I’m a frequent visitor to the Phobos Lab which is now known as PlanetDOOM and they had a pretty good article about D3 vs H2, and I was thinking about posting the entire article here, I know it’s generally not good form to do so, so I’ll leave a link to it and a little snippet. I suggest all Halflife and Doom fans read it as it’s very eye opening, especially for loyalists such as myself.
http://www.planetdoom.com/features/opinionh/hope4.shtml
Two games, each in their own time redefined what a first person shooter is. In one corner, DooM, younger generation deems it a thing of the past, a few give it respect, but it’s the game that invented the genre in its gory blessedness. Half Life, the game that redefined the first person shooter, the game younger generation mostly plays in the form of counter-strike. Two giants of different time and audience are now bound to clash in the fiercest of all arenas: the market. Yes, by an odd coincidence the sequels of these games, Doom 3 and Half Life 2 will both be coming out within half a year to each other, making them the contestants of the audience and the various press awards. Who will win this epic battle? First things first, and first things are that neither Valve nor id Software has a habit of making bad games. And this doesn’t mean that neither company made a game someone didn’t like, but they didn’t make a game that everyone hated, one of those games that is obviously plain… bad.
