Quake 3 Arena

by Loki Entertainment Software

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000046Q56
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,848 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

As in its dozens of first-person shooter ancestors, id Software and Activision's Quake 3: Arena transports players into a violent, virtual world filled with deadly weapons, impressive power-ups, and intense combat. Players compete on 26 maps in either death match (free-for-all or team play), with goals to rack up as many kills as possible; or capture the flag, a team-oriented game with scoring based on the number of enemy flag captures. Though presenting the best death-match experience around, Quake 3's two game types lack the variation and originality of a similar game, Epic's Unreal Tournament.

Although you'll need the latest video card and computer hardware, it's impossible to dispute the sheer beauty of Quake 3's 3-D engine. The 26 maps are filled with exquisite architecture and impressive special effects; further, Quake 3 provides dozens of highly detailed player models to choose from. If you've played other id Software first-person shooters, the weapons should all look familiar: machine gun, shotgun, plasma gun, grenade launcher, rocket launcher, lightning gun, railgun, and the BFG 10K. Though impressively rendered and balanced, you've likely used them before in id's Doom, Quake, or any number of other first-person action games.

Hopping online and competing against other Quake 3: Arena players worldwide requires only a 56K or better Internet connection and a few mouse clicks. Quake 3 offers an infinitely replayable multiplayer experience (and a violent one--not for youngsters), but an unsatisfying solo game. Its single-player tournament mode--a series of death matches against computer AI bots--serves simply as a massive training exercise for multiplay. --Doug Radcliffe

Pros:

• Cutting-edge graphics
• Near-perfect death-match multiplay
• Detailed player models
• Beautiful level architecture

Cons:

• Uninspired single-player experience
• Lack of game variations
• Unoriginal weapons

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quake 3 Linux Rocks!, February 3, 2000

By 

Jeremy G Wills (San Antonio Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quake 3 Arena (CD-ROM)

This is the best game that has ever been ported over to Linux since Myth 2. It runs much faster on Linux and it's time that Linux users can have a little fun on thier computers too. So move over Windows users, one mad angry armed penguin named Quake 3 Linux is on the loose aimed for you! A definite must have for any Linux user! I give it 6 stars!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Performance of linux Game I've seen..., June 30, 2002

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Cary L. Brown (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quake 3 Arena (CD-ROM)

Quake 3 runs GREAT on my Linux system. That's not saying all that much, I suppose, until you realize that my Linux machine has a 3dfx Banshee as its video card, yet I can run at 1280x1024 without a single stutter or hickup.

On a technical merrit, this game gets a "5."

On a gameplay merrit, this game gets a "3." That is, I really enjoy plots... feeling like I'm playing a key role in some momentous event. Half-Life... System Shock (1&2)... Deux Ex... all great examples of this. It's fun, but it's not "absorbing."

So, I give the game a "4."

The main thing to take away from this is that the Quake3 engine works GREAT in Linux. I recently installed the Linux binaries of Return to Castle Wolfenstein onto this machine. It also uses the Quake3 engine. Wolfenstein, so installed, is beautiful, and it DOES have a plot.

ID Software, who developed the binaries for this port and who developed the Quake-series engines, have singlehandedly proven that Linux is a great gaming platform, yet again. The Quake3 engine is being used everywhere these days, and there's no fundamental reason that ANY of them can't be easily ported over to Linux.

Well, that's not entirely true. It's true that there's no TECHNICAL reason that we can't have those games. And it's true that there's no MARKET reason that we can't have those games (minimal effort to create the port using all the same content, then a secondary distribution channel).

However, there is ONE reason... the illegal marketing practices of Microsoft. Will this play out like all the other "Competition with Microsoft" activities of the past few years? Stay tuned...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME: UNDER [price]- AND IT WORKS ON WINDOWS?, July 10, 2001

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N (Jacksonville, FLA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quake 3 Arena (CD-ROM)

Let me start by saying this is the first game I've even purcased for linux-and i am not a considered a gamer. BUT for those of you who are debating buying this game, let me clear it up-BUY IT! Cool collectors tin, linux version (rocks on my debian box), suse included, AND it INCLUDES the windows version!!!! The linux version was a little bit tricky to install, but I think that may depend on my distro and my obsolete video card. BE WARNED: This product SAYS it works on a 4meg video card, but I couldn't get it to, not only until i upgraded my video card was I able to get it working. I also had to upgrade X, to version 4, for the nvidia drivers. I am running debian potato, on a p2 400mhz, with a newly bought geforce2 32mg video card (nvidia) and this game does great (although im not much of a gamer) it seems to run perfect. Debian was kinda tricky to get started, since my X wasn't up to date, but this copy of Quake3 INCLUDES a version of SuSe! Which i've heard is easier to install. As for the windows part of the cd: there is *NO* documentation, however, for windows, except for the FAQ @ loki's website. I had it working right away for windows, after a download from the web, and file transfer from the CD. If you would like to see more great games like this, buy it and support loki software! They did a great job on this! And the tin is cool!:)