DOOM 3: BFG Edition Review

Finally you get one more expansion pack titled the Lost Mission. This single player expansion pack has never been released before! It’s much shorter than ROE, clocking in at about 3 hours.  It’s more of the same, a dark and creepy mission killing demons.  In my opinion this seems like a unfinished expansion pack  that they just wanted to get out for longtime fans of the game.  As a free bonus to the BFG Edition, you really can’t complain.  It has everything that was in the previous game and expansion giving you 8 extra levels including a challenging return to Hell.

It’s difficult grading Doom 3: BFG Edition. Do I grade each game and expansion pack individually or do I grade it as a whole? Since the game comes packaged as a whole, I’m going that route. Amazing graphics and Sound are the clear winners here. Another win is the dark story driven adventure worth 20 hours in a single play-through with many more if you plan on earning trophies/achievements and completing every difficulty.

A few things that could be improved would be the enemies AI. As you ramp up the difficulty the damage goes up, your armor and health goes down along with your supplies, however your enemies AI stays the same. All the Demons have tendencies that are easy to figure out and trick. Also the online mode could have been improved dramatically or just not put in. To be honest I’m perfectly fine with Doom being a single player experience.

Doom 3: BFG scores big with the huge amount of content representing the Doom brand very well. At the current budget price of $29.99, you can’t pass this up. I give BFG a 9 out of 10. This review was done exclusively on the PS3 and the game is also available on Xbox360 and PC.