In more bad news for high profile releases, Bethesda isn't going to send out review copies of Doom 4 before release date because multiplayer won't be available until then. That doesn't bode very well IMO. I was hoping to hear about the game beforehand and potentially go for a Day 1 purchase, but now it looks like this is going to be a standard 1 and Gamefly Done for me.
Still pissed at all this emphasis on MP in Doom games. I mean yes, Doom was one of the multiplayer pioneers, but it was FAR from the selling point for it. I mean Doom at one point was on more computers than Windows 95 was, and I guarantee less than 20% of those users were playing MP on it. I mean back then, you had to either do one on one modem calls (which INCLUDED a co-op campaign BTW) or set it up on a LAN.
In any case, just sad that the game with the reveal looked SO freaking awesome but as more and more info is coming out, it just keeps me thinking "Eh......" A stark reminder that this Doom has NOTHING to do with the brilliant guys who came up with the original. It might be from id Software, but this ain't from the great John Carmack, John Romero, and Adrian Carmack.
