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DE BEZT GAME EVA

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME ROCKS. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES I HAVE EVER PLAYTED. my friend and i play always when we get back from school. its awseome. the 4 stars is really 5 1/2 becuz single player can get boring. i was about 9 when i discovered that multiplayer actually wqorked by accidently clicking on it and seeing servers. if u have a crap 4 connection dont plan on playin interenet cuz u will lag a lot. i have played Unreal Tournament and i think i like unreal better then quake but i dunnno. its a good overall game as long as u play multi player

The Defacto Death-Match game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just recently got this with my new computer and I have to say it's the Alpha and Omega of DM games. Great graphics. The single-player could have been better, but the whole point of making this game was to concentrate on the multiplayer online game. Like tweaking the netcode and balancing out weapons. Everything is great. Recommended buy to any id or DM lover.

A Near-Flawless Deathmatch Experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've always been an Unreal Tournament person, but lately I've been playing the Q3A demo a lot and decided to get the full version. The engine is the smoothest and most powerful I've ever experienced in an FPS. It is fast as Hell and accomodates an extraordinary degree of precision in regard to movement and aim, which is easily noticable if you use a mouse that takes advantage of unusually high-res environments (I use an Intellimouse Explorer). Unfortunately, the graphic designs for a lot of the levels using it are kind of boring aesthetically... lots of castles and gothic constructions, and those space levels with the jump pads. Then again, most of my favorite flashy, unconventional UT levels had bad framerates. I did find the weapons a bit of a problem, not so much because they are unoriginal as because they are unbalanced. It is rare that anyone uses anything other than rockets and railguns, which hurts gameplay a bit. The built in alternative modes of play are not great, but the mod community is fairly advanced. I still like UT more, but any true FPS fan should have a copy of this.

Great Graphics and Fast Game Play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Overall, I am dissapointed by Quake3. However, there are now many modificatinos (Mods) available that make it a far more interesting game when playing over the internet. Plus, a new mission pack will be released in Nov. 2000 that will add new maps, weapons and features. I still prefer Unreal Tournament to Q3. But if your looking for some great graphics and really fast game play (assuming your computer can handle it), then I strongly recommend this title be added to any serious "first person shooter's" library.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the greatest game!!! Why? Quake3 arena differs from quake and quake2 is that there is no single player... I always found the single player parts of these games boring. I never beat the game with out cheating because I hated running out of ammo or having to face the same dude over and over again. Quake3 arena is all multiplayer, and the expansion pack is moving even farther into the multiplayer field. It is addictive (I know 10 college students that were kicked out because of it) some people do not like the maps or the boring death match stuff that came in the box with quake. Quake is better than unreal tournament for many reasons. in quake you have a wide variety of guys to choose from, if you don't like what is there you can make your own. THE GAME PLAY IS INTENCE. The number one reason why quake is better than UT is because ID software released the source code for the game. When they did this, it allowed anybody that wanted to change the game and make MODS, MODs are modifications to the game like.... Instagib. Rocket Arena 3. Weapons Factory Arena. And many many more.. If you get board then play a different mod, it is like playing a hole different game.

GIB YOU LATER

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I only have one word for this game AWASOME if only i could give it more then 5 stars i would, I think it is one of the best games out there it gives you a virity of games to choose from Death match, Team Death match, Capture the flag, and Tournament you can also play all 4 types over the internet on heat or Mplayer. If you could only pick one game i would pick this one

