Boot Disk: Quake 3

Posted Aug 17th 2009 2:00PM by James Murff
Filed under: Features, FPS, Multiplayer

Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

It's only fair that, after giving its competitor some air time, that id's multiplayer masterpiece is covered on Boot Disk. I'm talking about Quake 3, a game that spawned a thousand debates (which is better, Quake or Unreal?!) and a thousand mods. Recently reworked for the browser through the magic of Quake Live, it's time to put a little perspective on the original. It may appear dated, but the low resolution of the textures hides a game that every first-person shooter fan should enjoy. While you may initially have trouble warming up to the weightlessness of Quake after all that time spent in Call of Duty, you'll soon lose yourself in this classic.

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rami
Posted at 3:39PM on Aug 17th 2009 by rami

Since you mentioned ol' Call of Duty, I think it is worth pointing out (only in the interest of sharing what appears to be a relatively unknown factoid today):

Call of Duty the first was straight up id Tech 3, aka, Quake 3 engine. :) As was the vastly inferior Medal of Honor series. (I can't bring myself to care enough to find out how many games in that line used id Tech 3 though.) Granted, you weren't weightless in those games like in Q3, but since you used such a direct comparison, I think the pedigree is fun to think about.

Wikipedia tells me that CoD2 was based on a "heavily modified" id Tech 3, of which I was unaware or perhaps forgot long ago. Perhaps I'll replay it and see if I can spot some of the telltale "id Tech 3"-isms. Enough years of running the game and working under the hood of it and you get to recognizing it pretty quickly. :)Posted at 3:06AM on Aug 24th 2009 by abra