The poison you'll pick in Quake is kill or be killed, and humming along at a fairly steady 30 FPS, things in the Arena move extremely fast for a console shooter, but more importantly, fast enough to keep up the frantic, kill or be killed atmosphere that the series has made famous over the past few years.

Quake falls into a genre that is nothing if not visceral, and id has made a name off of its ability to capitalize on this characteristic like only a select group of developers can. Sega's promise of Internet-playable Quake III Arena was realized last week as the game shipped to retailers nationwide, and we had our misgivings about how easily the Dreamcast would translate the whole of the PC experience - but we decided to give the game as fair a shake as we could possibly offer by carrying out a full examination.Īs you can probably see from the introduction, one thing Q3A has managed to maintain is one of the game's key elements, its intensity. Grab your gun, lock the door, and prepare for the mother of all FPS games, because the wait is finally over, and much like resetting a limb that has popped out of its socket, things will only get worse before they get better. Welcome to the Arena, where beat-downs are free and people like me thrive on your misery.

That had to hurt.īut no one said life in the fast lane of first person shooters was pain-free. Funny how there's nothing quite like the rocket that was supposed to hit the guy he just squished tagging him right in the face to wipe said smile right off.

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