The Artifact



The Artifact is the equivilant of the Soul Cube from Doom 3. It is a demonic heart-shaped device that was initially designed to aid the forces of Hell, but is used by the nameless Marine in Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil.

The Artifact uses human souls versus demon ones, and requires you to activate it near three human corpses. This will absorb the souls and charge up the Artifact.

The Artifact itself has no attack capability, but in some respects is far superior to the Soul Cube. It has the ability to give the player a period in which he becomes super fast, an unstoppable melee attack for a short period of time and temporary invulnerability. These abilities are unlocked each time the player defeats a certain boss monster.

Once more than two are discovered, the player cannot choose which one is activated. Instead, it activates all the powers currently unlocked at the same time, meaning someone with a charged Artifact later in the game has the potential to become a lightning fast, invicible death machine that can rip apart a Hell Knight with his bear hands.