Prepare to meet thy Doom 3

I didn't mean to...

It just happened...

The paper shredder, intended to destroy sensitive information¹, was right next to the games section.

Well, OK, it was 100 yards away, but when the voice of logic & reason says "anything else you need?" it's always a good cue to check your mental list and avoid those annoying moments when you get home and shout "oh, bollocks², I forgot the XXXX".

So I checked my list.

• Paper Shredder.

So, yeah, lucky that happened otherwise I'd have got home and had to kick myself, having first shouted "oh, bollocks, I forgot to pickup Doom 3 for the Xbox."

Anyway, smug with the glow that only occasional self-satisfaction can bring, I went straight to the games section (right next door, remember? ) and grabbed the box at the number 1 slot.

Back at the bat-cave I waited for dusk to fall but then lapsed into a fall, of the sleeping kind, myself and awoke at around 3 in the morning. Darkness. Ideal for playing 18-rated games like Doom 3.

There was a lot of buzz amongst the PC community about this release some months ago, but back then Halo2 was my main priority. I admit to fearing that Doom 3 would break the nostalgic spell that still existed from playing Doom on a DX2 66MHz way back when...

...having a phat smoke before going to work and stepping into the lobby of the corporate HQ, the marble compass on the floor erily reminiscent of a Doom-style pentagram.

Into the lift, doors slid shut. Going up...

...OK, OK, so what happens when the lift stops? Click-click, shotgun ready...

...WTF am I doing? This is work in leafy suburbia not a research facility on planet Mars...

So yeah, there's a lot of history between me and this game - 10 years or more. But sitting with a new copy in 2005, the power of the Xbox and the lights out...

...I need new underpants and a heart bypass.

1. Apparently ID theft is getting big in this country. It's probably just some big conspiracy theory dreamt-up by paper-shredder companies. But hey I believe the hype, it keeps people in jobs right? ;)


2. See Bollocks