IncGamers' latest edition of Hot Mods looks at Quake III Arena, a timely piece with the recent announcement of Quake Live going into beta.
Spanner Spencer writes:
"Quake III Arena did away with the single player campaign, which elevated its use to only the most extravagant and tech savvy player – not the kind of elite club we could join with our top of the range 28.8KB modems. And to achieve this strange concept of multiplayer only action, the rest of the game was almost stripped bare to cope with the weight of interaction (quite literally when id made the source available for free in 2005, minus all its textures)."
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Devs stopped innovating on them.
Overwatch is the last innovation that has some of that vibe.
The Outerhaven writes: First-person shooters (or FPS for you grandchildren of boomers) is one of my favorite genres in gaming. I grew up playing games such as Doom, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004, and others. But then something happened.
I just wish they'd do more with the actual perspective and movement. First person view in games are so unrealistic and the lack of movement is what keeps me away from most fps.
I love FPS games, I'll take more.
If you actually count, there's wayyyy more 3rd person games. Possibly 3x or more
Also this should be in a new section called 'Rant'
Modder ‘Zanieon’ has released a brand new version of his Quake III On Doom mod, Hunter’s Moon. Hunter’s Moon is a mod for Zandronum and GZDoom that consists in bringing the single-player/cooperative campaign that Quake III Arena never had.
FPS are always top games to mod!
Beta. Finally. that took a while =D
Oh, Quake III! The happy days I spent with you! Some awesome stuff in that article.
Quake is still an awesome game, long may it live I say.
Nice article. Might have to give this Quake Live thing a try, I'm feeling all nostalgic now.