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QUUUAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKEEEEEE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 49
Date: May 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Yes, Yes is this the best action shooter? Yes it is even better than Unreal Tournement becasue the graphics are better the gameplay is faster and cleaner it is the best shooter and for team battles it is the best.

No Windows 2000 support....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 45
Date: July 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am disgusted that Activision makes Quake III Arena compatable with Windows 2000 but does not with the expansion pack. That's pathetic! These guys at ID need to get their act together. I am sure the mission pack will be great but because of the morons at ID I will never know. If your running Windows NT or 2000 go buy a game worth your Money...Soldier of Fortune

This is kind of a review of win2000

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 40
Date: September 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

win 2000 is weak. id are justified in standing up to microsoft foolishness and the ideas for the mission pack jam + quake jams

want to see a good quake website then try the following

LAN Quake and Quake Skills http://fnf.20m.com General Quake http://www.planetquake.com

Does work with W2K

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: November 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Fun to play and DOES work on NT and W2K. I did actually play it. Folks seem to be confused.

The game Quake 3 should have been.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 25
Date: December 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I don't care what people think, all this is is an improved Quake 3. This is the game that Quake 3 should have been when it was released a year ago. Instead we were given a half finish, sophomoric menu driven, rehashed game...which was beaten out feature wise by the more polished Unreal Tournament. Now we have to pay AGAIN to get the finished product. I find if funny that the most popular online action game right now it Counterstrike, which is basically just a Half-life mod base on old Quake engine technology, yet it's destroying Quake 3 for players online. I'm glad Quake 3 is dead...because it died a long time ago.

Go Play Q2 Capture The Flag instead of buying Q3.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quake3 has been a major disappointment with the existing gaming community. It lacks specific elements from Q2 that has made the series popular. While Quake3 does have better protocol which allows for a 'smoother' online gaming experience, it fails in almost all other categories.

One of the great things that makes Q2 so much fun is its online, multiplayer capabilities. More specifically, the Capture the Flag scenario where you get to join a team and play Capture the Flag. This 'mod' as its called is extremely fun and is what made Q2 so incredibly popular. There are TONS of mods for Q2 but CTF remains the most popular one.

Unfortunately for Q3 it came with no Capture the Flag out of the box, which is an obvious miss for ID software. One thing that makes developers good and their games great is listening to the gaming community and unfortunately they missed the boat on this one.

Quake3 looks cartoonish, lacks the 'grapple' [a device where you can 'throw' the grapple on almost anything and pull yourself somewhere] and is basically a bunch of people running around and using 'jump' pads. What a cheap excuse for a sequel.

Again, if there IS anything decent about Q3 is its better internet protocol, which in turn is more likely the result of their new 'game engine'. While the game may be smoother for most people that play online games, Q3 is still not even close to exciting and Quake2 is still king of the heap.

jd

Quake 3 arena

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: January 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Save your money. All you will get from Quake 3 Arena is a massive headache.The graphics are incredible but the screen action is too quick to enjoy. The game also lacks any sort of a quest.

Quake 3 - to little, too late ?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack is how Quake 3 should have been - and if you'd have asked me a year ago how good it wasm I'd have probably given a better review.

However, it's surprising how "retro" it felt after playing Star Trek : Elite Force (also based on the Q3 engine) for the past couple of months.

Q3TA adds team mods to bring it into line with the latest on-line games. Some of the mods are a bit unusual, which adds a bit of variety to a stale formula. The game seems to perform a lot better than the original, but Q3 gamers will be on very familiar territory. There are some new weapons, but no "alternate" attacks as in STV:EF, which made it feel tactically a bit more restrictive.

The pace of the game is very fast, which some people may enjoy, but for me, it was a bit TOO fast. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to repeatedly "suddenly" die, with no warning, until I started playing TA. The weaponry seems a bit unbalanced too - repeated deaths in old-Quake stylee, and proximity bombs which blow you to smithereens as you unsuspectingly race around corners.

The speed of the game meant that I was at a real disadvantage as a 56K modem user - since the game seems focussed on old-style fragging rather than tactics, LPB's have a real advantage, and this can mean a frustrating series of "oops ! too slow !" deaths.

In summary, if you like a fast-paced game, with a high degree of difficulty and a scoreline that can change radically in the space of a minute, Q3TA might be for you, provided you have a Ninja Internet connection. However, for me it feels dated, unbalanced and no fun compared to STV:EF.

Brian Roberds

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: January 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Apparently most of the people who write these reviews either A) Don't play games B) Don't have a brain.

Q3Arena was not made to be a single player game... the single player section of Q3 is supposed to be a way to practice. Q3 is the dominating force in Multiplayer games Online and has been since Q1. I have read so many reviews on both this Expansion Pack and Q3 that say "The single player is terrible". Cry Cry, Tear Tear. Let it be known that these games rule. You can play on a Modem or a High bandwidth connection! Don't buy this game if you want to just play with yourself. But until you have tried playing online with 20 or 30 people from around the world in real time... don't waste my time or anyone elses trying to bash these games.

I'm Spent

Quake 3: Team Arena is just a mediocre offering from ID

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great, the gameplay is insanely fast just like Quake 3. But ID doesn't know how to make team play games, and their attempt failed miserably. The new mods are nothing more than team deathmatch with an objective other than kill as much as possible tossed in. Gotta wonder why waste [$] when there are better alternatives available. Mabey in an attempt to be like the rest, Q3:TA's character models look as boring as those in the original UT, either that or mabey it was just ID's stupidity. And yes, it was foolish that ID didn't make Q3:TA win2000 compatible, as win2000 is the most advanced and most reliable OS in the world today, if anything, Jhon Carmack is one of the biggest supporters of Microsoft.

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