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Doom 3: Maelstrom

Doom 3: Maelstrom is the second book in a series of three novels regarding Doom 3.

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

In 2147, two years after the events of Doom 3, the UAC detects a strange signal from one of its Martian satellites, and consequently sends a team in to investigate.

Doomguy

In Doom 3, Doomguy appears similar to his classic Doom incarnation, with the exception that his facial features are not concealed, since he does not wear a helmet (even though all other marines in the game wear the same helmet as the original Doomguy).

In Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, the main character is different from the Doomguy of Doom 3.

GeForce 6 Series

Notably, the 6600 GT offered identical performance to ATI's high-end X800 PRO graphics card with drivers previous December 2004, when running the popular game Doom 3.

Last Man Standing Coop

The Last Man Standing Coop (LMS) Mod is a Doom 3 single player and multiplayer modification.

It blends elements from Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 together into an "LMS Mod" gametype to create a classic Doom experience in a modern environment.

Paul Steed

He was employed by id Software until he was fired in retaliation for conflict over the creation of Doom 3 (according to John Carmack).

S3 Texture Compression

id Software worked around the normalmap compression issues in Doom 3 by moving the red component into the alpha channel before compression and moving it back during rendering in the pixel shader.

Voodoo2

Long after the chipset's obsolescence, some dedicated enthusiasts did get later games working with a Voodoo2, e.g. Doom 3.


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