Quake III Arena

There is something about the simplicity and blistering pace of Quake III that makes it simply impossible to put down for more than 24 hours. You may only need a 15-30 minute fix, but I can assure you that you WILL be coming back at least once a day. GRAPHICS: The graphics bright and colourful, and can be tuned to run smoothly on just about anything. SOUND: Sound effects are good, and weapons sound just like you imagine they would. From the crunchy blast of a shotgun to the futuristic "pew pew" of a plasma gun, the weapons sound just as satisfying as they are to use. The announcer could have used a few more lines of dialogue if you ask me (I do appreciate him rating my performance, but hearing him say "excellent" will get pretty old after about the hundredth time). On a much more specific note, there is something oddly, extremely satisfying about the tinny crunch sound that plays whenever you pick up an Armor Shard. Seriously, look it up on YouTube! GAMEPLAY: This game is fast, Seriously fast. This game is chugging-an-entire-bottle-of-Mountain-Dew-and-then-setting-a-land-speed-record-in-a-Bugatti-Veyron-powered-by-Usain-Bolt's-sweat fast. Playing Quake III for just 20 minutes will give your eyes quite a workout, and all other shooters will seem like they're being played in slow motion after about a week of playing this. OVERALL: Do I recommend Quake III? FRICK YES I DO!!! Is $20 a fair price for a game this old, even though it's one of the best shooters ever made? Not at all, you should definitely wait until it goes on sale for $9.99.

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.

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.

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.

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