Comments on: Id Software Announces 'Doom Resurrection' for iPhone

By: Ville Helin

Ville Helin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:40 +0000

If the phone has a feature, like accelerometer, you don't have to use it in your game if it doesn't work there. And on rails? Going to skip and forget this game so fast…

By: sufy

sufy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:18 +0000

Wow this is just some great news Doom 3 on an iphone! Have to say judging by the trailer I have just seen the graphics are not on par with a PSP or a DS and the framerate is bad.

By: reinhart_menken

reinhart_menken — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:59:37 +0000

@spiffyone:

Accelerator movement AND touch-based firing, spiffyone. Wrong pause/connect at the wording

By: ataru

ataru — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:17:19 +0000

With Carmack involved, we'll be guaranteed a technical tour de force. The man is a master. I am a little concerned over the controls though.

By: Fokion

Fokion — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:40:43 +0000

As soon as I saw the pics and read about accelerometer controls, I thought this would most probably be on rails. Not that it's a bad thing, I love gallery shooters, provided they are challenging and well designed. I suspect that id will offer an increased degree of control compared to other tap to shoot games.

Oh, and "as it stands", the iDevice is more of a casual platform. Just like Apple wants it to be. After all, it's the DS that's making the big bucks.

By: Rocco

Rocco — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:17:12 +0000

The STP article says ON RAILS!
That's sounds not fun.

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:36:09 +0000

Great news!

I just hope that since Carmack is involved, he'll make sure the frame rate is decent. Too many games on iPhone (especially shooters) suffer from really poor frame rate.

By: Sureshot

Sureshot — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:43:41 +0000

i am worried with the controls… my experience with accelerometer fps controls so far had been a horrible experience.

i am also worried about the gameplay. this might not have enough hours of gameplay unlike the classics.

it still looks pretty badass though

By: spiffyone

spiffyone — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:38:28 +0000

Accelerometer controlled movement AND aiming?

How does that even work out?

I mean…accelerometer movement and touch aiming I can see, but how can you move AND aim at the same time using JUST the motion sensor?

By: arn

arn — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:08:50 +0000

the game will be demoed tongiht at the launch party:
http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/10/wwdc-iphone-launch-party-tonight-live-stream/

arn