Doom 3 Demo Prompts Filesharing Frenzy

Just hours after a demo of Doom 3 for Windows made its debut onto the Web, copies began to virulently spread throughout the game's vast network of enthusiast sites and peer-to-peer torrents. id Software has produced a playable demo of Doom 3's three level Mars City mission that is sure to push players' hardware to its limits.

The demo consists of 461 MB download and requires a recommended minimum of a 1.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon 1500, 384 MB of RAM, 2 GB of free hard drive space and either an nVidia GeForce 3 or ATI Radeon 8500 (or better) to play. The demo can be downloaded from FileForum.