Quake III Arena
The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.
Quake III Arena is a fps, arena shooter and action game
developed and published by id Software.
Released on August 03rd 2007 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 3,664 reviews of which 3,512 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
3-D Hardware Accelerator with full OpenGL® support, Pentium® 233 Mhz MMX®processor with 8 MB Video Card or Pentium II 266 Mhz processor with 4 MB Video Card, or AMD® 350 Mhz K6®-2 processor with 4 MB Video Card, 64 MB RAM, a 100% Windows® XP/Vista compatible computer system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for video card, sound card and input devices), 25 MB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files (Minimum Install), plus 45 MB for the Windows swap file, 100% DirectX 3.0 or higher compatible sound card, 100% Microsoft-compatible mouse and driver, joystick (optional)
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It's terribly difficult to put into words how much Quake III means to me, but I'll briefly attempt to do so regardless. If you totaled all of my hours on various ioquake3 mods together with Quake Live, my hours would total in the high hundreds (maybe more). My biological and social experience of growing up as a human being was, and still is haunted by memories of Quake III. When I skip to the bus stop in the early morning, I cavort to my destination in imitation of Bitterman's bunnyhop . When I defend myself from the beasts of my nightmares, I do so with the Lightning Gun . Quake III was the second womb I lived in, and when I expire I ought to be buried with a copy of her cradled in my arms. What for most people is a game like any other is my providence, my truest and most uncompromising love. I need her like a flower needs sunlight To recount some chronicles: [*]Dudes from Czechia asking 7 year old me what my favorite beer is, and to never forget that Czech beer is the best (I don't drink and I've never had Czech beer, but it's still the best). [*]My teenage self asking the server who was playing on Linux, to which someone replied: "We all are dumbass" [*]Realizing I can put Sonic characters in Quake for the first time [*]My father burning the soundtrack onto a disc and playing it in the car [*]Watching & reacting to the 2014 World Cup with a whole server [*]Dueling a German guy after he begged me to do so, and proceeding to play other games with him via Skype afterwards [*]Getting an addict to ragequit with some help from a friend And many more that I've either forgotten or that I am yet to remember. The purpose of life is to know God and enter Heaven, yes. My eyes began dripping like flowstones of an ancient cave when I realized she had lived within me all along. It is the greatest multiplayer FPS of all time. There cannot be another. To be fair, it would be impossible for any game to live up to the blank slate mystique that my Quake III will forever possess.
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Played this in 2000's with friends on Lan party. I can't believe its been over 24 yrs this game still rocking. I wish ID Software devs remaster this game with the latest gen graphics. I highly recommend this game if you really like fast pace multiplayer shooting game.
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Welcome to the Arena. Dennis Fong won John Carmack's Ferrari 328 as part of a Quake 1 MP championship in 1997, ID knew how fun it was to run around in Doom MP, they made Quake more fast and more vertical, when developing Q3A they decided to focus fully on MP and as a result, arguably created the competitive FPS genre or at the very least propelled it, trailblazing with the id tech 3 engine, which was used for Call of Duty, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, and had a lot of code which Valve's goldsrc used - that's right, HL1, CS, and COD owe a lot of their success to the blueprint that ID discovered and crafted. Carmack has said in later years that Q3A was never designed to be this brutal game that is very difficult to learn, it just worked out that way, just like in Chess if you fail it's really your fault, there isn't anything to get lucky with aside from some great prefires or spam or happening to run into someone, but there's no artificial way to take the lead, you just have to be better than your opponent, and as a result, if you're interested in proving who the best player is, Q3A offers one of the most balanced experiences for a real fair competitive arena. It's really hard to overstate how profound Q3A was for the time it was released, it took an absolute beast of a PC to run at good FPS - back then almost no one was sitting on 200fps and almost no one was above 75hz or 100hz on a CRT. The atmosphere was moody, the game was dark and intimidating, but at the core of it, as a player, it never feels like the game is against you or punishing you, it is FAIR, brutally so, there is no "escape" button to save you, the character designs are kinda wacky, the bot DM maps and bosses ease you in - starting from Q3DM0 the first map against Crash, a very small hallway with only one or two weapons and two opposing spawn points - this is amazing game design - teaching you everything you need to know to get started before throwing you into a deathmatch with multiple bots. As a kid I gained my skills in those offline deathmatches, and I went online and got blasted, I sat in awe of the skill that some players seemed to have, instead of being discouraged I wanted to live in the world they did - where they were able to put the game on and dominate. So many iconic memories of playing on maps like The Longest Yard - a map where you have access to a railgun, multiple opponents, and almost zero hiding spots and cover, if you had good aim (most people were using rollerball mice pre 2006!) you'd be able to pick players off while hearing that reassuring "IMPRESSIVE, EXCELLENT" driving the dopamine home, iconic. ID were a bunch of guys who were having fun making the games they thought were great, they had no business blueprint to achieving annual ROI, they had no formula to follow, they operated in a free creative arena and as a result created one of the most fun and balanced competitive arena shooters of all time, dare I say the best, still, because in my eyes, yes it is dated but which modern title can I say is crafted better, overall? Thanks for reading!
