Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Doom

If a game has a mature rating, be afraid to play. Especially a game in which the gamer has only a torchlight worth of light in massive cathedrals of darkness. And even worse, if on sighting the ghoul you press the mouse with all your might, it results in a weak swing of the flashlight, while the ghoul takes away mounds of your avatars flesh and all your sense of confidence with it. You need to have the presence of mind to change to a weapon to blow the ghoul away, but as a result lose the little light that the flashlight provided. And the darkness envelopes you.

Dying a trillion times really affects the spirit. Especially when the process of dying is revealed as a growing peripheral hemorrhage that grows to envelope the screen, which actually pulsates like as if you busted an artery. Doom 3 for you folks.

Any more realistic and nobody will buy their game.

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