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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club (usually known simply as Liverpool) is an English football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, they are the current champions of Europe and the most successful English football team to date. Since being founded in 1892, Liverpool is the only English team to have won the Champions league five times, 18 Football League titles as well as being the English club to have won the most number of UEFA Cups, European Supercups and English League Cups. The club's home ground is the 45,362 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool.

The club was founded on March 15, 1892 by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent. The original name was to be Everton F.C. but was changed to Liverpool F.C. (after the F.A. refused to recognise the team as Everton). Liverpool were elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later.

The club was present at two of the biggest tragedies in European football — at Heysel in 1985 and Hillsborough in 1989. After Heysel, English clubs were withdrawn from European competition for a period of five years, six in the case of Liverpool.

Liverpool Football Club is not to be confused with Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club which was formed in 1858 and is now known as Liverpool St. Helens.

History

Main article: History of Liverpool F.C.

Early Successes

In 1901 Scottish international Alex Raisbeck was the first Liverpool captain to collect the Football League Championship, and Liverpool were league champions again in 1906.

On April 25, 1914, Liverpool made their first appearance in the FA Cup final at Crystal Palace but lost 1-0 to Burnley. In 1922, and again in 1923, captained by England full back Ephraim Longworth, Liverpool won the league. In 1946-7, the first season after World War 2, Liverpool were surprise league champions. Over a decade of mediocrity was to follow.

The Bill Shankly Revolution

Bill Shankly became Liverpool manager in 1959 and over the next 15 years he transformed them into one of the finest club sides in Europe. In his third season as manager they won the Second Division championship and were promoted to the top flight where they have remained ever since, never finishing below eighth in the league. In 1964, Liverpool lifted the league championship. They failed to retain the championship trophy the following season but compensation came in the form of a first-ever FA Cup. A year later Liverpool regained their championship crown. By now Shankly was one of the most highly rated managers in the game, and his squad contained some of the finest players in England - Roger Hunt, Ian St John and Ron Yeats to name but a few. Liverpool made their first impact on the European game in 1973 with a UEFA Cup triumph, as well as winning another league title that season. They won the FA Cup again a year later, but Shankly stunned the footballing world soon afterwards by announcing his retirement. The club's players and fans tried to persuade him to carry on, and a local factory even threatened to go on strike. Shankly ignored these pleas and joined the club's fans on The Kop as a spectator, while he handed over his managerial duties to Bob Paisley.

Bob Paisley: The Greatest Glory Days

Bob Paisley was manager of Liverpool F.C from 1974 until 1983, and during those nine years he became one of the greatest managers ever to take charge of an English club. He won a total of 21 trophies, including three European Cups and three successive league titles, during his spell as manager and ended his career on a high with the league championship and League Cup double. Under Paisley, a new era of stars emerged. They included Graeme Souness, Ian Rush, Alan Hansen and arguably the greatest player to ever wear Liverpool colours, Kenny Dalglish who is also a Celtic legend.

Joe Fagan: Brief but Glorious

Veteran coach Joe Fagan moved up to the manager's seat on Paisley's retirement, and his first season at the helm saw Liverpool become the first English club to win three major trophies in a single season - the league title, the League Cup and the European Cup.

Fagan's second season as manager was his last - and it had a traumatic ending. Having lost to neighbours Everton in the race for the league title, Fagan decided to retire and wanted to go out on a high with the European Cup. The Reds had a rare trophyless season as they lost 1-0 to Juventus in the European Cup Final at Heysel Stadium in Brussels. But the disappointment of the defeat was irrelevant, as 39 spectators - nearly all Juventus fans - were crushed to death during crowd trouble before the kick off. Some Liverpool fans were later convicted on manslaughter charges relating to the tragedy. The sequel of the tragedy was a 5-year ban on English clubs in European football, while Liverpool had to serve an extra year once all other English clubs were readmitted.

Kenny Dalglish: Success in Exile

Fagan handed over the reins to striker Kenny Dalglish, who had established himself as a world class player and now wanted to prove himself as a top manager. His first season in charge could not have been better, as the Reds fought off competition from Everton, West Ham United and Manchester United to win the league title. They also beat neighbours Everton 3-1 in the F.A Cup final to become only the third team to win the league championship/F.A Cup double in the 20th century.

1986-87 was trophyless as Dalglish's men finished league runners-up to Everton and lost to Arsenal in the League Cup final. There were fears that Liverpool's glory days were over when striker Ian Rush was sold to Juventus in a £3.2million deal, but his £750,000 successor John Aldridge silenced the critics by topping the club's goalscoring charts in the 1987-88 season and inspiring the Reds to another championship success - this time achieved with just two defeats all season. New winger John Barnes was credited with the Player of the Year Award. The downside of the season was a shock 1-0 defeat at the hands of Wimbledon in the F.A Cup final. Liverpool had by this stage been one of England's strongest sides for more than 20 years. Wimbledon, meanwhile, had been First Division members for just two seasons and had only joined the league 11 years earlier.

Liverpool came close to repeating the double once more in 1988-89. They lifted the F.A Cup with another victory over Everton in the final, but the league title slipped out of their grasp in the last minute of their last game of the season at home to Arsenal. A last minute goal from Arsenal's Michael Thomas (who later joined Liverpool) gave the league title to the visitors because they had a superior goal difference. But the season was overshadowed by the Hillsborough Stadium tragedy which had struck the club in the F.A Cup semi-final. Hundreds of Liverpool fans were trampled on the terraces at Hillsborough. 94 fans died that day and 95th fan died in hospital from his injuries four days later. A 96th fan died nearly four years later having never regained consciousness.

Ian Rush had rejoined Liverpool after one miserable season with Juventus, and scored twice in the 1989 FA Cup final. He helped them win their 18th league title in 1989-90, but nobody could have guessed at the time that it would be their last championship success to date. Liverpool have had some glorious moments during the years that followed the 1990 title glory, but life at Anfield has never been the same without the championship trophy in the club's boardroom.

Graeme Souness: FA Cup winners

Kenny Dalglish stunned the football world by resigning as Liverpool manager in February 1991. His Liverpool side looked well placed to win the domestic double, but he quit the club and blamed the pressures of management for his decision to leave. Long serving coach Ronnie Moran spent two months in temporary charge of the team, but by the time his successor Graeme Souness arrived the league title and F.A Cup had been whisked away by Arsenal and Tottenham respectively.

Souness had captained Liverpool during the glorious 1980s before taking the Rangers manager's job in 1986, and had brought a host of titles to Ibrox. But his only success as manager at Liverpool came with the FA Cup in 1992, and he was finally ousted in January 1994 after a shock FA Cup defeat at home to Bristol City and three years of reckless spending on players who often failed to live up to expectations. Ian Rush was now the only player remaining from the Paisley era, and the current squad was mostly made up of unfashionable players who just a few seasons earlier would never have pulled on a red jersey. However, there was a promising young striker emerging in the shape of 18-year-old Robbie Fowler.

