Thankfully the craze for simple PC ports masquerading as 'HD remasters' appears to be over, but it's gratifying that in bringing Doom 3 to console, id has put the work in here. In the PC version, the changes are a mixed bag, but on console, the choices seem fitting. The lighting has been revamped, making the BFG Edition brighter and easier to track with the display at range, field of view has been tweaked with 16:9 screens in mind, while certain elements of the artwork have been embellished to reduce some of the more glaring, lower-quality texture work. An aesthetic originally designed around a desktop environment with the screen directly in front of the player has been tuned to better suit a living room environment.

While some might argue that the PC version is somewhat superfluous when stacked up against eight years' worth of community-driven mods, on console the BFG Edition makes a lot more sense and in the hands of Carmack and company, the result is a game that's a cut above the typical HD remaster.įor a start, some thought has been given to the way in which Doom 3 will be played on console. Doom 3: BFG Edition is best described as the net result of John Carmack and id Software taking on an HD remastering project, because this new release is effectively a 720p console revamp of a 2004 PC game originally designed with a 640x480 resolution in mind.

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