Quake IV Impressions

[CaptainZombie]

I still haven't opened Quake IV for the 360 after hearing this about choppy framerate and so forth. Then I hear that the game is excellent. How is the gameplay and so forth?

[Flawless]

Re: Quake IV Impressions

Everything i've been hearing has been pretty positive, except for the occasional dips in framerate. Personally, I would play Quake IV on the PC, but I know alot of people don't have a rig that can run it.

Some quick impressions from somebody that I saw on another site.

Here is a sequel to one of the biggest franchises in first person shooters ever! So why aren’t more people enthused? Well, for one, they may have been turned off by Doom 3’s awesome graphics, but less than ambitious gameplay, and Quake 4 looks like it could be just more of the same. Well it is, and it isn’t. In the single player department, the game is very much the spiritual successor to Quake 2. In fact it takes up right where Quake 2 left off. The graphics have improved quite a bit since then, and we now have squadmates to help us through our mission as opposed to gunning it alone, but it is still a very straightforward shooter. The single player is much more interesting than Doom 3 though, because it eschews the monster closets of that game, and provides you with much more varied missions than just hunting demons in a dark room. Without giving away too much, there are also enough things that change throughout the course of the single player campaign to keep it from getting monotonous. In terms of multiplayer it is very much the successor to Quake 3. In fact it basically is Quake 3, with a little bit of a graphical overhaul. That means uber fast twitch shooting, rocket jumping, quad damage, and all those other things you’ve either grown to love or hate by now. The controls aren’t quite as tight as they should be, which is a critical flaw in a game this fast. So whether you love that Quake has, quite literally, stuck to its guns, or you hate that it hasn’t evolved in the wake of the Half-Life and Halos of the world, you’ve probably already made your decision about this game and you have a pretty good idea of how it will play. There’s a good chance though that if you already wanted to play this game, that you’ve done so on an awesome PC rig, which is probably the best place to experience this game if you have the specs.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: Quake IV Impressions

Everything i've been hearing has been pretty positive, except for the occasional dips in framerate. Personally, I would play Quake IV on the PC, but I know alot of people don't have a rig that can run it.

Some quick impressions from somebody that I saw on another site.

Thanks. I have a pretty decent PC, AMD Athlon 3200+, GeForce 6600 gt, 1 GB Ram, but I was looking for a FPS on the 360. Since I have liked the previous Quake's I thought that this would be a good pickup. I've been hearing so many things good and bad about this game that I'm confused myself.