When I began playing Quake Live I was initially concerned about my own status as a deathmatch player. I was ferociously accurate with the railgun and rocket launcher, and - after prolonged bouts of flag defence - I would often enter that twitchy reptilian zone of not actually having a conscious register of my action. Where I excelled in olden-day Quake III was in the team games: getting the timing right for the quad-damage in team deathmatching, knowing the route that particular flag-carrier would take out of Q3WCP9 in capture the flag. Of course that never put me off in the past, and it wouldn't this time. Leaping into a duel has led me to lose, every time, with perhaps one or two lucky frags next to my ticker. In those one-on-one games in a small arena - which are something like Kung Fu rocketry with power-ups - I tried ever so hard to hog the red armour, but the process was always slightly beyond me. For a returning Quaker of old, like me, it's a mixed experience.įor one thing I was never a great duellist.
It's both modern - being launched inside your browser and having a fairly sophisticated ranking and server selection system - and incredibly nostalgic, harking backing to an era when bunny hops were in and your twitch skills were dependent on whether there was any broadband around for you to use. It's certainly an intriguing challenge: take an existing, ageing title and rebuild it for the net generation.
More improvements are apparently planned for future iterations of what has been referred to as a "service", but it's not entirely clear what they are.
#Quake live free
The advertising-supported project is entirely free to play, and embeds in your browser of choice (on Linux and Mac too) with a simple plug-in. Nevertheless Id inform us that the resurrected Arena is fully launched and primed for action. The game has been in a public testing phase for a while, and currently still bares its "beta" moniker. It's been reincarnated as Quake Live, an online shooter from your web-browser. Quake III - the multiplayer FPS that was arguably Id Software's greatest achievement after Doom - has been reborn.
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