I'm going to get mailed dog shit for this but what the hell. Quake: the most important game ever? I don't think so. Technically flawless Doom clone?
Hmmm, that seems more like it. Quake is cool, Quake is spooky and atmospheric and brilliantly realised and all that, but what Quake isn't is original. Originality is what made Doom kick the gameplaying world in its collective soft bits and take notice. Quake favours multi-player action, fine if you have access to a network or can afford to play it over the net, tough titty otherwise. Better than Duke Nukem? Who gives a shit? Quake is no more playable, it just looks a whole lot better and as anyone will tell you, looks aren't everything.
At least that's what my more sympathetic friends tell me. I'm willing to wager that many people have played the shareware version and are saying to themselves, "Okay, it looks great, but what is all the fuss about? Speaking as the UK's official World's Worst Doom Player, you'll understand that my initial reaction to the news that iD were developing an even better version of the popular chainsaw 'em up was to flee in terror, hide under the bedcovers and pretend that computer games didn't exist.
Another chance to humiliate myself in front of my peers and show to the world how bad I am playing action games? Frankly, I needed it like I needed another series of Goodnight Sweetheart. But then I played it. And it succeeded where the bitter-sweet adventures of Nicholas Lyndhurst failed - I was hooked. Duke Nukem 3D was a fun diversion from Doom, but there's an atmosphere surrounding Quake that hasn't been felt since the day I first played the classic gore-fest. It's not just the total freedom of movement that creates this, but the fact that it integrates so well with the design of the game.
Levels are festooned with walkways at all sorts of heights which suddenly creates a feeling of three-dimensional gameplay that I have never experienced before. The best games in the world are the ones that cause you to become totally immersed in their world.
Quake sucked me in and hasn't let go yet. I'm still crap at it and regularly get my arse kicked in deathmatches, but at least I'm enjoying myself. Bloody hell I don't think I've ever seen a game induce passions in quite the way that Quake does and to be completely honest I am getting completely sick of the Quake vs Duke debate which now seems to have been going on forever.
When it comes down to it, Quake has a far superior graphics engine - and that's a fact. You can't argue with it, it's irrefutable. As far as everything else goes it's pretty much down to personal opinion of the way the game actually treats you. In Duke you have a character forced upon you, while in Quake you play, well, yourself really.
Personally I prefer the Quake experience a lot more I find the Quake experience far more absorbing, frenetic and basically exciting. It's a game that manages to induce a true emotional reaction and it does this by throwing things at you at a pace just beyond that which you would normally be able to handle and in a manner that is more realistic than any other game out there.
Sure, I'll agree with anyone that Duke gives you far much more 'to do', but iD's game tickles that bit of your brain that Doom managed to all those years ago. If you've only played the shareware version of the game it really does have to be said that you don't have a full picture as to what this is all about. The full version of Quake is not only huge, but offers some distinctly different level designs that range from trap-laden passageways that require you to creep around to vast rooms that allow you to just belt around at top whack wasting anything that moves.
At the end of the day all that can be said is what we've said before - Quake rocks. Quake is indeed pour hommes. Despite a nice windows 95 front end - bearded General-type details Cplot' to grizzled marine type while spinny 3D logo spins and explodes in the background - The Dark Hour is unreservedly pants.
A dour cash-in. What you get for your money are 23 levels. Eight are deathmatch only, the rest are dual purpose. Annoyingly, the levels stand alone - they're not combined into a continuous episode.
So each one has to be launched from the front-end which, if you're a little short on ram, can be tedious and affect the frame rate of your Quake.
This wouldn't be too much to bear if the levels were any cop. But they're not. The new textures are really bad -horribly garish and badly-drawn in equal measures. The levels are often over-packed with monsters, poorly paced, and vomit-inducingly designed.
There are a couple of nice deathmatch playing fields on there - notably arenam - but there are a few nice deathmatch levels on the Internet and this month's coverdisk. A text file. This is much better, aftershock presents much more value for your readies - 80 deathmatch arenas and 15 new single-player levels, all designed and artworked by Good People Who Know What They Are Doing. They're all seamlessly grouped together as one episode, with a new start room and, unlike The Dark Hour, gameplay is balanced although all are very hard and the textures are acceptably good-looking.
The only blip really is the size of some of the environments - huge enough to show the turtle on slower systems. Also squidged on the cd is the level editor formally known as Thred, now the official AfterShock 3D design tool. Only the dedicated need apply, however, as it's a scary CAD-style package with lots of buttons and that. Keen to capitalise on their success, Head Games obviously thought a compilation of the best Quake utilities would be a smashing idea.
Well, it would if it had been done better. What we have here are two good level editors - World-Craft and Thred again - some new monsters, some new weapons, and some Quake C patches. Good idea, except that the range of add-ons are poor, the quality is poor, and thev front-end is poor. Buried in among the Cnew monsters' are very early and very bad patches for Quake Test, the three-level beta released yonks ago. The Quake C stuff is old and outdated.
A quick romp around stomped. The other utilities are in the public domain and available free. Very, very disappointing. The Rift guys responsible for this have really sat down and worked at it - the levels are superb. For example, the whole first episode five levels is set in the dingy, sci-fi SlipGate complex style of the original,.
Then the whole pack goes off on one into the scary medieval stuff and culminates in a showdown with a very hard, very unpolite new end-of-level monster. You also get to deal with Centroids metallic nail-firing scorpions , Gremlins who steal your weapons and use them against you , and exploding puff ball things.
