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team power-ups

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One of the really cool things is the Team Power-Ups; Ammo regen, Scout, Doubler, and Guard. All of these enhance your player allowing you to play a different role or use a different strategy eg when you use Guard, your player is stronger and you can tie up two or three opponents before getting killed while your teammates capture the flag or whatever game. Or in games with a lot of people. weapons can be hard to come by, so Ammo Regen is preferred. My biggest problem is getting connected. Half the servers don't work, they default into a Quake 3 game or create an error. So I am frequently downloading new servers trying to find a place to play with more than one or two others.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

great is what it is

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Quake 3 is a great tactics gam e i love it even though it is not like the mod version cs of half lfe its not as realistic its very hard i also love the feateare that u can play the comp so if ur not dialed in u can play the computer in differan t modes of hard nesss :-D

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

Too little, too late

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: March 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This *is* just a piecemeal offering from Id for a bolt on other companies have for free, or as a patch. The multiplayer is fast(otherwises known as errors in their skeletal system), and the weapons now have alternate fire modes, which other game companies have had for years using the same engine... odd, that. Correct, this is not a single player game as Id never could get the AI down quite right. But, who plays single player deathmatch? Okay, if you're burned out from Counter Strike and all the other Half Life bolt-ons, get this. Otherwise, go download Counter Strike and have at it.

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

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