Games, tokens, pizza, french fries, cake-it was as close to bliss as any 10-year-old could ask for. It was a big gathering of middle schoolers (and me) at our local Dave & Busters. And then came my godbrother’s birthday party. I saw it on store shelves, heard friends’ older siblings talk about it, and that was that.
It came out in August of 2004, but I didn’t really care. So, I just looked at it from a reserved distance. The big demon on the game’s cover and the demons that adorned a lot of the game’s marketing really, really scared me. It didn’t look like Doom 3 would, either. I’d played some of the first game on my Nintendo 64-yes, Doom 64 also rules-and it was fun enough. Even though I was young and not tapped into games media all that much, I knew that Doom 3 was going to big and was highly anticipated. Yet, we never clicked on those videos because the thumbnails looked scary. And we even saw video thumbnails for it on the gaming websites we frequented. Posters and cardboard cut-outs for it adorned the gaming sections of every store we went to. As we stepped into the world of M-rated shooters in 2004, there was also another game that often shared coverage in every gaming magazine we had. We scoured every gaming magazine for coverage on it, annoyed Circuit City employees about it, and we’d watch any videos on it that we could find. My friends and I played so much Halo and were gearing up for the release of Halo 2. My parents let me have one M-rated game- Halo. But before November I was mainly playing T-rated action games, shooters, and racing games on my Xbox. My original Xbox got the job done, but gaming on the go with two screens just blew my mind (and it still does, more on that here). I was about to finish elementary school, new consoles were right around the corner, and I was beyond excited for the launch of the Nintendo DS in November of 2004. But before I can work through the whys and hows of the claims above, I need to outline how I made my way to Doom 3 and my personal experiences with it outside of actually playing it.Ģ004 w as an interesting year. The word “Doom” will be featured a lot in this essay. It is unlike any other Doom game, and yet, in some ways, it feels like the most Doom game out of all the Doom games. Doom 3 is my favorite Doom game, but I also think it is the best game in the series.
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