Quite simply cannot wait. PS3? ID - for sanity's sake include keyboard & mouse support. I may never forgive Activision for this omission in Call of Duty 4. How hard can it be really

59% health and 0% armour?

Just what sort of IT journalists are you??!!

I have fond memories of weeks spent playing the original shareware version of Doom on my old 386 and later on the touch-sensitive whiteboard in the boardroom of the offices of my first real IT job.

Spent wayyy too many days fighting with the level-editor too.

Definately time for a good revamp.

Random wish - get John Carpenter to do the music.

Can we PLEASE have Duke Nukem Forever first?

GET YOUR PRIORITIES RIGHT.

Joke, because DNF will never be released. Ever.

"The latest version of the title will be available on just about every gaming platform, including the PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3. Perhaps a Wii version would be a little tricky though?"

Will there be a linux version?

I'll never forget the impact that Doom had when I first saw it flickering into its 320x200x256 glory on my friends 386DX240.

No other fps game has come close to recreating the same atmosphere for me, persuading my boss we absolutely needed Novell Netware (for the IPX/SPX transport) to integrate the different machines (macs and windows boxes) - when all I knew was in the readme.txt it said that Novell was a suitable network for Doom - those first LAN parties when I borrowed the key of the office to do some "maintenance", and so on.

Ah, the nostalgia.

Of course, the new one won't have the same impact, but, I gotta have it....

Snore-a-thon, you have to wonder what all these creative minds are up to when all they can come up with is another tired rehash of a game that is 15 years old.

Change the record already.

Resident Evil 4 isn't first person. but metroid prime was a wii version would just work as follows

movement with the analogue on nunchuck and look would work by always trying to centre with where the remotes pointing B button shoot with secondary function on the chucks button easy.

will look for the cheque from id for given them the blindingly obvious (and already used) idea.

any one else ever wonder why you had to pick up bullets but never any fuel for the chain saw ??

Albeit GLDOOM @1024x768 with mouse look, it is incredibly fast and playable and wait for it....it even works under Vista. I tend to pick a random level and try and complete it from scratch, otherwise it is too easy as you carry over the weapons and ammo from previous levels.

Single-handed blaster shell with movement on the nunchuck in the second hand.

When using a single-handed gun, the nunchuck hand is armed with a melee weapon (fist, knuckleduster, knife, etc) controlled by the motion detection.

Of course, you should be able to stick a bayonet on a weapon (chainsaw bayonet, anyone?) for further close-combat mayhem...

That would be crazy-mental-cool.

But if Doom4 is out on Linux, even if it is as poor a showing as Doom3 was, I'll buy it.

Ooooh yes, now THIS is what I've been waiting for! In fact, my current box and geForce 7600GT card were bought with Doom3 in mind. 'Twas DOOM the one that made me spend hours on my good ole 486 (and then my first Pentium) on hours at end. Began with the shareware version (the one that still had the swastika layout in e1m4), then bought Doom2, and finally that Doom Ultimate pack (Doom1 + 4th episode). I acknowledge Phobos Lab (e1m5) as the first level that truly inspired fear... everything so dark...

By the way, I recognize that screenshot, that would be Deimos Anomaly (e2m1).

Mine's the one with the BFG9000

i dont think they would need to update the gfx for the wii... will be about as good as it looks anyway.

i will pass tho - i cant stand FPS on consoles and i just cant be arsed to sit and play on a pc after sitting infront of one for 9 hours a day!

back to gta IV i think :)

"any one else ever wonder why you had to pick up bullets but never any fuel for the chain saw ??"

Future technology, innit. Perhaps it was an electric chainsaw that recharged itself using its own kinetic energy!

Enemy Territory:Quake Wars runs very well indeed on Linux. developed on the Doom3 engine by Splash Damage here in London. I cannot see why a Doom4 on linux wouldn't be possible.

Should be available for linux, Carmack has a fondness for OpenGL (vs DirectX) and has made all previous versions available for linux. I'll take what I can get game-wise for linux, but I'd much rather see a linux version of ArmA 2.

learning how to network PCs so Doom could be played multiplayer. Having to learn what IP addresses did and making sure the right cards and drivers were installed...much better than "Networking For Dummies" for a crash course in peer to peer communications.

Bought them both, but both are registered as windows copies as there wasn't a linux retail box.

I'm sorry, but Wolfenstein was crap. I understand there there have to be certain steps on the way to brilliance (Doom) but why oh why did they have to be published? Oh look, another brick lined corridor with bats in it. Shock. More excitement in original Pong (or whatever its first incarnation was called, can't remember, sold the box at a car boot, now kicking myself)

Still looks like the orignal, only with crisper texels.

It's be a huge improvement if they did actual 3D character models for a change. Plus, a great deal could be done once the levels were given a good once-over as well.

Ah, well... if only they'd do a systems mod for Duke Nukem 3D...

I remember that port 666 was listed as an official port and I belive it still is to this day :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers

...just couldn't find one anywhere in Doom3! I rapidly got fed up of wandering around lost in the dark so gave up!

(and played BF2 instead)

@Ash, me too for DNF, c'mon!

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble-gum, and I'm all out'a gum.."

- Paris loves Duke too.

I remember the first time I played Doom3 being 'how can I make the computer room darker so I can see a single thing in the game?' My old card couldn't really handle it - thought it was funny that the game was slow because it was realistically rendering millions of polygons, all of them in the same shade of black. They went for spooky, I just got eye-strain.

With more advances in GFX processing since then, there must be millions of shades of 'almost black', 'pretty black', 'midnight coal', 'pitch charcoal' and so on.

Or maybe this time the hero will gaffer-tape his flashlight to his @#$ing head instead of having to carry it so you can see something occasionally.

Black helicopters, because they might show up in the game, and you might even be able to see them this time.

Samey enemies, samey level design, ultimately boring gameplay. Pity, because the quasi-satanic aspect of it had the potential to create tons of atmosphere. Quake was much the same, as was Wolfenstein 3D.

Dark Forces in terms of level design and variation was much superior IMO.

As a number of people here, I've been really disappointed by Doom 3. Yeah, "quest for the light switch" LOL. Didn't buy it, after seeing critics and the demo, and went for the largely superior Quake 4, which had relinked to the Quake 2 storyline, after Q3 which was an arena game.

I also love the doom series, 1 and 2 were superb and I'm really looking forward to see Doom 4, hopefully on the tracks of the first 2 in terms of atmosphere. And light :-)

Also, if it's a good title and is avail on the Wii, it might very well put an end to my anti-console religion.

I still play Doom I/II, Heretic and Hexen (all derivatives of the Doom engine). It plays very well under Win XP using Zdoom, including networking! DOS LIVES! Viva DOS! (I didn't say that, did I?)

Paris, cause it's so hard to choose.