RE: DL CS OR I*LL....................
[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Sep-19-00 AT 03:55AM (GMT)[p]Well answer this then. if quake3 is so great then why didnt all the pc game magazines said that it was. heres the review pcgamer gave to it. you decide:
"While 1999 will be remembered as the year that the world escaped a potential technological collapse, it was also the year that saw the very real fall of some major dynasties. The Chicago Bulls - winner of six NBA titles in the 1990s and clearly the hoops team of the decade - were staring at a 3-26 record just a week into the year 2000. The Dallas Cowboys, who took home three Super Bowl trophies over the course of the decade, limped into (and right out of) the playoffs with a .500 record. Oh, how the mighty had fallen.
Computer gaming has its dynasties, too, and one of the biggest of the 1990s was id Software. For almost the entire decade, id lorded over the realm of first-person shooters with an iron gauntlet: Wolfenstein 3D ushered in smoothly scrolling FPS action, Doom and Doom II took it to the next level with vastly improved graphics and gripping deathmatch combat, and Quake and Quake II almost single-handedly revolutionized multiplayer gaming over the Internet. And that's not all: an entire industry sprang up around id games, from gaming services to web sites to third-party software vendors.
Now the hotly anticipated Quake III Arena has finally arrived - and with it the end of the id dynasty might be in sight. Don't get the wrong idea: QIII takes the frantic, gory action millions crave and cranks it up several notches in terms of graphics and level design. On the right system, your jaw will drop at how fantastic things look and how fast and smoothly the action flows. But when all is said and done, QIII offers little more than Quake or Quake II did when it comes down to the nuts-and-bolts of gameplay - actually less, since its single-player game is little more than a practice mode for online competition. Compared to the rich depth of Tribes, the innovative multiplayer modes in Unreal Tournament, and the phenomenal single-player drama of Half-Life, QIII feels - I can't believe I'm saying this - a bit like a throwback. "