Roy Evans: The Nearly Men

Boot room veteran Roy Evans took over from Souness, and in his first full season (1994-95) they finished fourth in the Premiership and won the League Cup. Liverpool continued to progress the following season, being within a shout of the domestic double right up to the final few weeks of the season. But they finished third in the Premiership behind champions Manchester United and runners-up Newcastle, and lost 1-0 to Man United in the FA Cup final. Still, Liverpool were recognised as a top team once again, and were starting to attract top players once more. The club's youth system had produced two excellent players in Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman, and including Jamie Redknapp and Stan Collymore (all of whom went on to play for England), looked to be the most potent attacking force in the Premier League in the mid-late 1990s.

Liverpool led the Premiership at several stages during the 1996-97 season, but in the end they finished fourth and had to settle for a UEFA Cup place. They had been hoping to win the Cup Winners Cup for the first time, but defeat at the hands of Paris St Germain in the semi finals put paid to these hopes.

1997-98 saw Liverpool finish third in the Premiership, but the big news of the season was the emergence of brilliant young striker Michael Owen - the Premiership's equal top scorer with 18 goals who became the youngest full England international at the time and also won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award.

Gérard Houllier: Cup Kings

The Liverpool directors brought in Frenchman Gérard Houllier to work alongside Roy Evans for the 1998-99 season after Houllier had gained fame as the Technical Director of France's World Cup winning side in 1998. Evans quit in November after failing to settle into the partnership. The Reds finished eighth in the Premiership - their lowest finish since 1994 - and failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup despite Robbie Fowler's return from injury and Michael Owen's continued impressive showings. But 1999-2000 was a bit better, as Liverpool finished fourth and qualified for the UEFA Cup. They would have qualified for the Champions League had it not been for a 1-0 defeat at Bradford on the final day of the season.

2000-01 was Liverpool's best season for many years. The likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard and Sami Hyypia contributed to an excellent season in which the Reds finished third in the Premiership (thus qualifying for the Champions League) as well as completing a unique treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup, followed by the FA Community Shield and European Super Cup later in 2001. Houllier at last won the faith of the club's fans, who were delighted at this triumph.

Liverpool finished Premiership runners-up in 2001-02, their best league finish since 1991, but suffered a humiliating defeat in the League Cup Third Round at the hands of Grimsby Town.

Houllier guided Liverpool to another League Cup triumph in 2003, Houllier and Liverpool parted by mutual consent at the end of the 2003-04 season after failing to bring the Premiership title to Anfield and not looking like making any further progress, despite having spent large sums of money.

Rafael Benítez: Back on top of Europe

Spaniard Rafael Benítez took over from Houllier, but erratic league form quickly put paid to their Premiership title hopes, eventually finishing fifth. However, the season had a glorious ending at the European Cup final in Istanbul. After eliminating hot favourites Juventus in the quarter finals and English rivals Chelsea F.C. in the semis, the Reds met Italian side AC Milan in the final. Liverpool trailed 0-3 at half time, but three goals in the second half forced extra time and then a penalty shoot out, which Liverpool won.

Club captain Steven Gerrard lifting the European Cup in 2005.

As the UEFA Champions League 2005 winners, Liverpool earned the right to represent UEFA in the FIFA Club World Championship 2005 held in Japan. Liverpool joined the competition at the semi-final stage, courtesy of a bye. The semi-final was played against Deportivo Saprissa, which Liverpool won 3-0. Goals coming from Peter Crouch (2) and Steven Gerrard. Liverpool's final opponents were to be São Paulo. The game was decided by a single goal scored by São Paulo midfielder Mineiro.

On 27th January 2006, Benítez pleased the vast majority of Liverpool FC fans and re-signed the prominent former striker Robbie Fowler. Signed on a free-transfer from Manchester City until the end of the season, when an extension to his contract will be considered.

New Stadium

On July 30, 2004, Liverpool City Council granted the club planning permission to build a new 60,000 seat stadium, nearby at Stanley Park. Despite pressure from Governmental and funding bodies, Liverpool refused to share the new ground with their local rivals Everton and "final" talks on a groundshare failed in January 2005. At that time the club was hoping to start construction in summer 2005 and open the ground in 2007, but finance has not yet been obtained and the likely completion date is not currently known. The old stadium will become a public plaza surrounded by apartments, offices, bars, restaurants and a hotel, and possibly including a memorial garden. Treatment of the old stadium requires sensitivity as a number of deceased fans have had their ashes officially scattered on the pitch over the years.

Honours

¹ More than any other English club

² Title shared

Miscellaneous Facts and Figures

Match statistics

Club culture

Other

Current squad

As of 31 January, 2006

Players out on loan

Reserve and Academy players

Liverpool's reserve team plays its home games at the Racecourse Ground, the home stadium of Wrexham A.F.C..

See Also: List of Liverpool FC players

Staff

Famous Players and Managers

Stars

See also: List of Liverpool FC players

Managers

Statistics

Main article: Liverpool F.C. - Statistics

Famous Liverpool fans



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See Also: List of Liverpool FC players. This was primarily a result of id's decision to use the OpenGL standard for the graphics engine as opposed to Microsoft's proprietary Direct3D API which is only available for the Windows line of operating systems. Liverpool's reserve team plays its home games at the Racecourse Ground, the home stadium of Wrexham A.F.C.. Doom 3 continued id's long track record of creating games that were Linux compatible. As of 31 January, 2006. For example, Rockstar Games created sites for most companies mentioned in commercials on the in-game radio in Grand Theft Auto. ² Title shared. Some other developers have also created websites for in-game companies in the past.

¹ More than any other English club. The website for Martian Buddy, a fictional corporation prominently featured in the game, was also revealed before the game launch. Treatment of the old stadium requires sensitivity as a number of deceased fans have had their ashes officially scattered on the pitch over the years. Until the announcement of gold status, the site served as a teaser; later a countdown to the release date was added. The old stadium will become a public plaza surrounded by apartments, offices, bars, restaurants and a hotel, and possibly including a memorial garden. Shortly following the announcement of Doom 3's development, a promotional website was released that serves as the homepage of the fictional corporation operating on Mars in the game. At that time the club was hoping to start construction in summer 2005 and open the ground in 2007, but finance has not yet been obtained and the likely completion date is not currently known. [3].

Despite pressure from Governmental and funding bodies, Liverpool refused to share the new ground with their local rivals Everton and "final" talks on a groundshare failed in January 2005. id Software would have been putting themselves under legal liability if they used the technique in the finished game, so to defuse the issue, id Software agreed to license Creative Labs sound technologies in exchange for indemnification against lawsuits. On July 30, 2004, Liverpool City Council granted the club planning permission to build a new 60,000 seat stadium, nearby at Stanley Park. The patent dealt with a technique for rendering shadows called Carmack's Reverse, which was developed independently by both John Carmack and programmers at Creative Labs. Signed on a free-transfer from Manchester City until the end of the season, when an extension to his contract will be considered. A week before the game's release, it became known that an agreement to include EAX audio technology in Doom 3 reached by id Software and Creative Labs was heavily influenced by a software patent owned by the latter company. On 27th January 2006, Benítez pleased the vast majority of Liverpool FC fans and re-signed the prominent former striker Robbie Fowler. Most of them are quite large and typically require 1+ hours each on a player's first run through the game.

