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Quake 3 Arena for DreamcastGet ready for the ultimate in first-person warfare! Quake III Arena sets a new standard in console gaming by delivering for the first time...
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Get ready for the ultimate in first-person warfare! Quake III Arena sets a new standard in console gaming by delivering for the first time in history the most amazing multiplayer Internet action ever seen on a gaming console. Get ready to ignite the battle in the most action packed arenas filled with deathtraps, atmospheric hazards and ruthless foes. The Quake III Arena state-of-the-art graphics engine recreates smothering fog, flickering shadows, and retina searing weapons effects that captures the true power of the Dreamcast.
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Best Fragging you'll see for sometime.
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Pros: Awesome graph., music, play, also internet
Cons: ..more multiplayer maps.
Quake. The series we've all grown to love. Quake was pretty much the hell spawn of two of the best, as well as first first person shooters(FPS's) out there. If these titles are unknown to you, then you haven't been alive for the last ten years. As the years passed, the Quake series grew into one of the major FPS titles. Now, with this release, Quake three is considered the best in it's genre since gaming began.
Quake begun in the earlier nineties, sporting quite impressive graphics, even extremely versitile with older computer systems. Quake 2 upped the anti with even better graphics, and grew into a more recognized series. A few years pass, and out comes what I'd like to call one of the best of it's kind.
Q3 may be controversial to some, trucking some pretty gruesome and open graphics. Blood and chunks of flesh fly this way and that upon the collision of man and rocket. However, for the gamers who dont mind a little "open hunting", they will have one hell of a time.
Thinking before release of the Sega Dreamcast version, I felt sort of mixed. The Quake engine is very sophisticated (almost three years ahead of the Unreal T. Engine), thus making it very demanding on hardware. Quite frankly, I thought it would bite... it's way too advanced for a petty 200 mhz.
However, days passed, and I happily retrieved a copy of my own. I was quite stunned at how fast paced this game was.. The action was almost blinding due to its speed. The graphics are superb, showing no popup, and rarely a hair of framerate drop in large areas.
Owning the PC version, I never really went for the whole mouse control setup, so I felt quite content with the DC setup. The controls are simple and upfront. Very easy to control.. though I had trouble before I reversed the up and down axis for aiming.
As far as music, it's some of the best from Sonic Mayhem. The PC Q3 had some awesome techno-rock beats, that were some of the best ive heard in a game. But they went back, and added some of, what I find, some of the better songs. No other soundtrack would top this, with the exception of Jet Set Radio.
Overall, with netplay, and everything else mentioned, we wont come close to anything coming this close to FPS perfection for sometime.. even with PS2's UT.
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