Developer Vicarious Visions ported the game to the Xbox, releasing it on April 3, 2005. Doom 3 was originally released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004, adapted for Linux later that year, and ported by Aspyr Media for Mac OS X in 2005. Lusty Spider About the gameĭoom 3 (stylized as DOOM³) is a 2004 horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. A series of novelizations of Doom 3, written by Matthew J. The game was followed by Resurrection of Evil, an expansion pack developed by Nerve Software, in April 2005. Critics praised the game’s graphics and presentation, although reviewers were divided by how close the gameplay was to that of the original Doom, focusing primarily on simply fighting through large numbers of enemy characters. Doom 3 was a critical and commercial success with more than 3.5 million copies of the game sold, it is the most successful game by developer id Software to date.