The game was decided by a single goal scored by São Paulo midfielder Mineiro. There are 27 levels in Doom 3. Liverpool's final opponents were to be São Paulo. By the same source, it is in the top 10 PC games of 2004. Goals coming from Peter Crouch (2) and Steven Gerrard. As of August 17, Doom 3 has garnered an average review score of 88%, according to 81 media outlets on GameRankings.com. The semi-final was played against Deportivo Saprissa, which Liverpool won 3-0. Several games are already being developed using a modified Doom 3 engine, including Quake 4, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Castle Wolfenstein (tentative title) and Prey.

Liverpool joined the competition at the semi-final stage, courtesy of a bye. id Software also typically benefits from licensing the engine to other developers. As the UEFA Champions League 2005 winners, Liverpool earned the right to represent UEFA in the FIFA Club World Championship 2005 held in Japan. The financial success was bolstered by the near-record number of pre-orders placed for the game. Liverpool trailed 0-3 at half time, but three goals in the second half forced extra time and then a penalty shoot out, which Liverpool won. Despite its apparent 'flaws', the game was still a success for id Software, with the planned total revenue estimated by Activision at $20 million. in the semis, the Reds met Italian side AC Milan in the final. The people sound like they're in a recording booth."[2].

After eliminating hot favourites Juventus in the quarter finals and English rivals Chelsea F.C. Ken Levine, lead designer of System Shock 2 said of the logs in Doom 3 "It amazed me when I played DOOM 3 that they didn't mix their recordings into the ambient space of the world. However, the season had a glorious ending at the European Cup final in Istanbul. Interestingly, it has been commented that normally the type of gamer who has played System Shock 2 is the breed of gamer who would be expected to be critical of the comparatively simple Doom 3. Spaniard Rafael Benítez took over from Houllier, but erratic league form quickly put paid to their Premiership title hopes, eventually finishing fifth. Using logs like this harkens back to the age of System Shock 2 and aids the progression of the story. Houllier guided Liverpool to another League Cup triumph in 2003, Houllier and Liverpool parted by mutual consent at the end of the 2003-04 season after failing to bring the Premiership title to Anfield and not looking like making any further progress, despite having spent large sums of money. Another rebuttal concerns the story of Doom 3, which is done through the use of audio and video logs.

Liverpool finished Premiership runners-up in 2001-02, their best league finish since 1991, but suffered a humiliating defeat in the League Cup Third Round at the hands of Grimsby Town. Additionally, muzzle flashes can be enabled for marginally better visibility while firing. Houllier at last won the faith of the club's fans, who were delighted at this triumph. Modifying the weapons to project light, results in the mystery of "the unknown" to be less potent and frightening. The likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard and Sami Hyypia contributed to an excellent season in which the Reds finished third in the Premiership (thus qualifying for the Champions League) as well as completing a unique treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup, followed by the FA Community Shield and European Super Cup later in 2001. In the default game (without any modifications added), almost every monster has glowing eyes, or some aspect of bioluminescence which offers a target for the player. 2000-01 was Liverpool's best season for many years. In addition, the flashlight is a key element of Doom 3's gameplay: the player must balance between seeing the enemy, and defeating it.

They would have qualified for the Champions League had it not been for a 1-0 defeat at Bradford on the final day of the season. Since Doom 3 is a remake of the original Doom – a game which did not have high-end concepts common in today's more complex games – remaking Doom with too much complexity would remove a key component that made Doom popular in the first place. But 1999-2000 was a bit better, as Liverpool finished fourth and qualified for the UEFA Cup. Many gamers claim the apparent "shortcomings" are not shortcomings at all, but are integral to the gameplay id determined to display for Doom 3. The Reds finished eighth in the Premiership - their lowest finish since 1994 - and failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup despite Robbie Fowler's return from injury and Michael Owen's continued impressive showings. For example, an often mentioned feature of Doom 3, per-pixel lighting and stencil shadowing, had already been implemented in many games released in 2003, even a budget title from Activision Value called Secret Service: Security Breach. Evans quit in November after failing to settle into the partnership. Some critical reviewers consider that the technological level of Doom 3 is similar to that of other games of 2004, and that features such as bump mapping had already become industry standard.

The Liverpool directors brought in Frenchman Gérard Houllier to work alongside Roy Evans for the 1998-99 season after Houllier had gained fame as the Technical Director of France's World Cup winning side in 1998. This weapon appears in the Doom 3 expansion known as Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, which has drawn the ire of those who feel id is pandering to Half-Life 2 fans. 1997-98 saw Liverpool finish third in the Premiership, but the big news of the season was the emergence of brilliant young striker Michael Owen - the Premiership's equal top scorer with 18 goals who became the youngest full England international at the time and also won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award. Ironically, Doom 3 was said to have a "Gravity Gun" item designed long before Half-Life 2, but was not in the game proper. They had been hoping to win the Cup Winners Cup for the first time, but defeat at the hands of Paris St Germain in the semi finals put paid to these hopes. For example, the common complaint about Doom 3's lack of environment interactivity could be considered a subtle complaint that Doom 3 doesn't have a Half-Life 2-style "Gravity Gun", a weapon which can pick up small items in the world and throw them around. Liverpool led the Premiership at several stages during the 1996-97 season, but in the end they finished fourth and had to settle for a UEFA Cup place. Some have argued that since Doom 3 was released before Half-Life 2, many have come to expect things from it that they previously had expected from Half-Life 2.

The club's youth system had produced two excellent players in Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman, and including Jamie Redknapp and Stan Collymore (all of whom went on to play for England), looked to be the most potent attacking force in the Premier League in the mid-late 1990s. During development, Doom 3 was often compared with the equally anticipated Half-Life 2. Still, Liverpool were recognised as a top team once again, and were starting to attract top players once more. It has been argued that many of these criticisms are based on expectations for other types of FPS games. But they finished third in the Premiership behind champions Manchester United and runners-up Newcastle, and lost 1-0 to Man United in the FA Cup final. The most often named gameplay shortcomings of the game are:. Liverpool continued to progress the following season, being within a shout of the domestic double right up to the final few weeks of the season. Few games have polarized gaming as much as Doom 3 has, causing the two groups reactions to the game to be wildly different.

