Doom3: Summer 2004 Shipment Confirmed

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Activision, Inc. confirmed today that id Software's highly anticipated DOOM 3™, will be released this summer for the PC. The latest installment in one of the most successful franchises in gaming history, DOOM 3 utilizes id's revolutionary new 3D graphics engine to draw players into the most frightening and gripping gaming experience ever created.

"DOOM 3 is the most anticipated PC game of the year and fans around the world are eagerly awaiting its release," Ron Doonink, CEO, Activision Publishing. "Id is delivering the most compelling horror gaming experience to date, so get ready for DOOM."

"This summer we're sending game fans on a first-class trip to Mars -- with a layover in Hell," said Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software. "DOOM 3 is coming to the PC and delivering the most atmospheric, terrifying and visually mind-blowing gaming experience ever conceived."

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News source: Yahoo! Finance

(3 replies) #1 Lingwo on 11 May 2004 - 18:28

wooo... at first i wasn't too impressed but last few screenshots have interested me. I think we need an actual scary FPS

#1.1 GibMonkey on 11 May 2004 - 18:34

Do we mean summer as in 4 seasons or the 'fiscal' summer?

If they mean fiscal, we may not see this until the end of September. Sadness.

#1.2 Surr3al on 11 May 2004 - 19:17

I think they mean "summer" as in "whenever we feel damn ready, but we'll say summer just in case we happen to complete it then." :p

#1.3 elliot on 11 May 2004 - 20:01

where can i find the latest screenshots?

(3 replies) #2 99 to Life on 11 May 2004 - 18:37

it'll be out next month

#2.1 GibMonkey on 11 May 2004 - 18:50

Not that you have a shred of anything but online vendors shipdates to back up that statement. Unless, of course, you happen to be on id's payroll.

Not gonna hold my breath on that one. Nice optimism though! Keep it up!

#2.2 sheer on 11 May 2004 - 18:57

Funnily enough I've been thinking before June 30 for sometime now. This is an nZone featured game and new nVidia hardware hits the shelves in June, so the timing seems about right. And with id not at E3 themselves this year, they're obviously busy doing something...

#2.3 99 to Life on 11 May 2004 - 19:23

even my Popular Science magazine says it'll scare your pants off once it hits store shelves next month and I've been thinking of june for a while too and now the confirmation...it all adds up nicely.

#3 alister on 11 May 2004 - 18:58

I wonder how many CD's this will be. I hope that they release a DVD version of this.

Alister

#4 aoeu on 11 May 2004 - 19:23

I wouldn't doubt it'll get delayed *yet* again.

Watch my prediction come true.

(1 reply) #5 Varsity on 11 May 2004 - 19:28

At least we won't be forced to play the horrid X-Box version. They made it look like crap and it STILL can't run decently, even for the E3 trailer.

#5.1 ubugmetoo on 11 May 2004 - 23:21

Well they tried to fit a big game into 64mb of ram. I surprised it even ran at all.

#6 thenay on 11 May 2004 - 19:29

yay, finally one of the long awaited games is coming out!

#7 chorpeac on 11 May 2004 - 19:44

I'll believe it when I see it on the shelves....

(1 reply) #8 INFERNO2k on 11 May 2004 - 20:22

I just hope I can run it.

#8.1 Apollo on 11 May 2004 - 21:21

that's what i'm worried about... running it "decently"

#9 Rishdeep on 11 May 2004 - 20:31

Summer eh? So that'd be ANY time from early June to late August...assuming of course it's not delayed again.

(1 reply) #10 ooops on 11 May 2004 - 20:52

All I know is that we'll see Soldier of Fortune 7 before DOOM3 or Half-Life 2 make it out. LOL

#10.1 99 to Life on 12 May 2004 - 00:16

I bet you we'll see it soon as in next month

#11 csabo2 on 11 May 2004 - 21:15

yeah an fps that scares the **** out of you is rare im looking forward to this

#12 nic on 11 May 2004 - 21:20

shoot, i hope it will run decent on my system. Really looking forward to this one. I hope it is released in the first half of the summer, because the second half I have summer school and I don't want to flunk out of that.

(1 reply) #13 stezo2k on 11 May 2004 - 21:39

any word on the minimum specs, hopefully my old gf3 128mb should work it ok, far cry works alright thank god

#13.1 Mav Phoenix on 12 May 2004 - 02:04

Doubtful, I don't even think my GF4 Ti-4600 will run it well.

#14 HappyCar on 11 May 2004 - 21:54

well that would be nice for my birthday

#15 chorpeac on 11 May 2004 - 22:05

I read in the popular science about it, and they were talking PCI Express, and the newest Pentium chips.....It should scale down well though.

#16 Gary_Player on 12 May 2004 - 00:12

ARG! I want it!

#17 JonathanVP on 12 May 2004 - 02:08

Damn!!! Can't wait! By that time, I would have upgraded my computer to a Pentium4, 3.40 Ghz, with 2 gig of RAM and the ATI Radeon X800 video card...woo hoo!!

#18 donachello on 13 May 2004 - 09:39

I have been a hardcore gamer for many years now and I have never seen so many people getting creamed over the anticipated release of Doom3. I like the rest of the gaming population cannot wait for this to be released... I have played on the beta version of Doom3, which was leaked a couple of weeks ago. Although you have to bind your own keys it's quite a frightening game to play it made me jump in a few places and have not experienced this since Half Life back in 1998...

I just hope ID Software does not mess Activision about again because they lost a lot of money when ID Software said they were going to release this last year...?

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