Hella Cool; The Metalhead/Technofetish Orgy of Doom 3

From: The Stranger | Date: August 12, 2004| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

IF YOU'RE A pentagram-sketching head-banger who has thrown the horns a few times too often and now obsesses over books of production designs from The Matrix, your ideal computer game is ready. Doom 3, the latest chapter in id Software's famous series, combines the hoary thrills of mwah- hah-hah! demonic imagery with the most lovingly imagined and rendered depictions of futuristic machinery I've ever seen. All of this is enclosed in bleeding-edge computer-graphics technology and a dense, senso...

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