CPL Drops Doom3 From World Tour

Antony.S writes "This morning, the CPL (Cyberathelete Professional League) confirmed that they have dropped Doom 3 as the World Tour game. The press release states they "are in discussion with two other publishers/developers". Could one of them Atari/Epic of Unreal Tournament 2004, seen by many as the only serious contender left, or maybe Dreamcatcher of Painkiller, the Summer CPL 1vs1 game? Which ever game is chosen, Doom 3 is still being played at Winter CPL this December."

UT2K4

[jlapier]

My vote would be for Unreal Tournament 2004. UT2k4 takes the best of tournament style multiplayer and adds to it. It doesn't have the beauty of Doom 3's graphics, but it's fast and it's fun....

Doom3 Multiplay

[FriedTurkey]

I am surprised Doom3 was ever used for competition. I love the Doom3 single player experience. The graphics and scare factors are awesome. However, the multiplay was tacked on as an afterthought. Doom3 will have some great mods someday. I just can't get excited about 4 player multiplay in really tight spaces in a really dark environment. After an hour with Doom3 multiplay, I whipped out my Quake 3 disc.

No surprise...

[ThePyro]

Looking at GameSpy's online stats [gamespy.com]:

# 1 Half-Life.......96423 players
#10 UT 2004..........4710 players
#12 Quake 3 Arena....4162 players
#23 Quake 2...........658 players
#37 Doom 3............240 players

That's...erm... really bad. The players have spoken.