Boot room veteran Roy Evans took over from Souness, and in his first full season (1994-95) they finished fourth in the Premiership and won the League Cup. It is possible, but difficult, to achieve smooth gameplay at 1024x768 with detail set to high on a machine with 512 MB RAM. However, there was a promising young striker emerging in the shape of 18-year-old Robbie Fowler. This could, however, be avoided by reducing the texture size to medium, which was recommended for video cards with 128MB of RAM in any case, and keeping the resolution at 800x600 or 640x480. Ian Rush was now the only player remaining from the Paisley era, and the current squad was mostly made up of unfashionable players who just a few seasons earlier would never have pulled on a red jersey. Having 512MB RAM or lower would cause the game to freeze for lengthened periods of time when entering a new room, due to the textures being preloaded into the limited memory. But his only success as manager at Liverpool came with the FA Cup in 1992, and he was finally ousted in January 1994 after a shock FA Cup defeat at home to Bristol City and three years of reckless spending on players who often failed to live up to expectations. While the game's packaging declared that 384MB RAM was required to run the game, it was highly recommended that around 1GB RAM be present in the machine.

Souness had captained Liverpool during the glorious 1980s before taking the Rangers manager's job in 1986, and had brought a host of titles to Ibrox. As of early 2006 the best videocard for Doom 3 is two Geforce 7800 GTX 512MB's running in SLI mode. Long serving coach Ronnie Moran spent two months in temporary charge of the team, but by the time his successor Graeme Souness arrived the league title and F.A Cup had been whisked away by Arsenal and Tottenham respectively. A 6600GT however will also easily play the game on the same hardware at those speeds under the same conditions in most situations. His Liverpool side looked well placed to win the domestic double, but he quit the club and blamed the pressures of management for his decision to leave. A high-end CPU (based on those available in 2004 or later) coupled with the GeForce 7800 graphics card or ATI's Radeon X1800 benchmark well over 100 frame/s in 1024x768 resolution. Kenny Dalglish stunned the football world by resigning as Liverpool manager in February 1991. However, to make full use of the game engine, newer hardware is required.

Liverpool have had some glorious moments during the years that followed the 1990 title glory, but life at Anfield has never been the same without the championship trophy in the club's boardroom. The Macintosh version runs satisfactorily even on a 1.25 GHz G4 PowerBook with an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 GPU. He helped them win their 18th league title in 1989-90, but nobody could have guessed at the time that it would be their last championship success to date. It was widely reported on various review sites that a minimally recommended 1.5 GHz processor coupled with a GeForce 2 MX graphics card achieved satisfactory performance with the game (about 20 frame/s in low resolution). Ian Rush had rejoined Liverpool after one miserable season with Juventus, and scored twice in the 1989 FA Cup final. Early reports also indicated that there was supposed to be legacy support for the widespread DirectX 7 technology such as the Radeon 7200 and GeForce 2, but at release, the GeForce 4 MX was the only DirectX 7 chip officially supported. A 96th fan died nearly four years later having never regained consciousness. Early during development it was widely expected that the recommended video cards would be DirectX 8 capable, such as Radeon 8500/9000 and GeForce 3 (where Doom 3 made its debut in 2001), but nearing release those cards only constituted near-minimum requirements.

94 fans died that day and 95th fan died in hospital from his injuries four days later. For a modern game with an advanced graphics engine, Doom 3 had suitably high minimum system requirements. Hundreds of Liverpool fans were trampled on the terraces at Hillsborough. A frequent phenomenon throughout the original Doom 3 game is the "Monster Closet", where a door disguised as a wall suddenly opens and an enemy issues forth in an attempt to startle the player. But the season was overshadowed by the Hillsborough Stadium tragedy which had struck the club in the F.A Cup semi-final. Almost the whole game takes place indoors, which provides many opportunities for surprise. A last minute goal from Arsenal's Michael Thomas (who later joined Liverpool) gave the league title to the visitors because they had a superior goal difference. To achieve best effect, this usually happens in a dark room or the room darkens suddenly.

They lifted the F.A Cup with another victory over Everton in the final, but the league title slipped out of their grasp in the last minute of their last game of the season at home to Arsenal. Emergence of stronger enemies (bosses) is backed up by new lighting effects and/or cutscenes. Liverpool came close to repeating the double once more in 1988-89. On the other hand, exploring new areas backgrounded by theme music makes the player expect a monster appear behind each corner. Wimbledon, meanwhile, had been First Division members for just two seasons and had only joined the league 11 years earlier. Surprising ambushes usually from dark places tend to shock player and put his reflexes into test. Liverpool had by this stage been one of England's strongest sides for more than 20 years. Creatures may appear just as well unexpected as anticipated.

The downside of the season was a shock 1-0 defeat at the hands of Wimbledon in the F.A Cup final. This did not go unnoticed however; the staff were becoming increasingly suspicious of the massive amount of power being drawn (The huge energy consumption caused frequent overloads on power-grid components). New winger John Barnes was credited with the Player of the Year Award. To rectify this, the power grid was illegally tampered with, diverting a significant amount of power from the non-critical systems (Such as Lighting) of the rest of the facility to allow the machinery to sustain the portals for a much longer time. There were fears that Liverpool's glory days were over when striker Ian Rush was sold to Juventus in a £3.2million deal, but his £750,000 successor John Aldridge silenced the critics by topping the club's goalscoring charts in the 1987-88 season and inspiring the Reds to another championship success - this time achieved with just two defeats all season. The portals to Hell could only be sustained for a short period of time, which was nowhere near enough to conduct any serious experiments. 1986-87 was trophyless as Dalglish's men finished league runners-up to Everton and lost to Arsenal in the League Cup final. The in-game story explanation for the pitch-darkness is as follows.

They also beat neighbours Everton 3-1 in the F.A Cup final to become only the third team to win the league championship/F.A Cup double in the 20th century. It also heavily relies on lighting effects to set the mood. His first season in charge could not have been better, as the Reds fought off competition from Everton, West Ham United and Manchester United to win the league title. Most of the levels are very dark, to create the feeling of helplessness and scare the player. Fagan handed over the reins to striker Kenny Dalglish, who had established himself as a world class player and now wanted to prove himself as a top manager. The most important element in the gameplay and action of Doom 3 is the atmosphere. The sequel of the tragedy was a 5-year ban on English clubs in European football, while Liverpool had to serve an extra year once all other English clubs were readmitted. The ending scene shows the sole surviving marine (and, it is presumed, myriad other Mars City personnel who survived the onslaught) being rescued by the fleet, and Betruger reincarnated as a dragon-like demon called the Maledict.

Some Liverpool fans were later convicted on manslaughter charges relating to the tragedy. There he used the Soul Cube to defeat "Hell's strongest warrior", the horrific Cyberdemon, and seal the portal. But the disappointment of the defeat was irrelevant, as 39 spectators - nearly all Juventus fans - were crushed to death during crowd trouble before the kick off. With the Gurardian of Hell defeated the player took the Soul Cube back through the teleporter to Mars, where he learned that while his actions had made Betruger unable to use the teleporter technology, a natural portal to Hell had been opened at the site of the alien ruins. The Reds had a rare trophyless season as they lost 1-0 to Juventus in the European Cup Final at Heysel Stadium in Brussels. The marine fought his way through them and defeated The Guardian of Hell, a gigantic, blind demon which uses smaller creatures named seekers to "see". Having lost to neighbours Everton in the race for the league title, Fagan decided to retire and wanted to go out on a high with the European Cup. Betruger used the teleporter technology to transport the marine to Hell, where he hoped the hordes of Demons could defeat him.

