Doom 3 Preview

And third, as id's Tim Willitis explained, people who buy the very limited edition will get a huge bonus: Ultimate Doom, which is the original game with an extra episode and the full version of the original Doom 2. Players can go through the original campaign by themselves or bring in their friends for co-op or deathmatch play. Playing Doom 2 on the Xbox brought back a flood of memories and I spent over an hour just battling my way through levels that were familiar, yet new at the same time as I rediscovered them. As fair warning though, if you want a copy of the Limited Edition, you had better get yours reserved now. Only a certain number will be produced and once they are gone, that's it.

The extras should be an especially nice addition to a game that already seems to offer so much on its own. But Todd Hollinshead said that the team felt like they wanted to include something extra for the Xbox release. It just seemed like the right thing to do.

If the Xbox is indeed due to take a backseat to the Xbox 2 at the end of the year, it looks like Doom 3 is going to send the system out with amazing fanfare and should cause quite a few gamers to wonder if the old console is being put out to pasture a wee bit early.