Last modified: Fri Feb 20 16:36:58 EST 2009
Description: Remake—a mod for DOOM 3 that recreates Knee-Deep in the Dead in a DOOM 3 kind of way.
Source: http://cdoom.d3files.com/
Before I pick nits with a generally brilliant remake, dig Brian Kline's (Sonic Clang) remake of the E1M1 music. (Your browser must be set up to play OGG files for that link to work.)
As I said, it is a brilliant remake. The levels are reproduced in loving detail, instantly recognizable and fun to play. The nits are that the overall gameplay and the terrible lighting are loyal to DOOM 3. Auto-aim is a luxury that you will not find here.
One of the nice things about Classic DOOM was you could move forward and back using a mouse or (preferably) a trak ball, and use the keyboard for strafing and firing. In DOOM 3, the option to allow forward and back motion with the mouse is broken and would be of dubious value in a true 3-D level anyway.
Extreme slowdown using version 71.82 of the nVidia drivers. No such problem with drivers version 87.62.
Cannot get the audio to work except with +set s_driver oss
+set s_numberOfSpeakers 2 (which gives up surround sound).
A non-default keyboard layout (e.g., Dvorak) causes doom3 to corrupt its key bindings from one run to the next. I work around by preserving uncorrupt copies of base/DoomConfig.cfg and cdoom/DoomConfig.cfg and overwriting the ones under ~/.doom3 before each run.
Having done all that, the Linux version runs more smoothly than the Windows one, but with inferior audio.