# Woah! Doom 3 received an 8.5 on Gamespot
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452
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**Created:** [August 5, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452 "2004-08-05T16:24:53Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/1 "2004-08-05T16:24:53Z")
Like the subject says, Doom 3 got a score of 8.5 by the reviewer at gamespot: [http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/doom3/review.html](http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/doom3/review.html)
Isn’t that a bit low considering similar games such as Far Cry, Halo (for the PC), UT, Undying, etc. got higher scores?
[size=1] **EDIT: The video review found in a link toward the bottom of the review page is good!** [/size]
:battery:
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### Author:  [@grinch](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grinch)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/2 "2004-08-05T16:27:31Z")
I see what your saying kirupa,
but I never really rely on this reviews, this game is totally awsome, and deservers a 10 out of 10 by me 😛
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### Author:  [@berkoWitZ](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/berkoWitZ)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/3 "2004-08-05T17:38:07Z")
basically it´s a technical masterpiece with the good old gameplay
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### Author:  [@grinch](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grinch)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/4 "2004-08-05T17:42:49Z")
Have you play it Berko?
It really scares me so much that I jump in my seat. Especially when your in the bathroom, and that huge monster comes out…
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### Author:  [@berkoWitZ](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/berkoWitZ)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/5 "2004-08-05T17:51:43Z")
shhhhhhh! don spoil the fun! I want to jump of my seat 😃 no I havent played it as u can see… ☹
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### Author:  [@pratik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pratik)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/6 "2004-08-05T19:11:19Z")
> [@berkoWitZ](#):
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> shhhhhhh! don spoil the fun! I want to jump of my seat 😃 no I havent played it as u can see… ☹
yo 👁
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### Author:  [@andr\_in](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andr_in)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/7 "2004-08-05T19:13:39Z")
8.5 yeah kinda low… considering that Tony Hawk’s pro Skater 3 ( I think it was 3) got 10
Still a great game… I was supposed to get my new computer weeks ago… still waiting … can’t play it until I get it
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### Author:  [@Disco\_Stu1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Disco_Stu1)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/8 "2004-08-05T19:57:44Z")
Doom 3 to Tony Hawk 3 is like a Mortons steak to a 99 cent McDonalds Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Gamespot has given some crappy games a higher rating than Doom? Whatever.
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### Author:  [@Mik3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mik3)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/9 "2004-08-05T20:31:33Z")
Man, I bought the game and my video card is only 32 Mb. (That’s why I have another thread asking about Shared Memory.) Guess I have to wait unti I save up some money for a gaming desktop.
But my review is:
The menus (before the 3d part of the game) are really cool! :sure:
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### Author:  [@berkoWitZ](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/berkoWitZ)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/10 "2004-08-05T20:50:32Z")
> [@Syko](#):
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> 8.5 yeah kinda low… considering that Tony Hawk’s pro Skater 3 ( I think it was 3) got 10
mmmmm, that makes no sense :sure:
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### Author:  [@sirtimbly](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sirtimbly)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/11 "2004-08-05T20:51:11Z")
I’m not even going to consider buying it, I barely squeeze in under the minimum requirements with a Radeon 8500 AiW
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### Author:  [@thoriphes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thoriphes)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/12 "2004-08-06T14:58:49Z")
I read some of the user reviews. My take on it is that it’s your ordinary derivative FPS. The game is still visually pleasing, granted you can play it. Today I actually held the box, reading the specs and wondered if it was worth purchasing. I put it back down and decided to wait for the demo, which should be coming out very soon, to see how my system would perform under it.
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### Author:  [@signifer123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/signifer123)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/13 "2004-08-06T15:25:25Z")
yah there was one free fps which looked good becuase it was 96k and looked really good but you need one of thopse 300$ graphics cards to play it
☹
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### Author:  [@Tuna](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tuna)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/14 "2004-08-09T00:42:42Z")
Correct me if im wrong, but isn’t that just the game reviewers opinon? I think the best idea is to either buy it or ask people who have it what they think. Doom has always been a great game, and 3 looks like the best one yet.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/15 "2004-08-09T00:58:07Z")
The reviewer does make some good points, but yeah - normal users have a much different opinion on it. I am not sure how it scored so low on sound. I figured that the sound was one of its good parts.
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### Author:  [@Behemoth\_Dan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Behemoth_Dan)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/16 "2004-08-09T04:36:09Z")
Sound is one of it’s good points. I totally agree. But also remember, there is not one guy giving reviews for every game. Maybe this reviewer would have given Tony Hawk a lower score. Props to him for telling it how he saw t, rather than just throwing out a 10 because everyone else says so. His points are well justified. I mean, imagine if the AI acted how he imagined it. Woo!
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### Author:  [@Disco\_Stu1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Disco_Stu1)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/17 "2004-08-09T06:01:35Z")
Yea. Take it with a grain of salt. Reviewers give bad games good reviews and good games bad reviews sometimes. It’s all personal opinion. I love DOOM 3’s sound. And the gameplay actually had some cool story archs that you get to choose. It’s not all just crazy shooting. Just 70%. 😃
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### Author:  [@andr\_in](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andr_in)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/18 "2004-08-09T06:38:58Z")
> [@berkoWitZ](#):
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> mmmmm, that makes no sense :sure:
neither does this :sure:
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### Author:  [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/19 "2004-08-09T14:59:48Z")
> [@kirupa](#):
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> [size=1] **EDIT: The video review found in a link toward the bottom of the review page is good!** [/size]
Indeed it is! I didn’t know they had these free over at Gamespot… As far as I remember, you can’t view the IGN ones without being a subscriber.
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### Author:  [@alzor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alzor)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/woah-doom-3-received-an-8-5-on-gamespot/118452/20 "2004-08-09T15:15:00Z")
Im sure it’s a technical masterpiece the dudes who programmed wolfenstein/doom came up with the whole idea of fps… and doom just never ever gets old. I remember a while back gamepro rated one of the armymen games pretty low, I ended up playing it all night. dont listen to the magazines.
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