"It doesn't take more than two minutes to see how advanced DOOM 3's new graphics tech is. The intro cut-scene initially appears to be a simple computer monitor, but the camera seamlessly peels away to reveal that it's part of a larger control room. As onlookers watch your ship come in for a landing, you can see small details like a camera tracking the ship on one of the control room monitors. After your ship docks, you're finally given full control of your character, at which point you can explore the immediate area and spend a few moments gawking at all the advanced shadow and lighting effects.

As you begin to explore the Mars City Hangar, you're greeted by a soldier who informs you that you need to head to registration. Interaction with other characters or objects is pretty simple: when you put your crosshair on something you can interact with, your weapon will automatically lower so you can "use" an item or talk to a person. After meeting this soldier, you can head directly to registration (as urged by a soothing female voice over the PA system), but there are also a few other corners of the hangar to explore. Down a set of stairs is a set of crates that you can push off a ledge into a seemingly bottomless pit; when you come across situations like this for the first "