Meanwhile, NPCs and even the enemies you fight are irregularly scaled. Then, after holding the ‘Options’ button down and resetting the view, I’d apparently been sized down to a small child. Even when you adjust the height settings to your real-life height, the terrain itself never feels appropriately sized to accommodate you. Right off the bat, the scale of the world around you is noticeably weird. However, this port immediately reveals some of the key flaws of just taking a campaign that plays great in 2D and dropping it into virtual reality. Its added weight brings an extra something special to the quality of two-handed weapons in VR, and Doom 3 is the perfect game to showcase that in.

Furthermore, there’s an indescribable level of satisfaction that comes with blasting a Cacodemon with a plasma rifle or sawing apart a zombie with a chainsaw when your entire Aim Controller is rumbling from top to bottom. These constant jumpscares work as well in VR in 2021 as they did on-screen in 2004. I felt a sense of tense exhilaration whenever I shined my flashlight into the dark corners of a room, often followed by a startling jolt as a demon popped out of the shadows or through a doorway at me.

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