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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I personally think that Quake 4 is an excellent addition to the Quake series. The graphics are very good (granted you need a really good PC to run it comfortably). I also find the single player game pretty damn immersive. I think they did a really good job with it. It definitely makes you want to keep playing. All FPS lovers and Quake fans need to pick this up. It's definitely worth playing, and I don't think you'll be disappointed at all!

If you have a CPU with all the bells and whistles you'll enjoy this

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Folks Q4 is the bomb. The game sucks up a lot of resources but if you have what it takes you'll surely enjoy this. If your still playing with a 128MB video card with old chipsets like ATI's: 9250, 9300, 9500,9600 and NIVIDA's 5100 - 5900 you might not get everything you were looking for out of this game. Of course if any of these are modified 256MB cards then your chance of enjoyment out of this game increases.

Before I continue: Parents this game is not for children. Maybe those over the age of 15 or 16. . . . .

The story picks up minutes after Q2. Which is great because everything that made Q2 awesome still remains. Outside and inside engagements are pretty well done. Your squad or shall I say fellow Marines are pretty good also. You can't control them. But they do so well on there own that you'll be worried more about keeping your butt alive. Although enemy AI like friendly AI is pretty good but not polished. You'll sometimes have a Stroggy run up to you shooting a pea-shooter while your holding a weapon that'll rip him and his buddies a new one in a New York heart felt second. . . . But hey their bodies belong to the Strogg but their minds don't.. . You'll find out more about that in the Game.

I must remind you that this is a FP action shooter. It's not another DOOM 3. In some areas it gets dark but your fellow Marines have flash lights on their basic issue rifles and so do you. Plus the Strogg are not plush. So that means their facilities and structures are built for purpose not show. So for that reason some environments in Q4 are dark, unwelcome, unforgiving, and very nasty. The Strogg are rugged and I hate to say this but fairly filthy and very unsanitary . Comparing them to Star Treks BORG is like comparing EA's System Shock villain SHODAN to the Trojan Virus.

The action is on par with HALO 1. . . with better AI and way better graphics. The game supports wide screen flat panels with the high end being 16:9. 1600X1200 (just not native wide screen resolutions) The Sound is awesome, better experienced with SB LIVE or AUDIGY sound cards and a set of 5.1 speakers. Playability is great. I would replay it again. The story is not as in-depth as HL2 but slightly below HALO 1. But again, it's a shoot and scoot game, not a shoot and look for answers game.

Overall. This game along with, HL1&2, COD, No One Lives Forever 1&2, Soldier of Fortune 1&2, & Far Cry are in my top 6 Favorite PC FPS.

I am also adding the Strogg as one of the evilest groups of villains in pc gaming along side SHODAN, and the "Many".

Running a: Intel P4 478 3.2mhz 512 Cache, ASUS P4C800DELUXE. 1gig 3200 MEM, SB AUDIGY 2, RADEON PRO X850 XE AGP8.0 256MB, DELL 24inch WIDESCREEN 12ms access time. Oh by the way the DELL screen . . . With its 12ms access time has suffered NO ghosting at all neither in DOOM3, Q4, HL2, COD, any game. . . .seriously no ghosting. I ran Quake 4 with everything turned up w/ resolution 1600X1200 and screen sized @ 16:9. Smooth through most of the game with areas were my CPU slightly slowed down when entering a huge engagement. I hope you enjoy the game as much as I did.

If you liked Doom 3 you'll like this too

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Reviewed on a 2.4GHz Pentium with 0.5 Gig RAM and nVidia 6200 video card.

My overwhelming impression all the way through this game is that is simply a large Doom 3 expansion pack. The graphics have the same quality and the load times between segments are similarly slow. In fact some of the segments seemed to take longer to load than to play.

The weapons and opponents are largely similar to those you encountered in Quake 2 with a few, quite impressive, additions. There is a good variety of play environments ranging from outdoors and warehouse sized interiors, to claustrophobic mazes. Although Q4 doesn't suceed like Doom3 in making you jump out of your chair every few minutes, it's still pretty tense. Some of the cut scenes, especially the one where you get real ugly real fast, are exceptionally gross. Not for the weak-hearted.

Probably my biggest gripe is that there aren't a whole lot of hidden goodies. Many times I found myself exploring under stairs or elevated platforms or investigating little nooks only to be disappointed that there was no reward at the end. When developers put so much effort in to building interesting and realistic environments they should give you more bonus stuff for exploring.

I must say I wasn't a whole lot suprised to find out that this game runs on the same engine that Doom 3 uses. They really are very similar. Overall I would say this game is worth the $50 I paid for it, but it didn't blow me away like Doom 3 or Half Life II.

Fun game that people expected too much of.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The fans were looking to this for years as the great leap forward in FPS games. Quake 3 was a smash hit and set the standard for multiplayer deathmatch for years to come. As the years went on, the engine had run its course and it was time to revisit the Quake franchise.

