I also have to agree with the consensus that Theif3/DeusEx lighting looks much more interesting. There are a very limited set of lights in doom3 that are really active, the rest rely on standard lightmaps.
Theif 3 looks much better because the levels are much more interesting and visually stimulating and the realtime lighting compliments it nicely.
Doom3 tries to utilize cheap thrills as its tension-builder, but this only works successfully a handful of times. 8-10 hours of cheap thrills makes this tech demo ring hollow.