Your adventure is further enhanced by the stupendous Doom 3 engine, which makes your dark, sinister surroundings look more drop-dead gorgeous than Elie McPherson on a bed of cold meats, though admittedly, outdoor areas are still a problem.

What follows is a rampaging ride of destruction, punctuated by periods of exposition and some slick cut-scenes that build the tension and raise the stakes ever higher as the campaign progresses, while a surprising plot twist halfway through adds some extra spice. So, what's the single-player game like? Well, you play as Kane - a soldier embroiled in the seemingly never-ending Human/Strogg conflict from Quake ID, sent to an enemy planet to execute a daring raid that could turn the tide of the war. Including Wigan town centre on a Saturday night. They moaned and they complained -then went off and made some tea - then they came back and moaned some more.Īnd so, in an attempt to alleviate their bleating, and in an effort to bring the best parts of Quake II and III into one unifiedĪll and all-conquering whole, id and Raven decided a return to the single-player campaigns of yore to complement what is undoubtedly the purest deathmatch experience in the known universe. Y'see, some people whinged about Quake III: Arena's lack of single-player action.

Why? Because, my frag-frenzied friend, unlike its predecessor, Quake 4 isn't being sold as a multiplayer game.

All of the chaos, all of the anger and every last drop of mayhem from Quake III has been siphoned out and rammed into an engine so sublime that it practically sucks you through your monitor and spits you out into another world, where a split-second can separate the vanquished from the victor.īut enough about Quake 4's multiplayer. It's Official, Quake deathmatch is back and it's faster and betterlooking than ever, pitting you and up to 15 others in a furious futuristic joust Never before has there been a multiplayer shooting experience like it a challenge of skill that's so utterly pure and unadulterated.

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