Doom 3 or Half life 2?
Someone said apples and oranges earlier- I would have to agree. They both are extremely gorgeous games and are fun to play. If you like apples and oranges, get both. They both come up short in some areas. Doom 3 has a dark atmosphere, sometimes TOO dark to kill something. Doom 3 was missing something in the physics department. You could knock down a trash can thats about it. All those pretty graphics, and you couldn't do much with it, i want to see some steel flyin around, some concrete smashin (Red Faction anyone?) "Geomod technology" from red faction was something that developers should expand upon. Doom 3 is nothing new in the series but hey, if it aint broke don't fix it. Too bad it wasn't a duke nukem game, nothing better than one liners after blowing up an alien. Other than that, Doom was awesome!
Half life 2, superb Game. Doesn't require much thinking. Storyline is okay, what little is coherent that is, but it doesn't take away from the fun and the overall experience. My gripe with this game is that i haven't been able to pick up people with the gravity gun! Fun to use but come on i want to fling some bodies on some barrels (Psyops anyone?) If you play psyops for ps2 or pc if its out, THATS the way you use a physics engine! You get to toss bodies and pick up objects with your telekenisis, one of a few other mind powers you get. I suggest everyone play it unless you hate 3rd person games.
Most people's gripes for Doom 3 are about sytem requirements. If you lower the quality to medium you can beef up the resolution, unless your eyes are ulrta good you won't notice much difference. My system runs it on the ultra quality with 1280*1024 on an msi geforceFX 5950, member those? With doom 3 it also helps if you've got more ram. I noticed the game ran much smoother when i upgraded to 1.5gigs of ram rather than the 1 gig i had.
Anyway i have both games, they are both awesome and offer different ways to entertain someone. Here's a piece of advice, don't buy into hype. Play the game as if you read nothing about it. If its fun then who cares if it WAS going to have beads of sweat close up lol, s'all about the action! Besides.....Metal Gear Solid 3 is the better game!