Fagan's second season as manager was his last - and it had a traumatic ending. He also learned of the Soul Cube, and the portal to Hell where it was held. Veteran coach Joe Fagan moved up to the manager's seat on Paisley's retirement, and his first season at the helm saw Liverpool become the first English club to win three major trophies in a single season - the league title, the League Cup and the European Cup. He learned that Betruger planned to wipe out the reinforcements that were on their way and use their ships to take the demons to Earth and conquer it. They included Graeme Souness, Ian Rush, Alan Hansen and arguably the greatest player to ever wear Liverpool colours, Kenny Dalglish who is also a Celtic legend. One man, the marine who the player controls, survived that attack and fought his way through the facility. Under Paisley, a new era of stars emerged. Most marines who survived the first attack were wiped out by the demons and the undead Mars security forces in a matter of hours.

He won a total of 21 trophies, including three European Cups and three successive league titles, during his spell as manager and ended his career on a high with the league championship and League Cup double. Their attack left most of the Mars City population either dead or zombified slaves. Bob Paisley was manager of Liverpool F.C from 1974 until 1983, and during those nine years he became one of the greatest managers ever to take charge of an English club. Under his direction the demons again invaded Mars, confident that the only key to their defeat lay safe in their hands. Shankly ignored these pleas and joined the club's fans on The Kop as a spectator, while he handed over his managerial duties to Bob Paisley. Betruger then took the Soul Cube into Hell and apparently made some kind of deal with the creatures there. The club's players and fans tried to persuade him to carry on, and a local factory even threatened to go on strike. A general sense of paranoia and fear spread throughout the facility, leading many workers to request a greater Marine presence and/or weaponry accesible by themselves.

They won the FA Cup again a year later, but Shankly stunned the footballing world soon afterwards by announcing his retirement. Betruger and his team, frequently reported strange phenomena and unlikely industrial accidents. Liverpool made their first impact on the European game in 1973 with a UEFA Cup triumph, as well as winning another league title that season. Scientists and workers, unaware of the nature of the work being performed by Dr. By now Shankly was one of the most highly rated managers in the game, and his squad contained some of the finest players in England - Roger Hunt, Ian St John and Ron Yeats to name but a few. The portal experiments also had strange and disturbing effects on the Mars City research facility where the experiments were conducted. A year later Liverpool regained their championship crown. Discovering that they opened a gate to Hell, scientists decided to explore further (encouraged by the head scientist, Malcolm Betruger), sending teams in and even capturing living specimens from the realm at great loss of life.

They failed to retain the championship trophy the following season but compensation came in the form of a first-ever FA Cup. The UAC, discovering the Soul Cube and the warnings, used them to invent the same teleporter technology. In 1964, Liverpool lifted the league championship. Consequently, the demons want to reclaim Earth. In his third season as manager they won the Second Division championship and were promoted to the top flight where they have remained ever since, never finishing below eighth in the league. It's stated that the demons once inhabited Earth in an unknown context, but lost possession of it due to an unknown cause. Bill Shankly became Liverpool manager in 1959 and over the next 15 years he transformed them into one of the finest club sides in Europe. They then teleported to an unknown location, fleeing Mars; there are hints that at least some of them fled to Earth, and that humans descended from them.

Over a decade of mediocrity was to follow. Having done so, the remainder of the alien race constructed warnings to any who visited Mars, warning them not to recreate this technology; to avoid opening another gate to Hell. In 1946-7, the first season after World War 2, Liverpool were surprise league champions. This cube, powered by the souls of almost every being of this alien race, was used by their strongest warrior to defeat and contain the demons in Hell. In 1922, and again in 1923, captained by England full back Ephraim Longworth, Liverpool won the league. Quickly invaded by demons, this alien race created and sacrificed themselves to a weapon known as the Soul Cube. On April 25, 1914, Liverpool made their first appearance in the FA Cup final at Crystal Palace but lost 1-0 to Burnley. They realized an important fact all too late, however; the route the teleporter took passed through Hell.

In 1901 Scottish international Alex Raisbeck was the first Liverpool captain to collect the Football League Championship, and Liverpool were league champions again in 1906. Tablets found at these sites record how an ancient Martian race developed a form of teleporter technology. Main article: History of Liverpool F.C.. The story of Doom 3 surrounds the discovery of ancient ruins underneath Martian soil. . Video booths and televisions give planetary news, corporate propaganda, visitor information and technical data about the base. Helens. The messages explain the background story, show the feelings and concern of the people on the Mars base and reveal information related to plot and gameplay.

Liverpool Football Club is not to be confused with Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club which was formed in 1858 and is now known as Liverpool St. The messages are internal e-mails and audio reports sent between lab workers, administrators, maintenance staff, and security personnel at the Mars base. After Heysel, English clubs were withdrawn from European competition for a period of five years, six in the case of Liverpool. Similar to other science fiction action/horror games such as System Shock, System Shock 2 and Aliens versus Predator 2, hundreds of text, voice, and video messages are scattered throughout the base. The club was present at two of the biggest tragedies in European football — at Heysel in 1985 and Hillsborough in 1989. Unlike in previous id games, there are now cut scenes that give purpose and context for the player's actions. Liverpool were elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later. The game's events and atmosphere show a great deal of influence from George Romero's Living Dead series and James Cameron's Aliens (1986 film).

refused to recognise the team as Everton). id focused on retelling the story and creating a tense horror atmosphere. (after the F.A. In contrast to its earlier disdain for storytelling, this time id Software employed a professional science-fiction writer Matthew Castello to write the script and assist in story-boarding the entire game. but was changed to Liverpool F.C. Similar to the story of the original Doom, the game focuses on the marine who was transferred to Mars and sent out on a routine mission. The original name was to be Everton F.C. Italic text in this section is taken from the Doom 3 manual.

Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent. Other important features of Doom 3 engine were normal mapping and specular highlighting of textures, realistic handling of object physics, dynamic, ambient soundtrack and multi-channel sound. The club was founded on March 15, 1892 by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. This allowed an in-game computer terminal to perform more than one function, such as a readily apparent door-unlocking button, and a more obscure function allowing an astute player to unlock a nearby weapons locker. The club's home ground is the 45,362 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool. Rather than using a simple "use key", the crosshair acts as a mouse cursor over the screens allowing the player to use a computer in the game world. Since being founded in 1892, Liverpool is the only English team to have won the Champions league five times, 18 Football League titles as well as being the English club to have won the most number of UEFA Cups, European Supercups and English League Cups. To increase the interactivity with the game-world, id designed hundreds of high-resolution animated screens for in-game computers.

