Jazzem wrote:Cheeky Devlin wrote:Downloading some 3DO games just now and giving them a shot. Some alright stuff in amongst the trash.
The port of Doom is absolutely honkin though. Seriously bad.
Bahaha yeah it's a bit of a notorious mess,
Doom Wiki wrote:Pre-production on the 3DO version began when Art Data Interactive purchased console rights to Doom for a large sum of money, but without a staff to actually develop the port, Art Data's CEO shopped around for a team. The project eventually wound up with Rebecca "Burger Becky" Heineman at Logicware, who had already impressed Art Data with her 3DO port of Wolfenstein 3D, and who Art Data assured the project was already well underway and just needed some fine tuning. Heineman would then find that virtually no work had actually been done on the project, and that the CEO of Art Data had grossly underestimated how much work it would actually take to develop the game, boasting about brand new levels, enemies and weapons in the press when all he had was mock-up art assets. With no support from Art Data, Heineman acquired the PC and Jaguar source code for Doom straight from id Software and created a quick-and-dirty conversion in just ten weeks.[1]
Full-motion video cutscenes were also planned to take advantage of the 3DO's media streaming capabilities and increased CD-ROM storage medium, but these never came to pass.[2] In its stead the 3DO port features a newly remixed soundtrack, created to replace the Jaguar-specific audio drivers that Heineman was unable to port, and recorded by a band that Art Data's CEO was a part of.
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/3DOGood lord the soundtrack though
Yeah the music's not bad actually. Not a patch on the PC original (Dat MIDI sound
) but decent enough. The frame rate is all over the place in the game though. It's nearly impossible to aim at anything. I ran out of ammo on the first level against just four grunts and two Imps.
It clearly was a quick and dirty port and to be fair, if that was ten weeks worth of work it's better than I would have expected.
Strangely enough I just tried the Wolfenstein 3D port and it's genuinly fantastic. Really smooth, nice textures and not a frame drop in sight. It's a shame as I imagine Doom would have ran much better if the team had a proper amount of time to port it.