Doom III Xbox collector set with Doom I/II ports?

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A special collector's edition of Doom III Xbox will launch this March alongside the regular version, and features ports of PC classics Ultimate Doom and Doom II with split-screen multiplayer options, according to retailers. Doom III for the Xbox will launch in the US this March 1st in regular and collector's edition sets, according to online retailers EB Games and GameStop, and retail sources in the UK speaking to Eurogamer this lunchtime have indicated that the situation will be much the same here.

News source: Eurogamer.net

What's New in This Release:

· Added: Support for different/newer types of 'structure protection'
· Added: Support for NEC (new style), Plextor and AOpen (use RICOH tab)
· Bitsetting
· Added: Option to not display the dialog box about loading the MDS and
· not the ISO
· Added: Support for running on multimonitor displays
· Changed: Burn engine to relieve stress (caused by a fast executing
· 'While' loop) on the I/O subsystem when doing the 'Lead-In' stage of the
· burn
· Changed: Window snapping so that it snaps on the middle of the screen
· and not just at the edges
· Changed: 'SetWriteParameters' function to attempt to use the drive
· specified 'link size'. Also changed to hopefully fix some total failures in
· setting the parameters on certain drives
· Changed: Write retries have been reintroduce (old default = 0, new =
· 20)
· Changed: Drag + Drop code enabled / disabled at different times to
· help prevent some subclassing problems due to ThemeManager - could cause
· access violations on some PCs when the app is closed
· Changed: Added another URL to the 'check for program update' code
· Changed: Behaviour of 'Browse' dialog for ISO Write source files. It
· will now select the nearest folder to the one last selected
· Changed: volume label change code to support split image where the
· backup volume descriptor is at the end of the disc
· Fixed: A bug in the 'check for program update' code that could mean 1
· failure causes all the retries to fail too
· Fixed: UDF volume label changing code to recalculate descriptor CRC +
· checksum
· Fixed: Major slow down on some 'structure protected' discs
· Fixed: A problem with some DVDRAM discs, reading them to images and
· trying to change the volume label

#1 RanCorX2 on 05 Jan 2005 - 18:26

sounds cool if true

#2 SecretAgentMan on 05 Jan 2005 - 18:34

Nice. I hope it will be worth the wait.

#3 Mx² on 05 Jan 2005 - 19:06

Would be cool if it did happen.

#4 disturb3d on 05 Jan 2005 - 19:44

so when the hell is ressurection of evil coming then??

#5 nic on 05 Jan 2005 - 20:05

you know...i've been pretty impressed with what games I've seen on the X-Box in the past couple of months. It is interesting how old this system is, and how well the games stack up against PC titles that require new hardware. I'm very interested in seeing how the X-Box version of Doom 3 compares w/ the PC one.

(2 replies) #6 Spartan_X on 05 Jan 2005 - 21:12

old news...

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/7415/DOOM-3-Dated-Collectors-Edition-Revealed/

and yes, it's true it will include Doom I and II...

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/255324.asp

QUOTE

Exclusive Collector’s Edition includes:
•Full versions of the original ULTIMATE DOOM and DOOM II. With single player or deathmatch and co-op in 2-4 player split-screen modes.
•G4: VIDEO GAME TV “Icons” feature: “Behind the scenes of DOOM 3”
•Interviews with the id Software team
•Concept art: storyboard and sketch gallery

#6.1 jimmm33 on 05 Jan 2005 - 22:48

They ruined the collectors edition by adding G4 content!

#6.2 iczman on 07 Jan 2005 - 16:47

someone please slap him for saying old news

(2 replies) #7 kingbob on 05 Jan 2005 - 21:36

So PC users don't get this?

#7.1 ABC½ on 05 Jan 2005 - 21:54

They prolly will, ID is so money ogre!

ABC and a half!

#7.2 nic on 05 Jan 2005 - 22:20

ummm...PC users already got Doom 1 and 2 many years ago. 3rd party engine/modfications really add new light (litterally) to the game. Check it out if you have some of you old WAD files around

(1 reply) #8 jivemastert on 05 Jan 2005 - 21:51

i would play doom I or II online if they made that... that would be awesome.

#8.1 nic on 05 Jan 2005 - 22:19

check out the 3rd party modified doom engines jDoom and Doom Legacy. They offer TCP/IP play, but I haven't tried it over the internet yet.

