VGA Roundup Vol.2
7. Doom 3
A massive demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporations’ (UAC) Mars Research Facility leaving only chaos and horror in its wake. As one of the few survivors, you struggle with shock and fear as you fight your way to Hell and back, in an epic clash against pure evil.
Activision made it's miracle again with Doom 3 which is said to be the best-looking game ever, thanks to the brand-new OpenGL graphics engine used to generate its convincingly lifelike, densely atmospheric, and surprisingly expansive environments. If you are a fan of the previous Doom games then you will get many flashbacks with this revision, since you will find reimagined versions of almost every monster from both Doom and Doom II.
To measure performance on the game we used the time demo demo1 command from the console (Alt+Ctrl+~).
Enabling the high quality setting and executing the time demo demo1 command twice for each resolution, we witnessed the following:
First, without the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering settings enabled, we got the following results:
Nvidia based chipset cards have slightly better FPS as opposed to ATI based cards with this game. This time, the 6800GT rules with the X850XT close behind.
As we can see, Doom3 is not a game to play unless you have a powerful graphics card.