It's not as satisfying as, say, chopping zombies in half with sawblades, but it is kinda nice to turn the tables on the imps and cacodemons after all these years. By far its best feature is that it allows you to snatch fire- and plasma-balls out of the air and then launch them back at the demons that spawned them, which proves a particularly enjoyable way of dispatching hell's assorted minions. Here labelled the Grabber, Doom's version of the gravity gun works almost exactly as Half-Life 2's, though it operates much more as simply a weapon than the all-purpose tool of Valve's effort. The big news is the double-barrelled shotgun's back (whoop-de-do), and of course there's Gordon Freeman's gravity gun, presumably dropped off by the G-Man on one of his more far-flung time jumps. You've got the ill-lit corridors, the locked doors, the armour shards under the stairs, the enemies that spawn right on cue every time you hit a power switch, the frantic dashes across the Martian surface, the cute canine security droids - even the setting is indistinguishable, simply moving the action to the abandoned Site 1 of the UAC research base. The problem is, it doesn't so much extend the experience of Doom 3 as replicate it in slightly abridged form, recreating the familiar descent into hell with only a moderate reshuffle of elements.
And if anything, developer Nerve has slightly outdone id in the design stakes. Being from the id stable, it's also stunningly realised, with some of the most detailed, intense and downright creepy visuals you'll find in a videogame (or elsewhere). It fulfils its assigned role ably, extending the experience of the original game and adding a few new weapons, monsters and (much-needed) multiplayer options. To be fair, Resurrection Of Evil is not a bad expansion pack. How many times can we be expected to make the SAME journey through the SAME corridors, being attacked by the SAME sodding monsters jumping out of the SAME hidden cupboards and shooting them with the SAME weapons on the way to the SAME inevitable, infernal rendezvous in hell? It's fast becoming the Police Academy of first-person shooters (or should that be Friday The 13th?).
#DOOM 3 RESURRECTION OF EVIL SERIES#
We've cut the Doom series A LOT of slack over the years, partly because it pretty much invented the world as know it, and partly because it's always had that gorgeous technology.
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