Liverpool Football Club (usually known simply as Liverpool) is an English football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, they are the current champions of Europe and the most successful English football team to date. To create a more movie-like atmosphere, id interspersed the gameplay with many in-game animated sequences of monsters ambushing the player or just lurking around. Calum Woods. A shortcoming of this approach is the engine's inability to render soft shadows and global illumination. Paul Willis. This allows lights to cast shadows even on non-static objects such as monsters or machinery, which was impossible with static lightmaps. James Smith. Rather than computing or rendering lightmaps during map creation and saving that information in the map data, most light sources are computed on the fly.

David Roberts. The key aspect of the Doom 3 graphics engine is the unified lighting and shadowing. Conal Platt. According to John Carmack, the lead graphics engine developer at id, the "tripod of features" in Doom 3 technology are:. Lee Peltier. Other factors contributing to the high demand for the pirated version were the gamers' expectations for Doom 3 and delayed release outside of the U.S. Michael Nardiello. As the game's focus is its single player mode, the need for a valid retail serial number for online multiplayer gaming was a weak deterrent against piracy.

Jordon Holmes. Two days before its official release, Doom 3 was released by pirate groups onto the Internet where it became possibly the fastest spreading pirated game ever. Adam Hammill. The game was released to the rest of the world on August 13, 2004 (except for Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, where official localisation was delayed and caused the game to be released about four months later, on December 10, 2004). Danny Guthrie. Due to high demand, the game was made available at select outlets at midnight on the date of release. James Frayne. Additionally, a Linux version was released on October 4, 2004.

Paul Barrett. on August 3, 2004. Charlie Barnett. Doom 3 was released in the U.S. Paul Anderson. Doom 3 achieved gold status on July 14, 2004, and a Mac OS X release was confirmed the next day on July 15, 2004. Ramon Calliste. However, none of those games managed to make Christmas season.

Danny O'Donnell. Originally, the game was planned for release around the same time as two other highly anticipated games, Halo 2 and Half-Life 2, in Christmas 2003. Godwin Antwi. According to some comments by John Carmack, the development took longer than expected. Miki Roque. The game was also shown at the subsequent E3 exhibitions in 2003 and 2004, although id Software's website was not updated to include the Doom 3 project until America's autumn in 2003. Jack Hobbs. Shortly after E3, a development version of the game leaked from ATI Technologies and quickly spread on the Internet.

Zak Whitbread (on loan to Millwall). It won five awards at E3 that year. Darren Potter (on loan to Southampton). In 2001 it was first shown to the public at MacWorld in Tokyo and was later demonstrated at E3 in 2002, where a 15 minute gameplay demo was shown in a small theater. Florent Sinama-Pongolle (on loan to Blackburn Rovers). The game was in development for four years. David Raven (on loan to Tranmere Rovers). After the reasonably painless confrontation (although artist Paul Steed, one of the instigators, was fired in retaliation) the agreement to work on Doom 3 was made.

Neil Mellor (on loan to Wigan Athletic). However, after the warm reception of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and the latest improvements in rendering technology, most of the employees agreed that a remake was the right idea and confronted Kevin and Adrian with an ultimatum: "Allow us to remake Doom or fire us" (including John Carmack). Carl Medjani (on loan to Metz). They thought that id was going back to the same old formulas and properties too often. Anthony Le Tallec (on loan to Sunderland). Kevin Cloud and Adrian Carmack, two of id Software's owners, were always strongly opposed to remaking Doom. Chris Kirkland (on loan to West Brom). This plan revealed controversy had been brewing within id over the decision.

Robbie Foy (on loan to Wrexham). In June 2000, John Carmack posted a plan [1] announcing the start to a remake of Doom using next generation technology. Salif Diao (on loan to Portsmouth). . Bruno Cheyrou (on loan to Bordeaux). A Doom movie, loosely based on the franchise, was released on October 21, 2005. Mark González (on loan to Real Sociedad). There is a Zboard available for this game.

First broadcast of BBC TV's Match of the Day: on the 22nd August 1964, playing against Arsenal; the BBC 2 broadcast was presented by Kenneth Wolstenholme [2]. An expansion, Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, developed by Nerve Software and co-developed by id Software, has been released. The six English players he has brought in are strikers Peter Crouch and Robbie Fowler, goalkeepers Scott Carson and David Martin, and youth players Jack Hobbs and Paul Anderson. The Xbox version is graphically similar (with less details) to the original but features an additional two player co-operation mode. As well as having a Spanish manager, there are 5 Spaniards in the current squad and 10 players in total brought to Liverpool directly from La Liga. The game was developed for Windows and ported to Linux in 2004, five months later, it was also released for Mac OS X (ported by Aspyr) and Xbox (co-developed by Vicarious Visions). has a strong Spanish influence. Set in 2145 in the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research center on Mars, it is a reimagining of the original Doom, with completely new graphics and game engine.

Under Benitez, today's Liverpool F.C. Doom 3 is a sci-fi horror first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by Activision. The late Pope John Paul II, who played as a goalkeeper in Poland like current No.2 keeper Jerzy Dudek, also professed a fondness for Liverpool, when he met the Polish keeper. 108. Celebrity fans of the club include the late DJ John Peel, Clive Owen, Ian McCulloch, Elvis Costello, Cherie Blair, and former World Heavyweight boxing Champion Mike Tyson. PC PowerPlay (January 2006), pp. Other popular chants include "Fields of Anfield Road" (to the tune of "The Fields of Athenry"), "Poor Scouser Tommy", "Liverbird Upon My Chest", "We've Won It Five Times", and "Ring of Fire". ^  "The Vault: System Shock 2".

Liverpool fans, singing "You'll Never Walk Alone," were featured in the Pink Floyd song, "Fearless.". — The company that co-developed Doom 3 multiplayer maps. [1]. Splash Damage, Ltd. Claims that the singing of You'll Never Walk Alone was started by fans of other clubs before those of Liverpool are widely dismissed as untrue. Matthew Castello (a science fiction writer who worked on the famous games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour) — (non-id) — Game script. Other German, Dutch and Northern Irish clubs have also adopted the song. Chris Vrenna — (one of the first members of Nine Inch Nails who wrote the music for Quake) — Music (Note: Trent Reznor left part-way through development and no longer has sound or music in Doom 3).

The song has since gained popularity among the fans of other clubs, most notably Celtic, Ajax and Milan. Kevin Cloud — Artist. The song "You'll Never Walk Alone", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and famously recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry & The Pacemakers, is the anthem of Liverpool FC (and is included in their crest) and has been sung since the early 1960s. Christian Antkow — Level designer. Liverpool's longest distance goal was scored by Xabi Alonso, 65 yards from goal. Malvern Blackwell — Level designer. 1994-5, 4 minutes, 32 seconds. Paul Jaquays — Level designer.

