"One thing you’ll quickly notice when you start up Doom 3 for the first time is that the pacing is rather… “slow” for an Id game — at times anyway. The pacing is slow in order to build the “mood” for the game while you’re simply walking down a hallway; but once you hit a “choking point,” where a bunch of enemies were lurking and waiting for your arrival, the game speeds up into the fast-paced action and violent mayhem you’d expect from an Id game.

Speaking of “mood,” let me say this: Doom 3 has the makings to be a really scary game. And I’m not talking cheesy scares like ugly monsters jumping through windows and surprising you, I’m talking the kind of scary where you’ll end up having nightmares after playing this game. The mood for each and every map is clearly intended to scare the living daylights out of you, even if no monster is in the vicinity."