Hail Quake !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: August 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Man .... if u r looking for some hardcore fun ... this is the game for u .... i dont need to say much bout how to play and stuff .. cause everyone has played a first person shooter game .... but man ... this is completely different .... It's damn smooth .. nothing much to learn bout ... just install .. grab the mouse ... and beat the hell outta ur enemy .. Unlike half-life and many other games ... Quake doesn't have many complicated controls .... u dont need to scratch ur brains ... just see someone running .. and launch a damn rocket at him/her .. tearing ur opponent into pieces ... Unlike half-life this game is really fast ..I MEAN REALLY REALLY FAST ! .. u dont have to go around searching for a small damn key or looking for a special secret lock ... no such crazy things in quake ..While in half-life .. u gotta wait at the corner .. change ur settings .. pick something up .. then put it down in right place .. it's too slow and boring .... While in QUAKE .. just run over a gun .. u'll pick it up automatically .. and frag someone ... no problems of findin keys .. and secret doors and stuff .. And this is really fast ... u dont need to take ur hands off the mouse and the arrow keys .. just stick to the mouse and keys .. and let the wild side of u take the control of ur enemies .. hehehe The game has the best graphics that no other game can boast of... This is the game that u wanna play with ur friends .. and collegues... And the best thing is it's made to work good even if u have a large ping time (ping time is a big problem in Unreal .. which really really slows the game .. and takes all the fun out of it) ! ... ONE THING I CAN ASSURE IS THAT ... U WILL NEVER GET BORED OF PLAYIN A NETWORK GAME OF QUAKE 3. The stages and levels r simply awesome ... really simple ... the best thing is .. u never get lost ... like u do in "half-life" or "Deux ex" ... some stages r such that .. no one can hide from u .. it's like an open arena ... shoot and kill baby ! and the details of the bots .. and the details of someone getting fragged (killed for newcomers) is so cool and terific ... , Guess what .. i could say this is the most famous game in the history ... look at all those servers on the net .. the channels on yahoo chat and other places .. and u gotta check out their official website ... and have a look at the real life sculptures made by it's fan ... In short ... this is the game for u... if u r looking for some real fast and pure action ... I would love to say LONG LIVE QUAKE !

P.S IT'S GOOD FOR RELAXATION ... SINCE U DONT HAVE TO WORK UR BRAINS .. HAHAHA ... !

id, be ashamed.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In 1996 a game was made - Quake. It blew the minds of all 3d-shooter fans (including me) with splendid graphics and addictive gameplay. In 1997 a game was made - Quake2. A brilliant sequel to Quake, it was better than its predecessor in all ways. In 1999 a game was made - Quake3. It had brilliant graphics and boring gameplay. In fact, it was a letdown. This is the brief history of the Quake series. Sad, but a fact - the third game turned out to be worse than the previous two. I very much looked forward to the day when this game would come out. I bought it. I installed it. I ran the quake3.exe file. And in front of my amazed eyes the following strange picture occured: A big marine with a big gun was rapidly decreasing the number of the filthy aliens in front of him. Why weren't the aliens responding to the fire, and most importantly what was all this about - no one cared to explain. Then, the marine ran out of ammo and the filthy aliens seemed to have awakened and started shooting at him. The marine ran towards them and disappeared. Where did he go? Did he die? No one cared to explain me. This is the deep and intriguing plot of Quake3:Arena. HalfLife should just suck. Then I pressed the words SINGLE PLAYER, pressed OK several times and started fighting a bot (Crash) who was so unreasonably stupid, that at first I couldn't believe i was playing on "Nightmare". It was a really cute picture - a slowly moving bot walking around with a shotgun and waiting to be killed - so VERY interesting... The levels are good. The architecture is good. The skins are good. Everything is good (except for the AI ant the storyline), but it could have been better. I liked the curves used in the game. The graphics are splendid, but Unreal Tournament looks and feels much better. I'm sorry to admit it, because I'm a big fan of Q1 and Q2, but the third part of the series is a complete letdown!

Ho...hum... Wake me up when you frag me.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Between Quake 2 and Quake 3, better settle with Quake 2 or go pick up Unreal Tournament. This game is just too boring and slow. I think it has something to do with the OpenGL engine or maybe the designers at ID software just got tired of revising a tired old game. Maybe they shoudve changed the name of the game to something else. Action is slow. Weapons are just too boring to use. It has no alternate fire still. Sound is the same old monoaural type clunky thumping sound. Interface is still a pain. Just setting up a server requires you to open your .cfg files and .bat files and type lines and lines of code unlike Unreal Tournament where everything is there at a punch of a button. Maps require no strategy primarily because they all look alike. The CTF maps are bad. I mean really terrible. Bots are just too dumb to play with. This game will wear you down in 2 hours. Forget this game. Go pick up Unreal Tournament.

Great game, poor overview by amazon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: June 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quake 3 Arena is a great game. The weapons are hardly groundbreaking innovations. But why would they need to be? I own both this and Unreal tournament and for pure deathmatch competitions nothing beats Q3A. It's focus on gameplay over a multitude of weapon modes is what really allows it to shine. Games like UT can become to bogged down in the cuteness and novelty of 25 weapon fire modes. And let's not even talk about the unbalancing caused by the redeemer.

On another note, the Amazon overview of the game is completly incorrect. A) There is no flamethrower built in to the game, some mods include one, but ID did not. B) What player classes? Again, there are some great mods which provide team fortress gameplay (Weapons Factory and Q3Fortress), but character choice is inconsequential in relation to gameplay in vanilla Q3A.

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