To its credit, the action in Quake 4 can get quite frantic. Many Strogg like
to opt for the direct approach, coming right at you in a frontal charge. It’s a
crude tactic but it can be effective when you’re as fast and tough as a Strogg
and can make for some tense gaming moments. If you take it at its face value and
accept the fact the game is an old school shooter in new school clothes, you’ll
have a good time. It will be a fun ride, but not something that will blow you
away or bring you back after your first play through.
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The multiplayer half of Quake 4 also carries the old school torch. There are
no fancy game modes here, just your tried and true death match and capture the
flag. If the single player game has a propensity to provide some fast-paced
gameplay, the multiplayer game is the single-player game on speed. It’s crazy
unbridled fragging in all of its bunny hopping-mad glory. The multiplayer action
is all reflex and reaction; this is about as far from a tactical shooter as you
can get. If this is your idea of multiplayer fun you’ll be in heaven – and
judging by the 1,000 or servers running Quake 4 each time I played a lot of
gamers do.
As you’d expect from a Quake game, Quake 4 pushes the envelope as far as
graphics go. The character models are very detailed and move realistically and
the lighting effects are impressive. However, you will only really be able to
enjoy all of this graphical goodness if you have a pretty recent, high-end
machine. Even if your machine is only a couple of years old, don’t expect to
play the game at the higher resolution levels or with all of the effects enabled
without paying a serious price in terms of framerate.
Well if at this point I haven’t got my point across, let me reiterate: if you
enjoy traditional shooters with fast-paced, corridor crawling, bunny hopping
action you’ll love Quake 4. If you don’t, then you probably won’t Two pages of
text and the review basically boils down to that.
In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated:
84%. New world graphics and old world gameplay.
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