Frequently Asked Questions: Who is making the new Doom game? When will the new Doom be completed? What will the new game be called? Will it be a first person, or thirdperson view? I have a Mac. Am I screwed? I wanna play too! The original Doom games scared the poop outta me. Will this game do that? Will it be the same mass rush of monsters as the original Doom games? Will the DooM game be using the Q3 engine? I heard that Nine inch Nails were doing the soundtrack. Is that true? Will it have free for all Multiplayer madness like the Quake series? Q3test was great! Any chance of a Doom test? Who is making the new Doom game? The friendly folks at id Software who brought you such games as the original doom series and the Quake series. When will the new Doom be completed? 2003 is the latest release date that we have so far from id Software. Other then that. They only know. What will the new game be called? The title for the new DOOM game has been announced as DOOM III Will it be a first person, or thirdperson view? It will be first person shooter. I have a Mac. Am I screwed? I wanna play too! No, your fine. It will be released for Linux and Mac OS X as well. The original Doom games scared the poop outta me. Will this game do that? All signs point to yes Will it be the same mass rush of monsters as the original Doom games? Given the amazing details, lighting effects and models shown in the teaser movie, I would suspect not. What kind of gaming rig am I going to need to run this puppy? I would have to say a pretty darn fast one. a quote from Mr. Carmack to help answer that. "I am hoping that the absolute top-of-the-line system available when the game ships will be capable of running it with all features enabled and anti-aliasing on at 60hz, but even the fastest cards of today are going to have to run at fairly low resolutions to get decent frame rates. Many will choose to drop a feature or two to get some speed back, but they still won't be able to get near 60hz." Will the DooM game be using the Q3 engine? No, John Carmack has stated it will be "Employing an entirely new 3-D graphics engine". Appropriately called the DOOM III engine. I heard that Nine inch Nails were doing the soundtrack. Is that true? Trent Reznor did do the sound track for the demo shown at E3 and there is a very good chance he is doing it for the full game. Will it have free for all Multiplayer madness like the Quake series? Yes and no. The game is geared to be a singleplayer experience, but id have stated that Deathmatch will also be included for multiplayer. Q3test was great! Any chance of a Doom test? Your in luck. id Software has stated that there would be a test released prior for bug squashing and play compatibility.