4 stars (Old school shoot-em-up fun) - Well this is my first real taste of Quake. I played the original shareware Quake 1 back in the day and I also owned Quake 3 Arena for Dreamcast. Now I know Quake 3 was insanely popular but since I didn't own the keyboard attachment, the game was frustrating as heck. Now with Quake 4 here, I have come to realize why everybody loves the Quake series so much.
For starters, the game's graphics are fantastic. Truley some of the best out there and they are improved over Doom 3's as well. The sounds are great too although the machine gun's sound will really start to irritate you especially in multiplayer. As for the singleplayer campaign, its pretty decent. Basically its an old school style of gameplay where you blast the living heck out of anything that walks. My complaint with the single player is that its over way to quickly. The vehicle levels are over before you know it and the story isn't the best either. But the shooting is well done and since thats what you're doing most of the time its fun to play.
Now the multiplayer portion of the game isn't really my favorite style for online FPS games. Its basically a combination of Quake 2 and 3's maps with much improved graphics. Most of the people online are seasoned vets and since I am a noob when it comes to this games multiplayer, I usually end up dead more often than alive. So if you loved the other Quake games online, then you will surely enjoy this one too. If your like me and enjoy games like Day of Defeat, Call of Duty, Ghost Recon, or the Battlefield games, then you won't probably care too much for Quake 4's online aspects unless you put in a great amount of practice.
Normally I wouldn't have spent more money on the special edition version of the game just to have it on dvd as opposed to multiple cds, but I had a giftcard and since I never played Quake 2, I bought it. Although I have only played a few levels of Quake 2, it is a very fun game and I'm sure the included expansion packs are fun too. Well, if you're looking for a new FPS and you are either a long time Quake fan or are new to the series, then you will most likely have some good old fashioned fun with Quake 4.
5 stars (Great Game as awaited.) - Hi,
I was waiting for Quake 4 for quite a time and followed the stages of development to release, and what i was excpecting was wooooooooooo.
The game is so interactive and much fun having a squad with you making it so real, the game resulution is wonderfull such as D-III and the game play is YEAH !!!.
Believe me prepare your PC for this Game to get the best of it, as im playing with a LogitTech MX1000 and a VGA Nvidia FX 5200 and a 5.1 sound system.
To me little money is worth it for this game.
The same thing i said on Doom III review is "Great Job ID Software"
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2 stars (Moderately disapointed) - I've been anxiously waiting for Q4 to come out for about a year now, and now that I have it, and played it, I have to say that it's nothing like I anticipated. First and foremost, if you want to play in Single Player mode, you are limited to playing a campaign, and just one campaign at that. Forget the concept of CTF, Free For All and Deathmatch - they simply do not exist unless you are in Multi-Player mode. And when you are in Multi-Player mode, you be playing the Q3TA maps....so nothing new here.
The graphics in Single player mode are pretty good...better than that of Q3 for sure, especially with the animation.
Something else that turns me off about Q4 is the gore. I find it really un-neccessary that the intro has to show mangled bloody bodies floating in space. There are some levels that are pretty gross too with excessive blood and gore. And this is something you cannot turn off (like you can with UT04). If I wanted to see blood and guts, I would play DOOM 3.
PROS:
Impressive graphics in Single player mode.
CONS:
Expensive - especially if you already own Q3TA
Bloody - too much blood and guts in Single player mode.
Short - I bought Q4 a little over a week ago, and I've already conquered it! (and I'm no pro)...
Application HOG! - you have to completely EXIT the game if you want to do some other task on your computer! (Alt + Tab no workie).
Asside from the mission, where are the single player maps?
So as you can clearly see...the CONS far outweigh the PROS. Perhaps the next incarnation of Q4 will be better.
I'll have to admit, that I had some fun while I was playing it...but now that've I've completed the mission, I have no desire to play it again. :(
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