However, this port immediately reveals some of the key flaws of just taking a campaign that plays great in 2D and dropping it into virtual reality. Its added weight brings an extra something special to the quality of two-handed weapons in VR, and Doom 3 is the perfect game to showcase that in.
Furthermore, there’s an indescribable level of satisfaction that comes with blasting a Cacodemon with a plasma rifle or sawing apart a zombie with a chainsaw when your entire Aim Controller is rumbling from top to bottom. These constant jumpscares work as well in VR in 2021 as they did on-screen in 2004. I felt a sense of tense exhilaration whenever I shined my flashlight into the dark corners of a room, often followed by a startling jolt as a demon popped out of the shadows or through a doorway at me. It runs great on a technical level, text is remarkably clear to read, and the guns are just as weighty and fun to shoot as in the original – especially when the optional Aim Controller thumps with every blast of your pump shotgun.
Packing all of its action into the relatively limited PSVR headset and making it play as well as it does with the delightful but similarly limited gun-shaped Aim Controller could not possibly have been a simple task. That’s thanks to its fantastic arsenal of guns, terrifying enemies, and engaging level design. Both its original campaign and its two DLCs are unaltered, and as a result unsuited for VR, especially when you compare them to modern PSVR shooters like Blood & Truth or The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners that show what games truly built for the medium can do.ġ7 years later and Doom 3 still stacks up as one of id Software’s greatest hits. In reality, its poorly-scaled world, the PSVR’s limitation to forward-facing play, and the slippery nature of its still relatively fast-paced combat mean Doom 3: VR Edition is more often a demon-grade headache than a joyride through hell. The recent Doom games may have hypercharged the series, but the tighter corridors and comparably slower burn of 2004’s Doom 3 seem like they’d be the more natural fit for a straight-to-VR port – at least in theory.
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