Word: doomful
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Sometime in 1993 I noticed a dramatic decline in my personal productivity. Also affected were my sleeping habits and personal hygiene. Same thing happened in 1996. It may or may not be a coincidence that 1993 was the year id Software released a video game called Doom, and 1996 was the year they put out Quake. Maybe there's a connection, maybe not. But I have a feeling it's going to happen all over again in about three weeks when id releases Doom...
...read this far, you probably already know what Doom 3 is - the next big game from id - and who id Software are - the spiritual and technological fathers of the modern video game as we know and love it. From the title you'd think Doom 3 was a sequel to the earlier Doom games, but you'd be wrong: It's actually a wholesale reimagining and retelling of the original Doom scenario. You're a Marine posted to a fancy-pants research facility on Mars. You show up, something goes really, phenomenally wrong, and suddenly you're squaring off against...
...similarities to the original Doom end there. Doom 3 runs on all-new technology, and let's not mince words: there has never been a game that looks this good. I'm not sure what does it - the highly detailed textures, the fancy colored light and shadow-play, the all-new physics models, the "normal mapping" (whatever that is) - but id has created a virtual environment that's more compelling and immersive and realistic than really seems possible. Get up close to one of the demons and look at his skin: it gleams with a dull, matte, scaly sheen that...
That's for phlegmatic Swedish policeman Stefan Lindman to discover. Lindman is struggling with his own doom--he has been diagnosed with cancer--but he's dogged in his pursuit of an investigation that drags him into the world of Swedish Nazis and the eerie quiet of the deep Scandinavian countryside, where distances are vast and detectives...
...just when it seemed those injuries wouldn’t again doom Harvard’s chances, all three matches simultaneously unravelled...