Quickest Premiership hattrick: Robbie Fowler vs Arsenal F.C. Patrick Duffy — GUI designer. 3 consecutive hat tricks: Jack Balmer 1946-7 (his only hat tricks). Adrian Carmack — Artist. Most career hat tricks: Gordon Hodgson 17 (1926-36). Tim Willits — Lead designer. Robbie Fowler, 1993/94. Jan Paul van Waveren — Game engine (physics).

Ian Rush, 1983/84. Robert Duffy — Lead programmer. John Evans, 1954/55. Jim Dose — AI and scripted scenes. Andy McGuigan, 1901/02. Fred Nilsson (worked on Antz and Shrek at DreamWorks as an animator) — Animation. These are:

    . Kenneth Scott — Lead artist.

    Only four people have scored 5 goals in one match. Seneca Menard — 3D modelling (formerly of DreamWorks). on September 12th 1989. Graeme Devine — Sound engine. Biggest league win: 9-0 v Crystal Palace F.C. Timothee 'TTimo' Besset — Network code, GtkRadiant, Linux conversions (formerly a contractee hailing from Paris, now part of the team in Texas). Ian Rush holds the record in Liverpool FC for most goals in all competitions for one season - he scored 47 goals in the 1983/84 season. John Carmack — Game engine (graphics).

    on September 17th 1974. as his form is absorbed into the Maledict back in Hell. Biggest win: 11-0 v Strømsgodset I.F. The player's character is rescued, Swann is found dead from his wounds, and Betruger is nowhere to be found.. Only 14 first team players were used in the 1965/66 season, when Liverpool won the League. In the following end cinematic sequence, the distress responder ships arrive and find the base in ruins. First European match: on August 17th 1964 they played against KR Reykjavik, Iceland, for the European Cup, and won 5-0 away. An exploratory player may find the hidden "id Software PDA", containing messages from several id Software employees.

    Roger Hunt has the most league goals for one season - in the 1961/62 season he scored 41 goals. Primary Excavation (Hellhole): Player must defeat the fourth and final boss, the Cyberdemon, and seal the Hell portal. on 11 December 1954 in Football League Division 2. The vagary makes another appearance at the end, and may come in a pair. Biggest defeat: 0-8 v Huddersfield in 1935 and 1-9 Birmingham City F.C. Caverns – Level 2: Features an ancient Martian temple. In 1910 Liverpool won the first match at Old Trafford beating Manchester United 4-3. Level 1 contains the oldest, original Mars base.

    December 1909 Newcastle United led 5-2 at Anfield, but the reds rallied to win 6-5. Caverns – Level 1: The player advances towards the primary excavation site, where the Hell portal is located. Rovers won 1-0, but six goals were disallowed during this game. This is the last level where the surface of Mars is visible. on September 5th 1896. Site 3: Where archaeological entities are brought to and where the research is done. Liverpool played against Blackburn Rovers F.C. After defeating Sabaoth, the player acquires Campbell's BFG.

    First Honour: in the 1893/94 season they became the Second Division champions. Sabaoth has integrated Campbell's BFG into his cybernetic tank-body, and uses it against the player. on 2nd September 1893 (Division 2). Central Processing (Server Banks): The player fights the third boss, Sabaoth, the demon transformation of Sergeant Kelly. League debut: 2-0 v Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C. Central Processing: The effects of the growth in the base are evident here, and Campbell is found dying at the end of the level, his BFG stolen by Sarge. FA Cup debut: September 1892 4-0 v Nantwich. Swann has also ordered Campbell to forsake him and pursue Sarge, who apparently is also a demon.

    Their side did not have one English player. Swann is found gravely wounded, and he tells the player that they're the only hope of stopping the invasion. They won 8-0. From hereon, there will be no more zombies other than commandos. Liverpool's first ever competitive game was in the Lancashire League against Higher Walton. Delta Complex (Revisited): The first and only appearance of ticks. 1957, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990, 2000. Hell: The player must trek through Hell and defeat the Guardian (second boss) to retrieve the Soul Cube.

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      . Betruger sends the player to Hell through the main teleporter after the battle. 1986. Delta Labs – Level 4: Hellknights are introduced in the cutscene. Super Cup Winners 1
        . Delta Labs – Level 3: The player is hot on the heels of Betruger and travels through several second-generation teleporter units. 1977, 2001, 2005. The Soul Cube backplot is revealed.

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          . Delta Labs – Level 2B: Archviles start showing up with their haunting cackles and screeches. 1964², 1965², 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977², 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986², 1988, 1989, 1990, 2001. Player encounters a Non-Player Character named Ian McCormick who reveals much about the activities that lead to the invasion. FA Community Shield Winners 14
            . Delta Labs – Level 2A: Player goes through the teleporter for the first time. 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003. Player must initiate power by turning on main reactor.

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              . Delta Labs – Level 1: This level has no demon altercations of any kind for quite some time upon entering it. 1996. Commando zombies first appear here. FA Youth Cup Winners 1
                . Monorail: Player must take it to reach the Delta Labs by monorail. 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001. The mancubus is introduced in a cutscene and cherubs make their first appearances.

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                  . If the player declined to transmit, Betruger calls them anyway. 1973, 1976, 2001. If the player issued the distress call in the Communications level, Betruger reveals that he will use the responder ships to invade Earth. UEFA Cup Winners 3¹
                    . Recycling – Sector 2: A trap is sprung on the player by Betruger, slowly filling the building with toxic gases. AC Milan. The Revenant is introduced in a cutscene, and this is the only level with toxic waste pools.

                    2005 3-3 (3-2 in penalty shootout) vs. Monorail Skybridge (Recycling – Sector 1): Where trash is processed in the UAC. AS Roma. Sarge orders the player to send the message, while Swann presses the player not to. 1984 1-1 (4-2 in penalty shootout) vs. Communications: Player confronts a dilemma, and must make decision to send or to not send the SOS transmission to Earth. Real Madrid. The berserk powerup appears for the first time.

                    1981 1-0 vs. The chainsaw zombie makes its first appearances here, whose spoils are definitely worth the fight. Club Brugge. The first cacodemon appears at the start. 1978 1-0 vs. Communications Transfer: There are many outdoor areas in this level. Borussia Mönchengladbach. Swann and Campbell give up trying to intercept the marines sent to transmit a distress call and travel by vehicle to the communications complex.

                    1977 3-1 vs. Some rooms are less claustrophobic but more acrophobic, and there is an abundance of plasma gun ammo. UEFA Champions League 5¹

                      . The lost soul is introduced in a cutscene and wraiths first appear here. 1893. Energy Processing (EnPro): Bravo Team cutscene. Lancashire League Champions 1
                        . There is the infamous "they took my baby" sequence, and the Vagary (first boss) appears at the end.

