hair southwest of the blackout, so there's another couple of DOOM 3 multiplayer previews on GameSpot, IGN and Computer and Video Games based on what they've gotten to see of the shooter at QuakeCon (there are also some QuakeCon Pics on HomeLAN Fed). Here's a bit from IGN:

You'll find it's much harder to hit your enemies in this game than in the previous ones. No longer does a single hit box surround your opponents. Now all hits have to be scored on the actual polygons of the character models. Todd explains that this is a natural evolution for action games given the increasing skill of players. As they get better, targets have to get smaller to compensate. While fighting you'll find that bullets can pass in between a character's legs or the space between their torso and arms without damaging them. You'll need to be much more accurate now with each of your shots. Still, it's not too hard to score kills, particularly if you're playing against a bunch of journalists operating on two hours of sleep and a three-whiskey breakfast.

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Aug 15, 2003, 00:03

Creston

Cool Aug 15, 2003, 00:03

Aug 15, 2003, 00:03

Creston

The stupid hitbox has annoyed me plenty over the years. I especially hope that this will also mean that you now actually HIT what you aim at when you lean around a corner or from behind a tree.

It pisses me off no end that you're carefully maneuvering your way around a corner, have your target in your sights, fire, and then a decal appears in fucking open air right in front of your barrel, because the game apparently feels that that corner actually extends three more inches beyond where the texture ends.

I'm glad it's finally getting rid of.

Creston