Reality Factory

Well I rented it for Xbox and I can't say I've ever been unhappy with an ID game untill now. The PDA thing is neat untill a few levels later you get tired of reading text, and listening to stupid audio reports which may or may not have anything of use in them.

Also it doesn't take long before you get the scoop that everytime you pick up something an evil monster appears. Oh look armor *pickup* oh no the lights go out and monsters appear! The first time it's scary after that it's expected.
The slow moving zombies are more of a shock than anything for the first few times. Then you learn the routine and don't need the flashlight anymore. Oh look a dimly lit room what a dark spot over there in the corer...
Bang! *crosshair flashes red* bang bang bang...spooky.

I like the Turkey punching game though. Although if someone paid $50 for this game I'd say they are the turkey getting punched. Graphics are groovy even on the Xbox. One of the few games that passes the stop and look around test. Thats where you stop and carefully examine things to see how well done they are that most people don't notice because they are actually playin the game.

The whole flashlight - weapon switching isn't as bad as all the other reviews I read made it out to be. It's fast and easy. Flashlight "Oh look a zombie!" *click* bang bang he dies. The only thing that does get your pulse up is the fact that enemies can magically appear out of nowhere anywhere. So that room you just cleared is never clear so it does have that wath your back paranoia going on.

A note on weapons while pretty decent the shotgun is the slowest pumping shotgun I have ever seen in my life. There is like a 2 second delay between firing and being able to fire again.

On a bad note none of the weapons seem to have a secondary fire mode. Aside from the flashlight which not only shines but you can whack monsters with it too. Which is about all it takes to down the zombies. Just whack them twice and then fall over.

Also the worst thing is the lack of an autosave feature. Normally on a console it autosaves at the beginning of each level. Not for this port it doesn't. When I finally did die I then learned that I had to restart all over because it hadnt saved the game AT ALL!

Also enemies don't miss in this game. When they shoot they hit you except for the demons guys who pop out f nowhere. Their fireballs move slow enough you can dodge them with ease. Also enemies don't shoot when getting shot either. This makes taking out possesed marines with assault rifles really easy with the pistol. Since you find tons of ammo for it and it shoots just fast enough to not allow them to shoot back.

What else can I say... A decent rental I guess at it does cure the boredom and filled that desire to at least play the game. Not a bad game but I think it was designed more to sell a game engine than the game itself.

I played the pc demo and from i saw it looks great. Okay now that i got that out of the way i can list all the bad stuff. Just kidding i dont feel like a making a list that long. The levels are better designed than the old ones i think. Back then levels names didnt mean they had the stuff they were supposed to. Also the 3d models allow for stuff to jump out from behind tanks and machinery instead of coming out from hidden rooms. But i read everywhere that it gets old midway through the game. Horror games are like horror movies dont keep scaring the person otherwise they can predict the movie or in this case the game. I was playin classic doom the other day and i turn around and boom a pinky demon. I was surprised then mad for letting that happen to myself.

Your probably right. they made the engine to sell it and the game is the demo of what is possible but we dont know for sure. But it seems that way.

I didnt care for their decision about coop. I would have liked to play through the actual story with another person not new levels and some of the other ones.

I really enjoyed Doom3 and I too payed $50 bucks.... I think it was a fun game and very scary in the beginning... the flashlight thing was overblown as you stated because you can switch between the gun and flashlight very quickly... I don't it's the best ID game but it wasn't bad by any means... It's also a damn pretty game.... but to be honest I won't play again... But I recently replayed unreal II which I really like... anyways... I'm getting cheap in my old age... doom3 will probably be my last $50 game... I just going to wait till games drop into my price range...

I picked up "chronicles of riddick" for $30. The Riddick game is a lot a fun... you guys should pick up a copy... The only problem is that the game is little short but for me that's fine since I don't have the same amount of time to play games as I used to...

I also picked up"Beyond good and Evil" for $10 and the "Incredible Hulk" for $5 at "half-priced books" book store... I'll probably pick up "Far Cry" now that it's about $20...

I own and loved the Chronicles of Riddick game for Xbox. One of the biggest things I liked about it was the hand to hand combat system. Plus the switch between more talk/puzzle levels and just pure action levels.

I also thought the stealth element was really well done. I actually played the game more than twice to beat it on both the highest difficulties and to collect all the cigarette packs. To include spending no telling how mch time catching moths. lol.

The characters I thought in the game also felt very authentic. Not a bunch of people standing or sitting around. Inmates doing push-ups, or smoking. Voices were good as well I liked how they taunted you pretty endlessly. Just had lots of elements your typical FPS game doesn't normally have.

Doom III isn't a bad game by far it just gets stale after awhile. Like I haven't even found the rocket launcher, and I've already gotten the BFG. Do I care? No because once you get the chainsaw it minces pretty much anything. If you can stand to walk around listening to it run constantly. But a fun toy anyway I haven't found anything it doesn't chew to bits in short order.
I use other weapons now just to break up the monotony of using the chainsaw all the time. Also negates the flashlight because you can pretty much just run through dark places with it.