Quake 4 Multiplayer Hands-On - Rocket-Fueled Mayhem

Iria · Aug 12, 2005, 09:18 PM

GRAPEVINE, Texas--Quake 4 is here in Grapevine, Texas, at this year's QuakeCon conference, the official fan convention for all things pertaining to Quake and Doom. Quake is the long-running first-person shooter series from developer id Software and publisher Activision. The PC version of Quake 4 is playable in multiplayer form, and we got our hands on it to see how it's shaping up.

As you may know from checking our previous coverage, id Software is attempting to create Quake 4 with what it considers to be the best parts of the Quake series so far. Since the single-player component of 1997's Quake II, which pitted players against an alien invasion, seemed the strongest, this setting is being revisited for Quake 4. And id has decided to model the new game's multiplayer component after 1999's Quake III: Arena, a deathmatch-focused game that still enjoys a substantial fan following to this day.

As far as we can tell, Quake 4's multiplayer does indeed go after the speed and feel of Quake III's multiplayer, and it seems to do a pretty good job of re-creating it. The map that was available for play was a very open-ended one that resembled nothing so much as a smaller version of the classic free-for-all map Q3DM12 (aka "The Dredwerkz").
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Aug 12, 2005, 09:18 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Quake 4 Multiplayer Hands-On - Rocket-Fueled Mayhem GRAPEVINE, Texas--Quake 4 is here in Grapevine, Texas, at this year's QuakeCon conference, the official fan convention for all things pertaining to Quake and Doom. Quake is the long-running first-person shooter series from developer id Software and publisher Activision. The PC version of Quake 4 is playable in multiplayer form, and we got our hands on it to see how it's shaping up. As you may know from checking our previous coverage, id Software is attempting to create Quake 4 with what it considers to be the best parts of the Quake series so far. Since the single-player component of 1997's Quake II, which pitted players against an alien invasion, seemed the strongest, this setting is being revisited for Quake 4. And id has decided to model the new game's multiplayer component after 1999's Quake III: Arena, a deathmatch-focused game that still enjoys a substantial fan following to this day. As far as we can tell, Quake 4's multiplayer does indeed go after the speed and feel of Quake III's multiplayer, and it seems to do a pretty good job of re-creating it. The map that was available for play was a very open-ended one that resembled nothing so much as a smaller version of the classic free-for-all map Q3DM12 (aka "The Dredwerkz"). __________ Read More / Source: GameSpot