Fragtastic
January 17, 2010
As we all know the FPS genre is pretty much everywhere you look these days and why not, it’s fun to blow the crap out of your friends with a shotgun right? Well I find most FPS’s of today are a bit too serious and are a little bit “function heavy” for my tastes where either half your keyboard is mapped to 100 things you need to do or on a console you have absolutely ridiculous button combos to get around.
Remember a simpler time?
My favourite shooter of all time had always been Quake/QuakeWorld it was simple and ridiculously fast paced. Quakeworld pretty much created online play we know today and the mods introduced the sub genres of class based (team fortress) , Clan Arena and Capture the flag to the world and you can find these in every FPS you look at today. Thanks id!
However getting a bunch of friends together to play an old game like this proves problematic and the people online still playing it are nuts.
There is another way and it is free…
id Software last year started a beta for a new quake game called QuakeLive. This is a totally in your browser skill match based quake game. It is based of the Quake 3 engine and is run by a plugin for your browser. It takes minutes to setup, few minutes to download the game data and bam, good to go! I started with this game a year ago in the closed beta. Back then they only supported Firefox and IE on windows so I had to play inside a virtual machine but man I was hooked. It is the same fast paced fragging I love except it doesn’t look like shit and people of today actually play it! 😀 Anyways the beta now is open and anyone can sign up AND as an added bonus it now supports linux and Mac OS X natively.
What kicks ass:
- Supports all 3 major platforms, Wintendo, Linux and Mac
- All the old goodies like Rocket jump and jump running are present
- Skill matching so you arent totally pwned all the time (still most of the time though)
- Offline mode for practice
- Kick ass game modes like Clan Arena and CTF are present
- Free! Just sign up and go!
- All of your stats are recorded for you and trophies are awarded
So I’m sorry to say Quakeworld but I may finally have to retire you as QuakeLive offers everything you did plus more and it looks great!
Sign up and fight me! Look for CrazySpence.
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Thanks for this Phil, I had no idea, now I can spend countless more hours online, on top of the countless hours I already spend, fragging 12 year olds with anger issues! 😀 Can you chat with other players while playing this? I'll give it a run threw later on tonight. Then, after I'm pro, I can use terms like 'Noooob!' 'Nooblit' 'Noobster' 'Noobliterian' 'Hahaha U Lose!' 'Bow to Gosu!' 'Owned' 'Mahahha (then more mahhaha, and still more mahahahaha)'*Can't wait 🙂
Find me so i can kill your ass.
w00t got my 1000 frags and 100 match badges today!