There's nothing quite as satisfying as humiliating your opponent by fragging him or her and then carrying the hard-earned skull into their base and scoring. We love team play around here, so we found Team Arena to be especially fun, especially One Flag CTF and Harvester. Overall these new game play types enhance Quake III by leaps and bounds. The point of the game is to destroy the other team's obelisk, which can be pretty damn tough. Overload: Each team's base contains a skull-adorned obelisk. If you get killed while carrying skulls, you lose them all. Like One Flag CTF, you have to grab as many of the other team's skulls as possible and take them back to the enemy's base. Harvester: Every time a player is fragged, a skull appears near a skull generator in the center of the map. However, you don't return it to your base, but rather to the enemy base. One Flag CTF: Like above, but with only one flag located in a central room. In getting away from its pure deathmatch roots, the folks at id have added:Ĭlassic CTF: Easy enough - capture a flag located in the opposing team's base and return it to yours. Like I mentioned earlier, the biggest new addition in Team Arena is, aptly enough from the name, team play.

These new videos also relieve some of the 'what in the hell map was this again' experiences we had with Q3: Arena. There's also the addition of all-new video sequences for each level embedded in the interface, so you can catch a glimpse of the hot spots before you even begin to play. The new interface is a lot more functional than the old UI and, although you still have to use the console for some advanced functions, most users won't even have to mess with typing at all, instead finding everything they need in the pull-down menus. Id has achieved their goal of creating an enhanced UI that is simple to use, yet gives the player access to tons of options at the click of a few mouse buttons. The first thing you'll notice when you load the game is the new user interface. There were a few team play modes, but nothing overly exciting and, while Clans have been hosting their own pseudo team matches for years, id has stepped in and offered up Team Arena, where the focus is on Blue or Red rather than just 'you.' But, for the most part, the focus of Q3: A was you against the world. It's been a year since the release of the mighty Quake III: Arena, and hordes of Quake-heads are still fragging it out incessantly online. The venerable franchise has been kickin' like fried chicken since 1996 and, like Energizer, it just keeps going and going and going. It's pretty safe to say that every PC gamer is familiar with Quake by now.

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