Doom 3
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Doom 3

79
Critic Rating
#Shooter

About

Doom 3 is a first-person shooter with survival horror elements. Played mostly from a first-person perspective, it sends the player through the corridors and facilities of a research base, fighting waves of enemies while managing limited resources. A signature design choice forces the player to choose between holding a weapon or a flashlight, encouraging a slower, tense pace built around darkness and ambush. The game uses a story-driven structure supported by radio messages, audio logs, and data devices that unlock areas and reveal information. It also includes a separate deathmatch-focused multiplayer mode.

Storyline

Doom 3 is set on Mars in 2145, where a powerful corporation runs a research facility experimenting in areas such as teleportation, biological research, and advanced weapons, often outside legal and ethical limits. The player takes the role of a newly arrived space marine assigned to routine duties at the base. When a teleportation experiment loses containment, a gateway to Hell is torn open and the facility is overrun, transforming much of the personnel into hostile creatures. Cut off and outnumbered, the marine must fight through the base to survive, uncover what the experiments unleashed, and stop the invasion from spreading beyond Mars.

Playtime Estimates

Main Story10.9h
Main + Extra13.1h
Completionist16.8h
All Styles12.1h
Confidence: 100%Updated: 7/22/2026

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Multiplayer

Online Max8 players

Languages

LanguageSupport
GermanInterface
GermanAudio
EnglishInterface
Spanish (Spain)Interface
EnglishAudio
Spanish (Spain)Audio
FrenchInterface
FrenchAudio
ItalianInterface
ItalianAudio
JapaneseInterface
JapaneseAudio

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Game Info

Release Date8/3/2004
Developerid Software
PublisherActivision
PlatformsXbox, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
GenresShooter
IGDB Rating79/100 (438)

Game Modes

Single player
Multiplayer
Co-operative

Themes

Action
Science fiction
Horror
Survival

Perspectives

First person

Release Dates

LinuxOct 4, 2004
MacMar 15, 2005
MacMar 14, 2005
XboxApr 3, 2005
PC (Microsoft Windows)Aug 3, 2004
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