You play as somebody in this group of people(I do not know who because the story ain't great) and you are on mars, yeah that's right, MARS, and an infestation of demons are taking over the place you are in and you have to kill all of them. See, repitition can get anoying, just like how I kept saying over and over a bunch of times, the game is like that. Gameplay: Unlike most of my other reviews, I don't have alot to say about it.It is scary at first, but because it is the same thing over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, it stops to be fast. Other Aim-friendly games like Farpoint, Firewall: Zero Hour, and even Borderlands 2 VR feel more tailored to the limitations of PSVR, whereas Doom 3: VR Edition often forgets to accommodate those limitations at all.Overall: When you first start playing it seems to be fun, but trust me it gets old QUICK! I only played it for a couple hours because it started to get boring. Your hands are bolted to your gun at all times, and your only actions are “move,” “attack,” and occasionally “push buttons on a computer screen.” Once again, this style of play works great outside of VR, but the lack of variety in its interactions beyond this is tiring – even when your real-life hands are plastered to the Aim Controller. This happens too often, and it’s neither comfortable nor fun.Īll of these frustrations would be easier to move past if Doom 3 had more moments of VR interactivity, but its 10-hour campaign is mostly packed with fast-paced combat because that’s simply how the original was designed. As a result, it’s easy to find yourself aiming your controller directly downward and frantically holding your trigger to clear your path of enemies while skittishly darting left and right. While there’s an option to activate snap-turns and screen-blocking vignettes that cover your peripheral vision whenever you turn a corner, playing with those features turned on is an inconvenience when you’re tasked with fighting literal waves of demons spawning in every direction. There’s no option to move via teleportation, either, and doing any kind of strafing or backing up with Doom 3’s super slippery movement controls is an instant recipe for motion sickness. That sort of FPS movement feels natural with a keyboard or a gamepad, but is just plain nauseating in the PSVR headset. In later zones, swarms of bite-sized Trites, Cherubs, and Maggots – giant spiders, flying babies, and two-headed monstrosities - try to surround you in close physical proximity, which makes it paramount that you strafe around and keep your distance. Ironically, doing so worked much better with the standard DualShock 4 controller than with the Aim Controller, which isn’t nearly as comfortable held at waist-height.Īnother major issue is the way Doom 3 wants you to move during combat. This is especially apparent when comparing an NPC’s size to that of your weapons, which look huge in your hands and often block your field of view unless you’re holding your controller in your lap. It’s hard to see from outside, but in VR the disproportion between NPCs and your field of view is almost comical – like you’ve stepped into an episode of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, except the kids are face-eating demons. Meanwhile, NPCs and even the enemies you fight are irregularly scaled. Then, after holding the ‘Options’ button down and resetting the view, I’d apparently been sized down to a small child.

Even when you adjust the height settings to your real-life height, the terrain itself never feels appropriately sized to accommodate you. Right off the bat, the scale of the world around you is noticeably weird.

However, this port immediately reveals some of the key flaws of just taking a campaign that plays great in 2D and dropping it into virtual reality. Its added weight brings an extra something special to the quality of two-handed weapons in VR, and Doom 3 is the perfect game to showcase that in. Furthermore, there’s an indescribable level of satisfaction that comes with blasting a Cacodemon with a plasma rifle or sawing apart a zombie with a chainsaw when your entire Aim Controller is rumbling from top to bottom. These constant jumpscares work as well in VR in 2021 as they did on-screen in 2004. I felt a sense of tense exhilaration whenever I shined my flashlight into the dark corners of a room, often followed by a startling jolt as a demon popped out of the shadows or through a doorway at me.

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