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Good here and there, But UT has better replay value

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: December 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

After playing the full version of QIII and the Demo of Unreal Tournament, I would have to say that there are many areas of GT's Blockbuster Multiplayer game that beat the heck outta Quake III.

Graphics: Quake III requires a powerhouse computer to milk out the graphics pictured on the outside of your box. Unless you have a PIII or 450 or higher PII with a good Riva TNT 2 Ultra board or better, don't expect much. UT was so much better graphically on my 350 PII than Quake III, not to mention that the level layout in UT is awesome.

The Game: Single player in QIII is both nonexistant and totally horrid. This, for activision's standards, could have been so much better, and as for multiplayer, Quake III has but one option...deathmatch. UT has much better options and a large variety of game types other than deathmatch (i.e. capture the flag, domination, team deathmatch).

My Opinion: I gave this a 3 stars because although Quake does have some nice touches like character skins, awesome weapons, nice sound effects and textures, and other things here and there...There are just too many things that are wrong about this game, when compared to UT, to rate it any higher. The single player, the multiplayer, the interface, the levels, and many other areas of UT, even just from what I saw in the Demo of UT, are much better laid out.

The Good: Lives up to the Quake rep.

The Bad: Very little Replay, Hardware Reqs too high

Recommendation: If your computer is NextGen and you love the Quake series for the Multiplayer, then you'll enjoy this game. If you're looking for a good quality game with high replay value and awesome gameplay, For the love of god stay away from QIII and get Unreal Tournament. Save yourself the Agony! GET UNREAL TOURNAMENT...Enjoy!

Fight!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 20
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quake III Arena provides an awesome gaming experience, no question. The game engine is very impressive - the player models, architecture, dynamic atmosphere (stormy skies, water, lava, mist), power-ups, weapons and weapon effects are all rendered quickly and in amazing detail, even with the lower-end graphics settings selected.

The interesting option that id software have taken with Quake III Arena is that they've created a game uniquely orientated towards groups of gamers, playing together via Internet or (preferably) LAN. This group gaming experience is amazing - I play quite regularly with four or five friends, which makes for a lot of fun. When you get bored with the traditional free-for-all killing-everyone-in-sight style of play, you can opt instead for team-based play, which adds a whole new dimension to the game - "Capture The Flag" is the best, in my humble opinion.

To cap it all, id have created and provided an impressive variety of levels with the game - gothic style, high-tech, space-based, traditional lava-heavy Quake-look - every one is markedly different, and this range makes every level feel like a separate game. When you add to this the high-quality custom user-designed levels that are popping up every day on sites like planetquake.com, it makes for a gaming experience that can't be beaten.

I highly recommend Quake III Arena - and I can't wait for the new 'Team Arena' mission pack that id are due to release soon!

It's no cigar

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 20
Date: March 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I spent countless company hours playing Doom and downloading new and interesting patches in the days before there was a world wide web (Remember Gopher and Lynx?). Since then I've greeted each new offering from iD with great anticipation and excitement which has always been rewarded until Q3A. What were they thinking?

This is Quake meets the American Gladiators--Wasn't that Turbo I saw with the cushioned-ended baton?I don't need a shotgun--I need a tennis ball cannon, some goofy-looking protective eyewear, and a retarded-looking helmet. Gone are the adventurous missions winding your way deeper into unknown enemy territory where after some serious combat and blood you might be lucky enough to stumble, bleeding and confused, into a secret that just might save your life. Instead, you now run, run, run, run-around in circles. It's like running a marathon on a 440 yd track--no mystery, no exploration, just blind atheleticism.

OK . . . Cool graphics. Nice out-of-the-box Internet interface. So what? It's all been wasted on a game that was ill-conceived the moment they abandoned their loyal fan base--blood-thirsty, sex-starved, eternally adolescent males with a taste for mayhem and destruction.

Almost fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you love DM, and I mean love DM to pieces, then Q3A is for you. It's Quakeworld with a breath of fresh new graphics. If you want something really exciting, then go somewhere else. I found the game to be very very boring. I've been playing Quake since pre Quake World and this game was a huge let down for me. There is a reason that everybody and their brother are playing TFC online....it's much more team oriented and interactive=fun. Straight DM is fun for about 10 min, for me at least. UT, Half-Life with TFC are 100 times more stimulating and fun that this game is.

Q3A represents a technological leap, but not a leap in gaming.

Read this to hear justifiable reasons why this game rules.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game contains some of the best technical glamor ever. I have a Pentium III@550MHZ, and a Nvidia TNT2 Ultra 3d excellerator card, it runs beautifully. Mind you, you need quite a good computer to get this game running, so if you have a lowish computer that maybe just makes the game requirements, it is not going to run good at all.So I wouldn't buy it. If you do have a relatively powerful computer, there are many reasons to buy it.

Many of you are comparing this to Unreal Tournament. I am almost positive that 75% of you who compare it don't own both games. I do, an I can tell you they are different. In UT, once you beat all the deathmatches, and you want to go replay them for more, it can be quite annoying. First, the highest frag limit is only 30, so it doesn't last as long, and once you are done with that level you have to go through the whole "Hall of Fame" type system again. While in Quake 3, If you want to just have some fun, you can control the frag limit (Unlimited/or the highest limit of 999). You can put your favorite characters in, and choose what stage you want. You can also every time you do this change difficulty. During the match you can also delete or add bots. This kind of freedom is not apparent in Unreal Tournament.