Added to your armoury is a new proximity-mine launcher and a new laser cannon, which sends ricocheting laser bolts off the scenery. There are also subtle effects like pock marks when you hit the walls, and a host of new scripted interactive scenery bits. One level, The Gauntlet, is just a series of unbelievably cunningly-scripted traps.
And there are new power-ups such as the Empathy Shield which bounces any attack on you back onto the monstie and the Horn of Conjuring which, er, conjures a Shambier to do your bidding fighting, obviously - not any weird sexual requests. First there was Wolfenstein 3D for the PC way back when.
Then Doom came and literally blew away gamers around the world. There have been clones but now Quake is coming to rumble up some earth and prove to gamers that it has what it takes to conquer all of the clones around. Will it do it? Using far more polygons and higher resolution than Doom ever imagined, Quake looks ultra-realistic. Its lighting, shading and fog effects are eerie and make the Quake environment disturbingly real.
From what we've seen and played so far. Quake might just be the next big thing. Will it make it in the world of first-person action games out there? Despite all the hype and some negative feedback from the early release beta, the finished Quake is an excellent game. The latest product from the creators of Doom is an intense 3D corridor shooter that more than shows off its new play engine. In Quake, you are the sole survivor of a base overrun by monsters, enemy soldiers, and other creatures.
Fortunately, there are numerous weapons, ammo, and other items hidden in the vast levels to help you--along with an equal number of hidden areas and traps.
Time to kill or be killed. The theme is the same as Doom's: Point, shoot, and get to the end of each level alive. What isn't the same is the engine: Unlike Doom, in Quake's true 3D world you can jump, look up and down, and swim. You will make use of these new abilities to cross gaps, find traps, and spot enemies. Quake looks great, but it's not without flaws. There's smooth, fluid motion and scaling. However, you should have at least a Pentium to run this game with decent resolution: lower than that, things get choppy.
Most of the levels have gloomy, gray colors, but this just augments the "odds stacked against you" theme. The monsters look menacing, but up close you can almost see every bulky polygon that went into their construction. They look best at a distance.
The sound is awesome. From the ricochet of nails fired from your gun to the grunts and groans of the various monsters, the audio effects are clear and effective. The music by Nine Inch Nails is equally impressive. With harsh, rockin' guitar riffs, and creepy low-key synthesizers, the music goes perfectly with each level and thoroughly enhances the overall atmosphere.
The controls are easy and accurate. Using the keyboard is a breeze, even when you need to execute multiple functions. This is especially helpful in the middle of furious combat, when one wrong move could cost you your life. Quake may not be the earth-shattering game it was hyped to be, but it's certainly a very enjoyable one.
The new game engine and other elements make it both a blast to play and a worthy successor to the Doom throne. First, there was Quake. And it was good, even over the Internet, but it didn't amount to much more than free-for-alls with strangers. Then Capture the Flag was added, introducing the con cept of team play. Still, it was hard to talk to teammates--nobody has time to type when there's a rocket closing in fast. Quake II arrived and gave the whole thing a nice polish, but the problem remains: How do you simultaneously kill and communicate as a team?
Enter FireTeam, a new multiplayer game from Multitude that's based on the concept of "collaborative play. FireTeam arms each player with a headset microphone for hands-free communication with teammates, three character types to control, and cooperative action games that only get better when you start talking. No chatting, no typing--actual talking, like with your mouth and everything. No buttons will impede the flow of your voice. You and your four-player team will be able to discuss strategies, call out updates, and shout warnings during the game without ever taking your hands off the controls.
In fact, since you can only see objects and enemies in front of your character, you'll want someone to let you know when there's a punk on your six. The sound ain't crystal-dear, but it's roughly as good as a walkie-talkie or an AM radio--and it's certainly no worse than the chats you hear on Mplayer. All you need is a Live speech, trigger-happy action, player arenas Instead of creating a game and then figuring out how to make it work online, Multitude built FireTeam around the realities of Internet latency since the beginning.
The result is a surprisingly lag-free experience that will shock most Quake vets but, in all fairness, the action's not nearly as fast as Quake's. The bit hires rendered graphics and crisp sounds don't seem like afterthoughts, either; the professional look and feel of the M-overhead action recalls Diablo or the Crusader series.
Unlike Ultima Online all story or Quake hardly any story at all , FireTeam adventures cover a wide range of interests and settings. For 15 minutes, you could be engaged in a traditional team death match; when the action's over, switch gears for a round of Cun-ball--a cross between football and mass murder.
If that's too intense, try Base Tag, FireTeam's take on fort defense, or Capture the Flag, a frantic game with multiple teams and multiple flags. Not only is Multitude creating more scenarios hinting at games based on movies, books, and TV shows , it's also encouraging players to come up with their own game ideas and providing the tools to make them a reality.
For anyone who's looking for more than just a random online fragfest, Fire-Team's blend of shooter action and player interaction could be just the right combination. PROTIP: If you're shy, don't choose the scout--not only is she fast, but she can see parts of the field other players can't. Or should i still see light and shadows?
And why cant i use the wads? Do i have to do something first, not just use the wads included? Ok, yeah both Worldcraft and your Quake folder have to be on the same drive, unfortunately. If they aren't, Worldcraft's compile process doesn't work properly. The only things you need to know: 1. Yea you are right. This also orbits the camera in the 3D viewport.
The D and C keys zoom in and out of the 2D viewports, respectively. D and C are also used to move the camera forward and backwards in the 3D viewport. The S and F keys will roll the camera left and right. You can also draw out cameras using the Camera Tool. Version: Full. Genre: First Person Shooter. Year: Be the first one to write a review.
Worldcraft was later renamed Hammer and now comes standard with any Source games you might own. Worldcraft , the last version to support Quake.
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