Ah, it's a shame to hear that those monsters got cut, but I'm sure the new ones will keep me on my toes just as much. :)  I went to an Electronics Boutique earlier today, and they already had the guide, so I did some slight nosing around and found out about the Soul Cube and got a closer look at the BFG.  The Soul Cube looked cool, but I wonder what it'll look like in first person.  (I didn't read about what it actually did either.)  To me, The BFG looked kind of shitty though.  I couldn't really make out any of the detail, and the handles looked like they suffered from the Q3 "small-grip, big weapon" syndrome.  I would have done some more nosing through the guide, but I wasn't planning on buying anything, and I didn't want to freeload so I headed home. :p

Uh... you do realize who that is right HardHat? Anyhow, speaking of bastards, DOOM 3 is now on all four LAN machines at my school, and a guy brought in a portable hard drive today and is going to make DVD copies. >.>  I'm trying to avoid playing it, but I already broke down and bought the strategy guide today just so I could check out all of the monsters.  The Cyber-Demon looks awesome as you have already seen. :p  And several of the boss monsters are very reminiscent of other monsters featured in the Quake series.  One thing I am kind of upset about however, is that the Mancubus is in DOOM 3 yet the Arachnotrons and Spider Masterminds are not.  In my opinion, the Mancubus looks like shit and from the description, isn't much different from some of the other enemies.  I'll find out though eventually. :)

Oh and I have some bad news for the hardcore DOOM fans.  From what I inferred from the description, the BFG 9K will not function the way it did in the original DOOM games.  Instead, the weapon can be charged before firing for greater damage and features what sounds like the tracer-beams in the BFG 10K. :(