17 Facts About Doom 3

Doom 3 is a 2004 survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

Doom 3 was originally released for Microsoft Windows on August 3,2004, adapted for Linux later that year, and ported by Aspyr Media for Mac OS X in 2005.

Doom 3 is set on Mars in 2145, where a military-industrial conglomerate has set up a scientific research facility into fields such as teleportation, biological research, and advanced weapons design.

Doom 3 is the first reboot of the Doom series, ignoring the events of the previous games.

Doom 3 utilizes the id Tech 4 game engine, which has since been licensed out to other developers, and later released under the GNU General Public License v3.

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Doom 3 was a critical and commercial success; with more than 3.

Doom 3 is a story-driven action game played from a first-person perspective.

Doom 3 was released with a four-player multiplayer element, featuring four game modes.

Kevin Cloud and Adrian Carmack, two of id Software's owners, were always strongly opposed to remaking Doom 3, believing that id was going back to the same formulas and properties too often.

Doom 3 was intended to be more storyline-focused than previous id titles, as was demonstrated by the developers' conscious effort to have more professional voice acting.

Doom 3 achieved gold status on July 14,2004 and a Mac OS X release was confirmed the next day.

Doom 3 was released in the United States on August 3,2004, and to the rest of the world on August 13.

Week before the game's release, it became known that an agreement to include EAX audio technology in Doom 3 reached by id Software and Creative Labs was heavily influenced by a software patent owned by the latter company.

Re-release of Doom 3 called Doom 3: BFG Edition, published by Bethesda Softworks, was released on October 15,2012, in Australia, October 16,2012, in North America and October 19,2012, in Europe.

Doom 3 received a favorable reception from critics, with the PC version of the game holding an 87 percent score and an 88 percent score at the review compilation sites Metacritic and GameRankings respectively.

Many reviewers noted that Doom 3 stuck with a similar "run and gun" gameplay style that was successful with its predecessors, and the game was alternately praised and criticized for this element.

Xbox version of Doom 3 received a similar level of critical support, holding a score of 88 percent on Metacritic and an 87.