Aspyr Media Inc. announce Friday its long - expect Macintosh conversion of i d Software ’s hit first person shooterDoom 3has gone “ gold master , ” the final whole tone before a secret plan goes to product . Doom 3 for the Mac is bear to begin shipping on March 14 , 2005 .
break by i d Software and bring to the Mac both by i d and Aspyr Studios , Aspyr ’s in - star sign exploitation team , Doom 3 is essentially a re - telling of the original Doom taradiddle , first brought to life more than a decade ago . You adopt the role of a Marine send as part of a detachment to guard a Union Aerospace Corp. facility on the planet Mars . There ’s an invasion of otherworldly , monstrous creatures , and you alone must push back the onslaught — or gamble this nightmare from reaching Earth itself .
Doom 3 utilizes a core game locomotive engine that provides significantly more realistic 3D nontextual matter rendering effects than Mac users have seen in a game up to now . The gamey floor of detail follow at a price : Minimum organisation requirements for the game call for Mac OS X v10.3.8 or subsequently , a G4/1.5GHz or faster equipped with with 512 MB RAM , 2.0 GB backbreaking magnetic disk , ATI Radeon 9600 or Nvidia GeForce FX5200 or better 3D computer graphic with at least 64 MB VRAM , and a DVD drive . ( Recommended system requirements are higher still — a 2.0GHz G5 or faster and a TV system with 128 megabit VRAM . )
Doom 3 went gold for the personal computer last July . I d Software promised a Mac translation , but it was November before Aspyr announced program to publish the game . Aspyr ab initio hoped to ship Doom 3 in February , but the ship day of the month slipped to March .
Doom 3 is rated “ M ” for Mature by the ESRB and will cost US$ 49.99 . It ’s available for pre - decree from links on Aspyr ’s Web site .
