Posted on: August 2, 2016

syscrusher

Games: 88 Reviews: 43

Classic FPS

I've played tons of FPSs since the days of original Doom and while there are so many solid titles in this genre, Quake 2 and Quake 3 Arena remain challenging and playable to this day. The former is a great single player campaign with multiplayer support. The later remains possibly the best simulated and actual multiplayer title of all time. GOG's versions includes expansion packs and mods. Best of all, they're free of DRM and come optimized for ease of installation and control. Just install and play! These two games represent exactly what GOG is all about.

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Posted on: June 1, 2020

PatrickCT

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Games: 318 Reviews: 13

brilliant old school twitch shooter

Played this a few years after release, when it was still extremely popular. No story, purely multiplayer; singleplayer is simulated multiplayer against lethal bots. If you're looking for a fast, streamlined game to test your reflexes and deathmatch skills, this is it. Although the characters are low-poly, the graphics still hold out, primarily due to the textures and lightning. Certainly, some of them were jaw-dropping at the time, invoking a justifiable accusation that the game was as much a deliberate advertisment for the Q3 engine as it was an arena shooter. Speaking of the engine, it's scalability is impressive. Turning off features sequentially enabled gameplay on weaker and weaker cards in an almost linear fashion, until it would run on almost any card that did texture-mapped triangles. John Carmack's magic! But that's something of no concern for even laptop bog-standard gpus today. Although Tribes revolutionised openworld multiplayer deathmatch and team gameplay modes, Q3 and UT pushed these right into the mainstream in 1999.

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Posted on: June 24, 2022

catbox_fugue

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Games: Reviews: 22

q3e open source multiplayer

i must have spent more time playing Q3 than any other game... always striving to win the multiplayer combat experience CTF was my goto, 3wave maps, osp mod... lots of experimental things like headhunter, instagib, excessive, killerbees, some kind of RTS tank mod?! at its height there were always players, new ideas, new things. things that make Quake3 relevant today: - modding - open source - community (shifted to quakelive?) (same as all the early idtech: open source GPL) on linux i play ioquake3 & quake3e (enhanced) these even run fluidly on a raspberry pi 4b dedicated servers keep the game alive. remember dedicated servers?! Arena style shooters have evolved since the late 90s early 2000s... that doesnt mean the originals are less than before. QuakeLive experimental browser game (free) was quite an upgrade. when my QL account was wiped for "inactivity" i gave up on that avenue. i earned a rare quakecon badge and it was gone, i never looked back.

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Posted on: July 1, 2019

PsychoticPemdas

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Games: 13 Reviews: 1

The ultimate online fps experience

This game is what all multiplayer online fps game should strive to be. Quake 3 is a fast pace fps that will keep you on your toes and keep your eyes pealed all the time. You have to keep moving and find weapons and upgrades before other players do in big complex maps and kill everyone. This is the original online fps experience all others are cheap chinese knock-offs 8/10

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Edited on: October 6, 2025

Posted on: October 28, 2024

Procommenos

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Games: 58 Reviews: 4

Q3A is the best battle arena game.

Back in the 90s popular music had Blur vs Oasis and FPS games had Quake3 Arena vs Unreal Tournament. Honestly my brother prefered UT, but I just feel Q3A is better, though I accept that both are very good, high intensity, battle arena shooter games. Now, while UT had the greater content, I always prefered the level design in Q3A and for me, the Plasma rifle is still the best version I have been blessed to play. I prefer the Q3A Plasma rifle even more than the one in Doom Eternal and that is saying something! For comparison, I play UT a few times per year, but I still play Q3A every month and I will continue to do so for many years to come because the game play loop is so delightful. Highly recommended. Enjoy!

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