New 3D Doom 3 spin-off coming to iPhone

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 11th June 2009
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New 3D Doom 3 spin-off coming to iPhone

The iPhone version of Doom 3 will be dubbed Doom: Resurrection and will use downgraded version of Doom 3 graphics.

John Carmack, id Software founder and technical know-it-all, has announced that he's currently working on bringing a Doom 3 spin-off to the iPhone within the next few weeks, as well as a version of Classic Doom.

Dubbed Doom: Resurrection, the iPhone game will be a spin-off story to the original Doom 3 and will again put players on the UAC Mars station. It'll use down-sampled artwork taken directly from Doom 3 and will use a tilt-based aiming system rather than a tap-based design according to Gamasutra.

Said to run at a solid 30 FPS and provide around five hours of solid gameplay, the game will also have a host of new iPhone 3.0 features that'll unlock when the new firmware becomes available.

Despite the solid framerate and promising graphics though, Carmack has said that the iPhone is being held back a bit by the software and OS inefficiencies.

"If you look at it in raw hardware horsepower, the iPhone should be better in performance than the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable," he told VentureBeat. "But the truth is, you can't exploit it all because of software inefficiencies."

Carmack says he's soon to meet with Apple in person and talk about how the iPhone software could be optimised in the future though - another sign that Apple is increasingly pushing the iPhone as a gaming platform.

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Quote markwalker84 11th June 2009, 13:40
Tilt based aiming?

Not convinced by that...
Quote perplekks45 11th June 2009, 15:14
Release a demo and I'll give it a try but without one I don't think I'll pay for "tilt based aiming". Sounds weird.
Quote Mentai 11th June 2009, 15:14
I would love to see what Carmack can do with that platform if they cut out the bloat.

I have to say, as much as I hate the Apple PR machine, thanks to all the software and games being released for the platform, the iPhone is actually tempting.
Quote Otto69 11th June 2009, 19:27
The IPod Touch should give you all the gaming ability w/out all the phone crap. I just bought one and a mac to run the IDE and some books and will be trying it out in a week or so.
Quote yakyb 12th June 2009, 08:14
didnt realise they were more powerful than the ds/psp software inefficiencies is funny tho


whom here played Doom RPG
Quote CardJoe 12th June 2009, 09:58
Ugh. Apparent it's an on-rails shooter, hence the tilt-based controls.

http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/11/hands-on-with-upcoming-doom-resurrection/
Quote War-Rasta 12th June 2009, 14:44
I wasn't thrilled about this at first, but if it's on rails then it might actually work. I guess I'll have to steal an iPhone from one of my friends and try this out when the demo's out.
Quote perplekks45 13th June 2009, 01:29
IF there will be a demo...

On rails? Hmmmmm... does that mean that enemies can't just materialize behind me? Must be a good thing then. :)
Quote DarkFear 14th June 2009, 15:03
Tilt based aiming? Sounds like something you'd do at a urinal....
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