Doom 3
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The box art for Doom 3 displays a Hell-Knight against the background of a pentagram.
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| Developer(s) | id Software |
| Publisher(s) |
Activision Aspyr Media (Mac OS X) |
| Distributor(s) | Activision Publishing, Inc. |
| Director(s) | Tim Willits |
| Designer(s) | Tim Willits Mal Blackwell |
| Programmer(s) |
John Carmack Robert A. Duffy |
| Artist(s) |
Adrian Carmack Kevin Cloud Kenneth Scott |
| Writer(s) | Matthew J. Costello |
| Composer(s) |
Chris Vrenna Clint Walsh |
| Series | Doom |
| Engine | id Tech 4 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows Linux Mac OS X Xbox |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Publication | Score | |
| PC | Xbox | |
| 1UP.com | B+ | A |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 | |
| GameSpot | 8.5/10 | 8.6/10 |
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| GameTrailers | 9.0/10 | |
| IGN | 8.9/10 | 9.3 |
| PC Gamer (UK) | 90% | |
| PC Gamer (US) | 94% | |
| Aggregate scores | ||
| GameRankings | 86.6% | 87.7% |
| Metacritic | 87 | 88 |
| Awards | |
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| Publication | Award |
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GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2004: Best Graphics (Technical) |
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Golden Joystick Awards 2004: PC Game of the Year, Ultimate Game of the Year |
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Doom 3 (stylized as DOOM3) is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac OS X. Developer Vicarious Visions ported the game to the Xbox console (now backwards compatible to the Xbox 360), releasing it on April 3, 2005. British developers Splash Damage also assisted in design for the multiplayer elements of the game.
The game is a reboot of id Software's Doom franchise. Doom 3 is set in 2145 on Mars, where a military-industrial conglomerate has set up a scientific research facility to research into fields such as teleportation, biological research and advanced weapons design. However, the teleportation experiments inadvertently open a gateway to Hell, resulting in a catastrophic invasion by demons. The player, an anonymous space marine, must fight through the base and find a way to stop the demons attacking Earth.Doom 3 features an award-winning game engine, id Tech 4, which has since been licensed out to other developers, and later released under the GNU General Public License in November 2011.
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