It's Official, Quake deathmatch is back and it's faster and betterlooking than ever, pitting you and up to 15 others in a furious futuristic joust Never before has there been a multiplayer shooting experience like it a challenge of skill that's so utterly pure and unadulterated. All of the chaos, all of the anger and every last drop of mayhem from Quake III has been siphoned out and rammed into an engine so sublime that it practically sucks you through your monitor and spits you out into another world, where a split-second can separate the vanquished from the victor.

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But enough about Quake 4's multiplayer.. For now anyway. Why? Because, my frag-frenzied friend, unlike its predecessor, Quake 4 isn't being sold as a multiplayer game. Y'see, some people whinged about Quake III: Arena's lack of single-player action. They moaned and they complained -then went off and made some tea - then they came back and moaned some more.

And so, in an attempt to alleviate their bleating, and in an effort to bring the best parts of Quake II and III into one unifiedall and all-conquering whole, id and Raven decided a return to the single-player campaigns of yore to complement what is undoubtedly the purest deathmatch experience in the known universe. Including Wigan town centre on a Saturday night. Yes, that pure.

A New Campaign

So, what's the single-player game like? Well, you play as Kane - a soldier embroiled in the seemingly never-ending Human/Strogg conflict from Quake ID, sent to an enemy planet to execute a daring raid that could turn the tide of the war. What follows is a rampaging ride of destruction, punctuated by periods of exposition and some slick cut-scenes that build the tension and raise the stakes ever higher as the campaign progresses, while a surprising plot twist halfway through adds some extra spice.

Your adventure is further enhanced by the stupendous Doom 3 engine, which makes your dark, sinister surroundings look more drop-dead gorgeous than Elie McPherson on a bed of cold meats, though admittedly, outdoor areas are still a problem. Pie physics are also almost beyond reproach, conveying a true sense of weight and realism to Quake 4's alien world, despite the occasionally erratic tumble taken by a felled opponent.

As for the combat it's also a winner. Visceral, intense, challenging.. Every bit the blood-caked battlefield we'd hoped it would be. From the opening mission to the final titanic confrontation, your trigger skills are tested to breaking point, especially on the higher difficulty levels that'll have even the most hardened FPS-nut pounding his (or her) fists in frustration.

World Ofhurt

Straight from the off, you're submerged into a world that genuinely looks and sounds like a warzone. Incessant, panicked radio chatter from other strike teams bursts through your headphones, and new orders filter down from command HQ as you scythe your way through wave after wave of pug-ugly nasties. Medics and technicians heal you and restore your armour - perhaps a little too often if truth be told - while certain specialists even beef up your weapons and make them more powerful and versatile.The feeling of isolation so prevalent in Doom 3 is nowhere to be seen, with solo missions often morphing into team-based affairs, pitting you and Al-controlled comrades atjainst overwhelming enemy forces. Plus, with a well-judged soundtrack -satisfyingly booming effects beefing up the atmosphere still further - you're never in any doubt that this is a world at war.

Enemy Within

Of course, all the atmosphere in the world is for nothing if a shooter's Al isn't up to scratch; and while Quake 4 is unlikely to win any awards for this, it doesn't disappoint either.

Strogg grunts in particular, harness their surroundings with lifelike intelligence, resulting in subtly strategic firefights as you and your Al-controlled comrades take cover and play cat and mouse against an equally ensconced enemy. And while other enemies' more direct, head-on attacks aren't so impressive, there's just about enough variation for things never to get too stale during the six to ten hours it'll take I to complete the game.

Top bad guy billing must go to the much-vaunted Gladiator, a towering warrior armed with a shouldermounted laser and an energy shield, who's so mean he'd probably spit his lead fillings at you if he thought they'd do you some damage. These boys are no easy kill - especially once their shield is up - and without lashings of skill and speed you'll soon wear the reload key down to a stump.

Size Isn't Everything

Quake 4's collection of mammoth (health bar-toting) bosses are somewhat of a disappointment, though. Brilliantly introduced through ever rising tension and lush cut-scenes, the majority of them turn out to not only be less intelligent than a garden rake but also incredibly easy to dispose of.

And let's not forget the much-vaunted, all-new vehicular sections, which see you either manning stationary weapons while someone else takes the wheel, or piloting the likes of hover tanks and walkers. What are they like? Well, I'm sorry to say, they're also a bit of a letdown. Despite these sections' obvious appeal, they're likely to leave you flatter than a catwalk model's chest that's just had a nasty encounter with a trouser press. They just feel as though they've been lifted straight out of a console game - more Halo than Quake - and as a result are often little more than mik entertaining distractions that break up the on-foot shootouts. Pity.

