Doom III E3 videos

The big news from E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is the first official showing of Doom III. The video they are showing there is available for download includes in-game/engine footage and interviews with members of id, along with a history of Doom. The in-game footage is amazing and pretty photo-realistic. The models breathe, roar and move in unbelievable detail.

The first scene is a monster pawing around a dead zombie in a bathroom. It drools, the zombie is batted around realistically, a lamp on the ceiling is swinging, so the light source and shadows are all moving…you can even see it pull the zombie apart. The amount of detail that bump-mapping brings to the skins is amazing. Veins and muscles all appear to stand out.

The video is available in QuickTime format, which runs 11 minutes, has a lower framerate and is 97MB. That one is available from ShackNews from the article: Doom III Stuff. The other video is a ‘High Quality’ version and weighs in at 90MB in WMV format (Windows Media Player movie). The framerate is much higher and if you have Windows Media Player, you should download this one. You can download that video from ShackNews as well, from the article: DOOM3 Legacy Vid High-Res.

For the faint of heart (90MB videos are big), 79 screenshots captured from the videos are available at Custom Q3. The shots show off nice stills from the movie and give you a pretty good impression of the enormous change that the Doom engine represents. It’s going to be like playing a movie.