"When dealing with alien demons, Grimm is forced to cross paths with the organization responsible for his parents' deaths. In the game, the story is set at a Mars space station, where an aerospace conglom is conducting secret experiments when something unleashes a demonic force that threatens to overtake the facility."

"Aside from your weapons and your wits, one of the most important assets in DOOM3 is your PDA (Personal Data Assistant), which stores vital information that you’ll need to get through the game. You can review your current objectives and read a brief summary of any weapons you are carrying, and pick up someone else’s PDA and download its information into yours—E-Mail, video discs (which you can also find lying around), audio logs, access codes to secured storage lockers containing Med Kits, armor, ammo and occasionally weapons. Most important, you can update your security clearance to unlock doors to previously inaccessible areas of the base.

The E-Mails and audio logs fill you in on the events that led up to the present catastrophe before your arrival on Mars, and does a nice job of fleshing out DOOM3’s storyline. The video discs are mostly slick UAC "infomercials," although you may occasionally run across that may prove useful."

"Change in directors will have no effect on the film's production schedule, with principal photography skedded for a mid-October start.

A former cinematographer on pics like "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Thirteen Days," Bartkowiak's recent helming credits include "Exit Wounds" and "Romeo Must Die"

"Chief among those things are building orbital rocket ships and working on id's next game. Lately, though, he's found his interest in rocket ships surpassing his interest in coding video games. He's definitely on board for one more title, but Carmack's future as a video game programmer is growing increasingly hazy.

"I wouldn't hazard to look too far ahead," he said. "I'm definitely going to see through this round of rendering work. I wouldn't make any promises beyond that."

"The other cool thing was the PDA. All FPS games have little clues and such that you can access; locker codes, door codes, access points, useless bits of information that are just plain entertaining for a while and then turn to just plain annoying. DoomIII was no exception. The PDA is your best friend at times. Often you would come across a dead or dying NPC and his PDA would be lying there for you to download the info off of. There were audio logs the NPC¿s had made and security access codes and e-mails from other NPC¿s. I quite liked the way these were done; the emails often included spam and useless (to the game anyways) letters from home, but often they had little nuggets of information buried in there."

"Environments are stunningly created as well, with blood soaked hallways, demonic symbols, and even the occasional scientist murder scene as you walk down an office corridor. Bosses are huge, viscous, and stacked with eye-popping goodness. The environments offer little interactivity however. You can knock over certain boxes and use certain control panels, but you can't damage most objects you come across, nor manipulate them in any way. Kind of disappointing, I was looking forward to blowing up more stuff and breaking some glass!"

"What have you built for Doom3 in LightWave?

I've built some of everything in the game, whether it be a monster, a wall texture, a model, etc. I was mostly responsible for texture sets and map object models; whether they be metal wall panels, floor panels, lights, engines, machinery, hoses, pipes, guns, soda cans, water fountains, rock walls, hell-flesh, etc.

With Doom, everything in the entire game has had to be modelled because we're using the new technology where everything is rendered from a high polygon mesh and then applied as bump-mapping onto a low poly surface, so we've got an enormous pile of very high poly meshes for this game."

"The goal of last man standing is to utilize the most intriguing elements of the Doom 3 single-player campaign and incorporate them into a simple, fresh, and fun coop multiplayer experience. The basic goal of every map is to kill as many monsters as you can, and remain the last marine standing at the end of a match. Score will be calculated based on kills and time survived. Marines can also partner up to increase their chances of survival."

"The monsters keep coming, and the bullets keep flying. Let the terror begin..."

"GD: Since Doom 3 is a retelling of the original, will the script focus more on the update than the original?

TH: We didn't tie the script to the specific story in the game. There are lots of similarities, but there are many things that are different in a way that's not inconsistent with what we've done in the games. I believe that fans will find the story in the movie fresh and exciting, but still very much DOOM."

"Before showing you the results of our tests, let¿s first discuss the uses the developers of the game had put the CPU to. So, from the numerous interviews of John Carmack, id Software¿s Technical Director, at various Internet sites it seems that skinning and shadows are the CPU¿s main responsibility in Doom 3. That is, the CPU calculates the positions of the characters¿ ¿skins¿ as they move between certain key points. This approach helps to animate the characters as well as render their facial expressions.

Evidently, the realization of dynamic shadows is thus better implemented using the CPU resources, too. That¿s why Doom 3 requires an assiduous CPU to run smoothly, as besides skinning and shadow generation the CPU has to solve the traditional problems of any game like monsters¿ AI, the physics of the game scene and tangent space transformations, necessary for a correct depiction of the game events on the screen."

"The Xbox has 64MB of system memory, which is more than any of the other consoles, but that's abysmally low from a PC gaming standpoint. It's a wonder to me, then, that they managed to stuff so much of the original game into the system memory at once. Levels aren't broken into tiny little pieces, the textures still looked sufficient, and just about all of the layered sound atmosphere made it into the game."