Doom 3 Goes Gold – FPS Glory Poised to Ship
PC version now complete – the wait is nearly over.
In the words of The Young Ones hated hippy Neil, the sole attendee of the benefit gig to free the oppressed workers of the house, “He'd better be good, this Norman Tebbit”...
20-something years later, and we can draw a parallel between Nigel Planer's immortal lentil-munching, peace-loving character and the eager PC FPS gaming community, as it learns that the massively anticipated Doom 3 - arguably one of the most important games in recent times - has gone gold, is 100% complete, and ready to ship to stores.
Todd Hollenshead, CEO at id Software, released the following triumphant statement. “IT'S DONE!!!!!!! Yes, this is the official word that Doom 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! It won't be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made.”
Hollenshead went on to date the game for US release. “Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. The official street date is actually August 5th in the U.S.A., but some of your favourite stores will probably have it early for those of you who have to have it first.”
No word yet on the European date, though the delay between territories is expected to exceed no more than two weeks.
Stay tuned for updates in the coming days!
20-something years later, and we can draw a parallel between Nigel Planer's immortal lentil-munching, peace-loving character and the eager PC FPS gaming community, as it learns that the massively anticipated Doom 3 - arguably one of the most important games in recent times - has gone gold, is 100% complete, and ready to ship to stores.
Todd Hollenshead, CEO at id Software, released the following triumphant statement. “IT'S DONE!!!!!!! Yes, this is the official word that Doom 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! It won't be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made.”
Hollenshead went on to date the game for US release. “Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. The official street date is actually August 5th in the U.S.A., but some of your favourite stores will probably have it early for those of you who have to have it first.”
No word yet on the European date, though the delay between territories is expected to exceed no more than two weeks.
Stay tuned for updates in the coming days!
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config 15 Jul 2004 12:36
1/4
I saw an art on, um, Gamespot's rumour control I think. They were going on about a advert that was "leaked" from Activision and contained the text "we said we'd release it when it's done... it's done"
They were flapping about it not having a release date and probably being a pre-prepared Activision sales document. They wrote that Activision staff wouldn't confirm or deny the authenticity of the document, finally chosing to mark the document as "possibly bogus"
Duh.
Clearly they don't have very good contacts. The advert in question formed the inside page of a wrapper on last week's industry paper MCV - the paper was published the very day they ran the article
They were flapping about it not having a release date and probably being a pre-prepared Activision sales document. They wrote that Activision staff wouldn't confirm or deny the authenticity of the document, finally chosing to mark the document as "possibly bogus"
Duh.
Clearly they don't have very good contacts. The advert in question formed the inside page of a wrapper on last week's industry paper MCV - the paper was published the very day they ran the article
GeoffreyBa 15 Jul 2004 13:09
2/4
Todd Hollenshead did give what could be considered as reasonable release dates for Europe. UK is suppose to get it the 6th, and most of the rest of Europe except maybe Russia and Poland because of localization, but for most of Europe is Friday, August 13th. So yes there are dates that will probably be right for release dates in Europe though Spong obviously didn't read the whole e-mail. Oh and by the way Todd wanted to see the whole Doom 3 going gold thing breaking records in message boards but I doubt it will really matter theres enough people who pre-ordered this game as it is.
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Pandaman 15 Jul 2004 22:32
3/4
Considering the ammount of time this was in the making, I can't wait to see how it handles the unsurmountable hype!
config 16 Jul 2004 08:40
4/4
Alan Poole wrote:
>Considering the ammount of time this was in the
>making, I can't wait to see how it handles the
>unsurmountable hype!
I hope that Activision have the good sense not to enforce minimum scores in exchange for exclusive reviews.
Of course, Doom3 might actually be a good game and not require such shady dealings to get positive coverage.
>Considering the ammount of time this was in the
>making, I can't wait to see how it handles the
>unsurmountable hype!
I hope that Activision have the good sense not to enforce minimum scores in exchange for exclusive reviews.
Of course, Doom3 might actually be a good game and not require such shady dealings to get positive coverage.