(5 replies) #9 JSemple3 on 06 Jan 2005 - 01:43

Wasn't doom III for the PC a pile of monkey's crap (so I heard a lot of people saying) IF they bring out the doom 3 collector's edition for the PC I MAY get it not until then though.

#9.1 MegaManXcalibur on 06 Jan 2005 - 05:09

A lot of people say Doom 3 is bad because of how dark the game is (you often find yourself using the flashlight). But in all honesty it was done to add a horror effect to the game, and it really did help with the creepy "I'm going to die" atmosphere that Doom 3 tried (and suceeded) to create. The only thing bad about this game in my opinion is that it ends way sooner then I would have liked.

#9.2 shao on 06 Jan 2005 - 13:16

in some respects doom3 was much better than alot of people expected.. it ran on more peoples' pc's than expected, and looked great.
but in others it was still a bad game. it was very repetitive, but then, so were the originals. Graphically people bashed it because a lot of people though everything looked overly shiney.

generally it's good to see a game developer realising last minute that a port was underperforming, and holding it back for several months to refine it and make it a more perfect game, like id has done with the xbox port.

#9.3 Skyfrog on 07 Jan 2005 - 01:14

I loved the first few levels and the darkness certainly added a sense of fear, but soon it became boring and the darkness became annoying. You're just going through the game killing the same monsters over and over, crawling through dark hallways that look the same as the ones in every previous level. At least near the end you got to see some new areas but the gameplay was the same from start to finish. Find the PDA, open the door, kill the monster, rinse and repeat. As for the graphics it just looked like everything had a layer of plastic wrap on it, at least what you could see. Just my opinions of course but I was very disappointed with this game.

#9.4 nookadum on 08 Jan 2005 - 10:52

Well, everything what Skyfrog said could be said about HL2, but the new areas came out earlier in the game (the water level, the buggy, and the crane).

Both HL2 and Doom 3 cancel each other out. It always comes down to that.

#9.5 Skyfrog on 09 Jan 2005 - 04:03

Sorry but I don't think Doom 3 is even in the same ballpark as Half-Life 2. Doom 3 had basically two areas, dark hallways and hell. Half-Life 2 was FAR more diverse as far as levels (City 17, the countryside, Ravenholm, etc) and things to do. It had a much better storyline also, and I found it very interesting from start to finish. With Doom 3 I was bored to death most of the time. Not to mention the physics; in HL2 you could interract with practically everything. Throw in the gravity gun and it's even better. With Doom 3 you couldn't break or pick up a single thing other than those stupid PDAs. As far as graphics I think Half-Life 2 looked a lot better, while Doom 3 was nothing more than a plastic coated tech demo. Just my opinion but I don't think you can even compare the two.

(5 replies) #10 ThunderRiver on 06 Jan 2005 - 02:01

and I guess there is no PS2 version of it. That's okay. I don't really think highly of my PS2.

#10.1 ragn4rokk 2.0 on 06 Jan 2005 - 03:57

Imagine how much they'd need to scale back to get it to run on Playstation.

#10.2 shao on 06 Jan 2005 - 13:21

it'd never be ported on to the ps2.. it can't do the per pixel lighting and shading required to create the atmosphere that doom3 is built around. add to the that the memory available for texturing.. it'd look awful.

but then all ps2 owners are used to awful looking games, so would probably buy bucketloads of the game.

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#10.3 rIaHc3 on 06 Jan 2005 - 14:35

It is technically not possible...........to my knowledge at least...

#10.4 Black Raven on 07 Jan 2005 - 01:51

Technically its possible. I remeber an article back a while ago saying they got doom 3 to run on an old voodoo card.

#10.5 nookadum on 08 Jan 2005 - 10:55

Sure, the PS2 has worse graphics than the XBox (not by much, mind you), but at least the games have better gameplay than most on the XBox.

(2 replies) #11 AethylFilth on 06 Jan 2005 - 15:29

just ntoe to people; if a news item is old, don't make a post just to say that,

#11.1 episode on 06 Jan 2005 - 21:33

No one said it was old ...

#11.2 Roy on 07 Jan 2005 - 08:21

Actually, someone did. (#6)

#12 nerokill on 08 Jan 2005 - 11:40

Yeah this is old news its been on www.xbox-network.co.uk for bit they also have spotted it on a web site for sell

#13 dvds_ect on 10 Jan 2005 - 18:12

Nice!

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