Thursday, April 07, 2005

Death Clock and Doom 3

Did you know that being pessimistic takes 20 years off of your life expectancy? 20 YEARS! Being a smoker doesn't even take that many years off! Of course, this is according to the Death Clock, and we all know how reliable that is.

Meanwhile, I finally got Doom 3 last night. I went to the store, just to kill time and see if maybe they had the collector's edition, and of course, they did.

I had to live two days without the game, but it was well worth
it. Not only is the game a marvel to look at, it's classic Doom
all the way. Some may say that Doom is too primitive in today's
world of FPS games, but I'm a bit of a traditionalist. Doom
really started the FPS genre, and I'm glad that it has stayed close to
it's roots. It's your basic run and gun kind of a game, nothing
too complex. But the best part is... it's scary as Hell,
literally.



Picture if you will: You walk into a well lit room.
Everything seems fine, no harm will come to you... then, all of a
sudden, the lights go out. You whip out your flashlight just to
see what may be lurking in the dark. You can't see anything, but
you can hear everything. You turn quickly, just to have your face
slashed off by a spawn a Satan. You put your flashlight away,
revealing the darkness again, pull out your gun, and fire away.
The lights come back on, and you are standing over the corpse of said
spawn. That, ladies and gentleman, is Doom 3. God I love it.

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