So, despite a few shortfalls, everything you'd expect and wish for from a singleplayer Quake campaign is here. Frenetic action: check. Huge end-of-level bosses: check. Lots of satisfying weaponry: check. Zombies: check. Yup, it's all there.Then of course there are the staples of any modern day FPS. Vehicular combat: check. Scripted moments that depict the hideous deaths of your comrades: check.

Ambient conversations between periphery characters that fill in background information: check. Again, all there. So why is it, despite all this, I can't help but feel that Quake 4's solo campaign is fundamentally lacking something? Perhaps it's because there's such a fine line these days between harking back to past glories through intelligently-judged homage, and blatantly recreating what's come before; Quake 4 never even comes close to pushing any FPS boundaries.

Beneath the high production values, lashings of veneer and excellent combat, the single-player campaign feels incredibly derivative. Why - for example -15 years after the birth of the FPS, are we still being dished up scores of strategically positioned exploding barrels, and bosses with health bars over their heads that are easier to outsmart than a toddler?

What's more, it's a sad day when one of the founding fathers of the PC first-person shooter genre is watered down with console-style vehicular sections, simply because they bare a resemblance to Halo and therefore are very likely to appeal to the Xbox market. This propensity to imitate rather than innovate doesn't make Quake 4 a bad game - far from it in fact - but it does make it a lesser game than it could and should have been.

Fight!

Which brings me back to multiplayer -the part of this package that really shines, standing out like a beacon of such brilliance that most other deathmatch (and CTF, TDM and Last Man Standing) experiences are dazzled into submission. The new levels are masterfully created, each one requiring a subtly different approach than the next, while never losing the exhilaration factor. And if that's not enough, there's even a return for a few old favourites such as DM17 Sure, you could argue it's much the same as Quake III, but the point here is that no-one else does pure seat-of-your-Y-fronts deathmatching quite like Quake.

By all means, enjoy the single-player game, marvel at its visuals, groan at its cliches and enjoy its firefights. However, I can guarantee that six months from now, as you fly through the air firing rockets and screaming in rage in an attempt to take out that railgunning bastard who's just fried your brains five times in quick succession -while all around bodies explode into a thousand blood-caked giblets - you'll have forgotten all about it That's the beauty of deathmatch.That's the beauty of J A Quake 4.

Usual Suspects

New look, same weapons?

For the most part, Quake 4's weapons are exactly the same as Quake Ill's, although they have all had a makeover. Disappointingly, there's still no secondary fire option for any of them, which has to go down as an opportunity missed.

Old favourites like the lightning gun, plasma rifle, rocket launcher and rail gun make a welcome return, and the gauntlet has been replaced by a pistol with infinite ammo in the singleplayer game - though thankfully not in multiplayer. However, receiving the biggest welcome back!' bearhug is the nail gun, which proves every bit as meaty as you'd expect, though it's still not a patch on the BFG, which reprises its original area damage model.

Still, perhaps the best weapon idea in Quake 4 is also the game's simplest. In single-player, only your two weakest weapons are fitted with a torch. Given the shadow-filled nature of the game, that leaves you with rather an interesting choice. Light and a crap weapon, or darkness and a powerful one? The decision is yours.

.: March 24, 2006.: April 14, 2006Mode(s),Quake 4 is a video game, the fourth title in the. The game was developed by and published. Raven Software collaborated with, the creators and developers of preceding Quake games. Id Software supervised the development of the game as well as providing the engine upon which it was built.

Quake 4 in early October 2005 and was released on October 18, 2005 for and later for and, as well as being a launch title for the. A special DVD Collectors Edition was released, including promotional material and the game with its expansions, The Reckoning and Ground Zero. The Xbox 360 version of Quake 4 is based on the Special Collectors Edition, and includes Quake II.

On August 4, 2011, the game was made available through.Plotwise, the game is a sequel to and takes place during the same war as. Compared to other titles in the Quake series, Quake 4 has an increased emphasis on the single-player portion of the game. A multiplayer mode is available, but it does not involve playable bots like Quake III Arena.

This section needs expansion. You can help. ( March 2019)Quake 4 has a stronger emphasis on single-player than its predecessor and features a campaign that continues the story of.

