Doom 3 Benchmarks for Mac OS X

By Jim on March 8th, 2005

Macworld has a look at Doom 3 benchmarks. Also see the discussion thread in the Macworld forum.

I wish I could say I was excited about seeing Doom 3 appear on OS X but I’m not. I am more excited about the idea of games based on the Doom 3 engine appearing though but, after playing the PC version of Doom 3, I quickly got bored with the game. I hate being in claustrophic tunnels, barely being able to see. Compared to Unreal Tournament 2004 or the glory of World of Warcraft, Doom 3 just didn’t do it for me. True, the graphics were great. But the gameplay was just too tedious after a while for me.

Still, kudos to Aspyr for bringing it out for the mac platform. I can’t wait to see what other games – based on the Doom 3 engine – follow.

Too bad though that’s it’s no optimized for dual G5 boxes. That is a BIG disappointment and shame on id for making such a bad decision. Ugh.