                        1894, 1896, 1905, 1962. Alpha Labs – Sector 4: Player must navigate either the EFR or the bridge. Football League Second Division Champions 4

                          . Alpha Labs – Sector 3: Contains a very hidden plasma gun and an optional chaingun. 1901, 1906, 1922, 1923, 1947, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990. There is a glimpse of the Bravo Team through a window. Football League titles 18¹
                            . Alpha Labs – Sector 2: Trites appear.

                            Maggots are introduced. Sector 1 houses the EPD (Elemental Phase Deconstructor), and the Hydrocon. Alpha Labs – Sector 1: Built in 2095 and located on Site 2, Alpha is the UAC's center research lab. After being dismissed by Betruger, Swann resorts to his backup plan, involving Swann's former marine bodyguard Campbell and copious use of a BFG-9000.

                            Player again eavesdrops on a conversation between Betruger and Swann. The growth taking over the base is seen here first, and this is where monsters start teleporting in. UAC Administration: The pinky (demon) is introduced at a cutscene. Mars City (2): The same level as the Introduction, but after the demon invasion.

                            The imp is introduced at a cutscene. The shooting begins here. In the Communications Building, things start to go awry. Mars City Underground: A shorter tutorial covering a few more features in the game.

                            Malcolm Betruger. The player eavesdrops on a heated conversation between a UAC executive named Elliot Swann and the unscrupulous research director Dr. (Welcome to Mars!) The marine (player) also picks up his first assignment here from Sargeant Kelly ("Sarge"). Introduction (Mars City 1): A short tutorial on the basic features of the game.

                            No official cooperative gameplay in the PC version whereas the original Doom contained a cooperative mode. A small multiplayer deathmatch mode of only a few people, although Doom 3 was attempting to focus on the single player experience. Somewhat limited use of physics. Poor monster AI, over-reliance on scripted sequences;.

                            Somewhat stale storytelling techniques, forcing the player to read or listen to messages by hiding access codes in them, and a shortage of cut-scenes providing story exposition;. No ability to use the flashlight and the weapon at the same time (known as "No duct tape on Mars" problem), whereas today many real-life weapons have hands-free light attachments (however, many light-mods on the internet add a flashlight to the guns);. Repetitive gameplay, similar linear levels during parts of the game. Reliance on traditionally overused horror techniques such as pitch black darkness, limited use of the flashlight and stock horror movie clichés, which some feel makes the game frustrating to play rather than scary or atmospheric;.

                            The Soul Cube is not included in the standard Doom 3 multiplayer maps, but can be found and used late in the game and is a vital item. Upon being charged, the player is alerted by the Cube's spoken advice, "Use us." After use, the Cube must be recharged again with 5 kills. The Soul Cube becomes "charged" for use after the player has killed 5 enemies, and any more will not further charge the Cube. Employment of the Soul Cube releases a whirling blade-type weapon that automatically homes in on the enemy with greatest health, delivering 1000 hit points to the target (instantly killing all but the bosses), and restores the player's health according to the health of its victim prior to the attack.

                            Soul Cube – The Soul Cube is a supernatural weapon whose provenance is explained by a detailed backstory within the plot of the game. The chainsaw is not included in the standard Doom 3 multiplayer maps. Most enemies fall to the sawing in mere seconds. Chainsaw – Very powerful mêlée weapon with a blade that never dulls.

                            The BFG is not found in the standard Doom 3 multiplayer maps, but is still modified to fire a slower projectile in multiplayer. Caution: the BFG 9000 can be overcharged and will instantly kill the user if done. When the microchip shatters, the projectile automatically detonates. Each projectile beams a damaging ray to enemies and contains a microchip core to determine friend or foe.

                            One fully-charged blast will overkill almost all enemies on a direct hit, and most cannot survive within a few meters (nonconforming to the 15 meters described by the UAC video). BFG 9000 (Note: BFG is literally an acronym for "Big Fucking Gun", although the Doom movie lists it as the "Bio Force Gun") – An extremely powerful energy charge weapon very capable of room clearing. In single player, the additional height gained by rocketjumping is very small. Rocket Launcher – Launches a fast projectile that deals great damage to the victim of a direct hit and adds splash damage to those near the explosion.

                            Because of its large shot size, the plasma gun is useful for putting up "flak", which can render ineffective a wide variety of projectiles. In multiplayer, the plasma gun's clip size has been reduced to 30 but its damage per projectile has become greater. However, the projectile velocity has been considerably reduced, making it an unsuitable weapon for long range. Doom 3s version of the plasma gun is similar to that of the original Dooms for the latter, and also as it is rapid-fire (albeit not quite as rapid) without any spread.

                            Plasma Gun – Has a clip size of 50 and shoots blue orbs of plasma. In multiplayer, the player starts with two handgrenades. There is no danger of one being obstructed by or detonating on the user due to proximity. Handgrenade – A very bouncy type (three quarters bouncyness), these yellow, cylindrical grenades detonate either on an enemy or three seconds after being primed.

                            In multiplayer, the chaingun's spread has been reduced to a mere 1 degree, thus making it the prime long-range weapon. Chaingun – This is a great short to medium range rapid-fire weapon as each bullet inflicts twice as much damage as the machinegun, but however also has more spread. In RoE multiplayer, the machinegun is the player's starting weapon. MachinegunA high rate of fire, good accuracy and excellent power makes this a perfect weapon for medium and long-range enemies and quick targetting. With only 1 degree of spread and a good clip size of 60, the machinegun is the best weapon for dishing out a string of headshots that can bring most enemies down in seconds.

                            In multiplayer, the shotgun's spread has been reduced to half (11 degrees), greatening its effectiveness at range. However, the great damage that the shotgun can inflict at point-blank makes it one of the most useful weapons, capable of dispatching most standard enemies with one well-aimed shot. Use sparingly for medium or long-range targets. Due to this weapon's extremely high spread (22 degrees in single player), the shotgun is a very poor weapon outside short range. ShotgunThe weapon of choice for close combat.

                            In multiplayer, the pistol is the player's starting weapon. The pistol is commonly used to conserve other types of ammunition. It's highly accurate and provides solid stopping power without expending too much ammo. Contrary to what is written in the manual, in the actual gameplay, the pistol is automatic, meaning it is possible for the player to simply hold the fire button in order to shoot multiple rounds. PistolStandard marine issue semi-automatic pistol.

                            The combat differences from fists are: double the damage, slightly more range, but slower rate of fire. Also works as a club in close combat. Fortunately, the flashlight's battery is infinite and so is its durability for bashing enemies. FlashlightPower fluctuations and maintenance issues continue to create poor lighting at the UAC Facility and flashlights are now required for all security forces. The fists can also fell an opponent in a single blow when the player is energized by a Berserk powerup.

                            In multiplayer, in addition to inflicting damage, one can rob another player's weapon by landing a punch. FistsThere's nothing like a little hand-to-hand combat. An entertaining way to kill a foe, or even an ally. GUI surfaces that add extra interactivity to the game. Complex animations and scripting that show off the real-time, fully dynamic per-pixel lighting and stencil shadowing.

                            Unified lighting and shadowing.