Classic Doom 3

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The Classic Doom 3 modification is a remake of the original 1993 Doom game, by id Software, in Doom 3. The main emphesis is that of brining the older game up to date in a modern graphics engine. The project makes use of all of Doom 3's advanced graphical features while retaining the atmosphere of the original game. This mod only works with the original retail release of Doom 3, patched to version 1.3.1. This mod does not currently work with the Doom 3 BFG Edition. Some BFG source ports are available that reportedly work with this mod, but are untested. The project is complete, and only includes the shareware levels.

Post news Report RSS The Making of Classic Doom 3 Mod - Full Documentary

The Making of Classic Doom 3 mod, a documentary that has been over a year in the making has been released. The documentary includes the history behind how the mod Classic Doom 3 was created, the impact it had at the time of release and it’s legacy today through interviews with members of the original team.

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Brian ‘SonicClang’ Kline (Twitter.com) with support from Ry Feiner (Twitter.com) interviews the original modding team and fans, giving a time capsule into what modding was like at it’s peak in in the early-mid 2000s.

The Making of Classic Doom 3 Mod 1

The process behind creating the documentary involved a long proces of digital archaeology, search for artefacts that existed on the internet 15-20 years ago. This has been a long term project that looked at the original Classic Doom 3 mod project point releases, while also uncovering internal development builds, the reviving of an archived version of the original development forum, and looking at various news articles from the time of release.

Classic Doom 3 is a completed modification for the original Doom 3 retail release and requires the game to be patched to version 1.3.1, availabe here on moddb:
Moddb.com

The full soundtrack is also available to listen to on SonicClang's YouTube Channel:
Youtube.com

The mod does not work directly with Doom 3 BFG Edition however some source ports are compatible.

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SweetRamona
SweetRamona - - 5,114 comments

Interesting!

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TheDebonairNomad
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Fascinating.

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