For the most part, Quake 4 is good, but not terrific. The single player campaign stands well alongside its FPS peers, but doesn't really assert itself. The story is good, the special sequences are pretty exciting, and the sci-fi setting feels authentic enough. The single player campaign feels refined and polished and is much better than the game which Quake 4 borrows its engine from, Doom 3. Still, it doesn't feel special, probably because gamers have been spoiled by exceptional single player titles such as FEAR, Far Cry, and Half Life 2.

The multiplayer part seems like the heart of the game, as it has been for much of the Quake franchise. Multiplayer is fast, furious, and is easy to get into. There are enough types of gameplay to keep you interested for awhile, but the modding community hasn't show this game as much as love as Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament 2004, so the built in game types will likely will wear thin after awhile. In addition, Quake 4 multiplayer doesn't seem to have as a large of a following as some other FPS games, so many servers sit vacant. In short, if you have played Quake 3, you have played this.

This game does what it sets out to do well. It sticks to its roots in multiplayer, perhaps to a fault. It's not a revolutionary game by any means, but is certainly good to have in your collection if you want a game that has both solid single and multiplayer.

Disappointing for the Quake III lover.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 23
Date: October 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Executive Summary: This is almost like Doom 3. If you like Doom 3, you'll probably like this. If you wanted a game like Quake 3, you'll be disappointed. The plot is repetitive like many games.

The death match multiplayer reminds me of Quake 3, but what I really enjoyed about Quake 3 was the single player w/ the great bots. For me I'm very sad that I bought this game. :-(

quake 4 rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this is the best fp3 , i have ever played and have been playing since doom 1 . the npc s add a whole new dimension . to this game . the action is fast . the graphics are great same with the sound .

not worthy of the quake name

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game like many recent titles greatly improves in the grapics arena while making gameplay more acessible and "dynamic", too bad they forgot what ppl loved about the prevoius game. why waste money to repeatedly buy new computer hardware for games like this? answer: don't!

Doom 3 Redux

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I didn't like doom 3 and I don't like Quake 4. I can't believe they suckered me again. I assumed after all the complaints about Doom 3 that ID would get off their collective asses again fix the gameplay problems. But here I was again, a rat in a dark maze, killing enemys that pop out in laughably predictable places. Open a door and "OH MY GOD" there's another one! Ha Ha. I quess I'll have to wait for the next Half-life installment.

Quake 4

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun if you are in jail and time is not an issue. To say it takes forever to load does not begin to describe it. A half hour to get it started and then ten to fifteen minutes of play and then all over again and again. My computer exceeds all requirement of the game and still this game really and truly sucks. Not the game but the load time.
Spend your money else where or take up sowing. Or read a good book. You will finish the book before you finish this game. Hope this helps. Don't say you were not warned!!!

QUAKE IIII ...ID SOFTWARE AND RAVEN ON TRIAL ?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: October 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

WHY DO SOME OF US EXPECT SO MUCH FROM ID SOFTWARE ???
THESE ARE THE GUYS WHO TOOK A GAME WITH HARDLY NO STORY, LAME BLOCKY GRAPHICS ,5 DIFFERENT MONSTERS, A FEW HELLISH PENTAGRAMS, AND SOME BLOOD THAT I GUESS BACK IN THE DAY AND I DO STRESS (DAY) WAS CONSIDERED GORE, AND MADE MILLIONS.
OPEN GL ? HUH, GEE WHAT IS THAT ? IM SURPRISED THAT THEY STILL PUT ADJUSTMENT OPTIONS ON THE VIDEO CARDS FOR IT!
YEP SURE THE GAME IS IN OPEN GL, I COMMEND THEM FOR MAKING A GAME THAT LOOKS THIS GOOD IN OPEN GL.
YEP THIS GAME IS MADE WITH THE DOOM III ENGINE, BUT ILL TELL YA OTHER THAN (THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK) ON PC I HAVENT SEEN A BETTER GRAPHICS ENGINE.
YEP HALFLIFE 2 IS AWESOME BUT WHY EVEN COMPARE IT TO QUAKE 4 ,IF ANYBODY WHOS ANYBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF FPS GAMES THEY KNOW THAT DOOM AND QUAKE FATHERD HALFLIFE ..DO THE RESEARCH.
YEP ITS QUAKE IIII NOT DOOM III AND AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED...IT KICKS THE CRAP OUT OF DOOM .
YEP THERES NO REFLECTIONS, IF YOUR POPPIN CAPS IN THE STROGG THE WAY YOURE SUPPOSED TO YOU WONT HAVE TIME TO NOTICE.
YEP THE MULTIPLAYER IS AN UPGRADED QUAKE III, I THINK MANY WILL AGREE WEVE ALL BEEN SPOILED BY UT 2004 .
YEP WHY DONT SOME OF YOU WHINERS GET TOGETHER AND BUILD A BETTER GRAPHICS ENGINE, MUCH LESS A GAME.
YEP I PLAY ALOT OF GAMES AND THIS ONE IS NOT PERFECT BUT IM HAPPY WITH IT AND I SAY QUAKE RULES AND THIS GAME ROCKS BECAUSE THIS IS THE BEST ID SOFTWARE GAME TO DATE !!!!!!!!

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