That was the "skirmish" mode, the regular game wear you climb a ladder of levels to the very last with XAERO has less freedom, but in UT, you don't have any freedom. There is also team deathmatch and capture the flag in Q3Arena. Although UT has more playing modes, they aren't as fun as deathmatch, and in the UT mode Assault, I can't figure out how to push buttons/levers!

There are some downsides to Q3A, for those cheaters out there, cheatin' is harder. The weapons are really cool, but there aren't as many in q3A as in UT. I hope I helped you in whether or not you choose to purchase this game. Oh, by the way, I'm hope I didn't make UT sound like the crappiest game ever, I'd give 5 stars. I just don't think it's right to compare the two. If you have something like 85-95 bucks, I'd buy both.

Great Game - Cheating Bots

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Id always does a great job. Graphics are wonderful and the action is insane. You need a fast system and a good video card or it will not be fun. Network connection is a must. The BOTs (AI characters) suck because they cheat. A BOT can see around corners, attack multiple targets, become harder to kill, scale in difficult based on your score and all sorts of other annoying features that human characters cannot do. I hope that Id has patch to fix the Bots.

Hope you have an ass kicking machine

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This was always bound to be a great title, the Quake name is like a way of printing money! but this time I am just not buying it! I don't have a very high spec PC and Quake 3 just runs like a dog! (it's a AMD K6-2 350 with 128Mb of RAM and an ATI Rage Magnum with 32Mb) my message to people out there with this spec of PC or below, don't bother with Q3, there is a very good alternative "Unreal Tournement" it's a brilliant title that runs sweet on my machine in 800x600 in 32 BIT colours (colors!). In summery Q3 Great title, but you will need an ass kicking spec.

Save Your Money For Unreal Tournment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 18
Date: January 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love Id, I am very glad they made this game but not because i actually wanted to play it. I knew that what we really got from Quake3 (Q3) was a new Engine. And thats important for the games to come in the next year and beyond. This graphics engine is excellent, John and the boys are masters of engine creation. But they have dropped the ball on EVERY other aspect of this game. The multiplayer connection in very difficult compared to Unreal Tournment (UT). UT makes finding and joining a game as easy as Diablo di so many years ago. I was looking forward to seeing some new guns in Q3, I figured since Unreal Trumped Quake with wepons (duel-mode of fire) they would have went with all new and creative wepons. Not so they are virtually unchanged, dont expect anything new here. For the rest of the review i will just list each game and which is better in that catagory:

Graphics - Q3 This new engine is awesome and kills the now dated Unreal engine.

Wepons- UT - A clear winner here Unreal has great wepons and you can fire each one in 2 ways with the right or left button and get a different effect for each. Effectively doubling your wepons. And the sniper rifle is a must have for a game like this I wouldnt want to live without one (even if I get my head blown off and have no idea where my enemy is from time to time)

Bots - UT wins hands down. If not just for the reason that the Q3 bots CHEAT. They can track you and that is not fair at all. UT bots can do hit and runs work ijn groups and lay down covering fire for their teamates. The UT AI is superior.

Levels - UT Wins again, while Q3 levels are beautiful the UT levels are ORIGINAL. They include battles on space stations and a space city where the gravity is reduced and you can jump from building to building. There are oils rigs a pirate ship interior of space ships etc. Much more diversity and FUN.

Multiplayer - UT wins again, the menu system for finding the game you want to play is superior to Q3. In UT You dont have to pick throught every server to find a team deathmatch for example you just click on the "Team deathmatch Tab" and you have a list of every server for that type of game. In Q3 they all are under one tab and you have to look for the type of game you want. I also had ALOT of lag with Q3, but in UT i never seem to get ANY lag (Using a 56k modem).

Bottom line is: if you you have a good GForce card and want a game that can actually use it then get Q3, but if you want to have fun and play the current king of FPS' then get UT you will not be dissiponted.

I almost forgot, UT has a built in system for logging ALL you frags and does so automatically. Just be sure to enter a password and pick a single user name, always join the games with the UT tracking "Enabled" (Most Games) and EVERY kill, death health pack etc will be permently and automatically recorded. A very nice feature.

Q3 Arena & your computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Q3 arena has some darn nice looking graphics but it is very taxing on your system to run at any resolution from 640*480 and up. I have a PII 400 w/Voodoo3 3000 which cranks out 109fps in Quake2 at 1024*768 but lags in Quake3 a little bit at 640*480 whenever I get into a small battle. I had to disable alot of the cool lighting effects and details to get a smooth framerate while fighting. I guess it is possible that I could need new drivers or somthing but I think my stuff is pretty well up to date.

Basically I just wanted to point out that if you are going to buy Q3 Arena make sure you have have quite powerful computer system if you require perfectly smooth gameplay. I know the box says a minimum of a 233 pentium but I would hate to be the fool trying to get that to work at much over 15fps.

Quake rules the cosmos!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 22
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Quake 3 introduces tons of new stuff while still being true to the series in gameplay. The game not being out, I have no idea whether or not it will be a big hit with me, but I have played the demo test, and I must say I am impressed. It is damn fun, something you can't say about Unreal Tournament. I give it 5.5 stars.

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