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This is the game that made love fps games , I WAS only 6 yrs old when i first discovered this game and played on my oldest cousins computer LAN with older kids , i was the only 6 yrs old kid playing so i learned quick , Playing this game still by today 2024 and im sure i will keep playing it till the end of the days , back in the days there was no CSGO this was all we had and thanks to QUAKE we got other fps shooter games today . AMAZINNNNNN RECOMMEND %10000000000000000000000000000
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Quake III Arena is developed by id Software and released in 1999. This third episode abandons the linear story mode of the two previous games, preferring to focus brilliantly on arena combat and multiplayer. This is one of the last great iconic FPS games of the 90s, and one of the most cult Arena Shooters ever released. This episode does not offer a single player campaign strictly speaking, but a series of levels in which you fight to the death for your survival, against opponents without mercy, in arenas full of weapons, jump pads, and power-ups of all kinds. Sharpen your reflexes and prepare for wild gunfights, against battle-hardened and ferocious bots. Q3A's gameplay is hectic, intense, and brutal. Bots are fast, responsive and skillful, giving rise to fierce battles, leaving you almost no second of respite, as long as you play on a high difficulty (like Hardcore), giving all its flavor to the game. A large choice of levels is available, all more lugubrious and demonic than the others, comprising oppressive steel corridors littered with skulls and flaming torches, dried blood, lava and rust, all topped by infernal skies. Most of the maps have an unforgettable level design and style, here is an anthology of my favorites, each having an infamous name: "Arena Gate", "The Places of Many Deaths", "The Campgrounds", "Brimstone Abbey", "Hell's Gate"... Any cult FPS must have weapons worthy of the name, and Quake III can boast of having 9 of the most effective weapons in the entire FPS genre, among which the most important are described below. The Double Barrel Shotgun has phenomenal power at close range, and will annihilate anyone within close range. The Rocket Launcher is very powerful and accurate, and kills in one or two hits, it is also practical for doing Rocket Jumps and reaching high surfaces. The Railgun is a laser cannon with perfect precision, and kills in two shots except headshot, it can act as a sniper rifle for fans of ranged combat. The Machine Gun and Plasma Gun are the two submachine guns in the game, the first being available from spawn, and the second being much more powerful. The Lightning Gun fires electricity continuously, and although its power seems limited, its very high rate of fire makes it a weapon not to be underestimated. Several items to collect spice up the games, while others just allow you to survive longer in this chaos. In addition to health and armor points, but also weapons and ammunition, several powerups are available, granting superb time-limited benefits to the player who picks them up. "Haste" increases your character's speed and weapon rate of fire by 30%. "Quad Damage" multiplies your weapon damage by 3, and no, that's not a typo... "Regeneration" heals you little by little for 30 seconds, up to a maximum of 200HP. "Invisibility" makes you transparent for 30 seconds, useful for surprising your opponents. "Personal Teleporter" is an activatable item, which teleports you to a random respawn point. "Personal Medkit" is also an activatable item, and instantly restores your health up to 125HP. The different characters have an inimitable design, and have for the most part become icons of the "Boomer Shooter" as they say nowadays. Here are some of the game's most famous fighters: Ranger is the main character of the first Quake, who needs no introduction. Bitterman is the hero we play in Quake II, what more can be said? Doom is better known as Doomguy, and represents id Software's cult franchise. Anarki is the only character to have a multi-colored name, he is also recognizable thanks to his hoverboard, Orbb is a huge eyeball with a small mechanical body and vaguely human legs. Klesk is a sort of orange alien with a demonic appearance. Sarge, like the previous character, reminds me so much of the PS2 version called "Quake III Revolution", which I had so much fun playing with at the time. The soundscape is as undoubtedly successful as everything else. The Q3A OST is one of my favorites in all games, that’s saying something! Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly made a masterpiece of Industrial Metal, very hardcore and heavy, which will delight all music-loving metalheads of which I am a part, and highlighting all the power and brutality of this sublime game. Let's not forget the hoarse voice of the Announcer, and his famous "Excellent" when we do two frags in two seconds, or "Impressive" when you hit two enemies in a row without missing with the Railgun. How to write an objective review of such an FPS monument? It's a difficult exercise as Quake III represents the quintessence of the FPS, and the excellent Arena Shooter genre which is now defunct. Q3A symbolizes excellence in all areas: fast, brutal, gory, enjoyable, beautiful and gripping, id Software's game is simply masterful, and is essential for anyone who claims to be a gamer and FPS fan. Long live Quake III Arena !
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