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Steerpike August 2004   Even people who haven't heard of
computer games have heard of DOOM. It is one of the seminal
events in PC gaming and sparked the stratospheric rise of this
medium. Thus, when id Software announced in 2000 that its next
project would be a story-driven sequel with a focus on single
player, there was plenty of excitement. John Carmack's new
engine was rumored to be far more advanced than anything anyone
had imagined, and as the breathtaking screenshots trickled out,
excitement grew proportionally. And then id fell largely silent
for four years.  While those screenshots still look really good,
they are no longer the mind-blowers they were when we first saw
them in 2001. Back then, their competition was the Quake 3 and
Unreal engines, powering games like Return to Castle
Wolfenstein. Though it's still the best engine currently
available, these days it does face some visual rivalry. And four
years is a long, long time to work on a