However, it lacks the bot matchmaking offered in.The campaign's gameplay is mostly the same as in the multiplayer but also adds friendly NPC squad members that can aid you in combat. The game also features outdoor vehicle sections during certain missions, where you can control walkers and tanks.Multiplayer Multiplayer modes are, Tourney, Arena CTF and DeadZone. Players at reported the multiplayer gameplay to include elements similar to those in previous Quake games such as. Notable additions to play are the ability to send shots through the and the advancement of the game physics provided by the new technology including the ability to bounce grenades and napalm fire off of jump-pads.Like the previous Quake games, the multiplayer has a client-server architecture. The network code has been altered from Doom 3, allowing for larger numbers of players on each server; Doom 3 has a four-player restriction, whereas Quake 4 has a standard 16 player limit.Movement The player movement in Quake 4 is similar to that in and, but with the additions of ramp jumping and crouch slides.

Crouch slides give players the ability to maintain speed by sliding around corners. Ramp jumps allow players to gain extra height from jumping as they reach the top of an inclined object, which while present in the original and was not included in.Plot.

Corporal Matthew Kane prepares to take out the Strogg Nexus with his Rail GunThe Quake 4 single player mode continues the story of by pitting the player against a known as the. The game follows the story of a Marine Corporal named Matthew Kane who is joining the elite Rhino Squad. Following the success of the protagonist of Quake II in destroying the Strogg's leader, the Makron, Rhino Squad is tasked with spearheading the mission to secure the aliens' home planet Stroggos.

In the course of the invasion, the squad ship is shot down and crashes in the middle of a battle zone, separating Kane from his companions. Kane rejoins his scattered team members and partakes in the assault against the Strogg.After performing a number of tasks, such as destroying and capturing Strogg aircraft hangars and defense systems, Kane and his remaining squad members make it to the USS Hannibal. There they are given their next mission: infiltrating one of the Strogg's central communication hubs, the Tetranode, with an bomb in the hope that it will put the main Strogg Nexus in disarray. Kane is tasked with defending the mission convoy, which takes heavy casualties. After many setbacks, including the destruction of the EMP device by a Strogg ambush, Kane is left to complete the mission, assisted only by Private Johann Strauss and Lance Corporal Nikolai 'Sledge' Slidjonovitch. Strauss figures out a way to destroy the core by shutting down its coolant systems. As Kane reaches the entrance to the Tetranode, however, he is greeted by two rocket-equipped network guardians, as well as the newly constructed Makron, which easily defeats Kane and knocks him unconscious.When Kane awakens, he finds himself strapped to a conveyor belt in the Strogg 'Medical Facilities', a structure used for turning those captured and killed by the aliens either into protein food or additional Strogg units.

In a long and gruesome first-person, Kane is taken through this 'stroggification' process which violently replaces much of his anatomy with bio-mechanical parts. Before the final controlling neurochip implanted in his brain can be activated, though, Rhino Squad bursts into the facility and rescues Kane. After escaping through the Strogg medical facility and Waste Disposal plant, fighting off zombie-like half-stroggified humans along the way, Kane is forced to combat his former commander, Lieutenant Voss (Michael Gannon), who has been fully stroggified into a powerful mechanized monster but retains his own consciousness long enough to warn Kane.

After defeating this threat, Kane and the remaining marines finally make it back to the Hannibal.The commanders realize that Kane's Strogg physiology has opened up new possibilities for defeating the Strogg, as he can be used to infiltrate locations and teleportation areas previously impenetrable and/or fatally harmful to human forces. The new plan is to directly target the Strogg Nexus Core, a huge centralized brain-like structure which controls the alien forces. The Marines are tasked with infiltrating the three data towers adjacent to the Nexus: Data Storage, Processing, and Networking. There, they will deactivate the Nexus' shield and power up the teleporter used to access the Nexus and send Kane in. Once inside, Kane will travel to the center of the Nexus to destroy the Core Brain and its guardian.After infiltrating the facility and realigning the data nodes powering the teleporter, and destroying its fearsome 'Guardian' creature, Kane reaches the Nexus core.

There he meets the Makron in a final showdown and kills it. This accomplished, he destroys the Core and returns to the Hannibal. Celebrating with Rhino Squad afterward, Kane receives word that he has new orders. Development The version of Quake 4 was released at the launch of the Xbox 360 and is compatible. There have been major issues with frame rates for the console adaptation, earning it the award for Most Aggravating Frame Rate/Best Slideshow in the GameSpot.com Best and Worst of 2005 list. In addition, the Xbox 360 port of Quake 4 has very long load times and Xbox Live glitches that result in problematic multiplayer experiences, as documented by game review sites as well as on Activision's support pages for the Xbox 360 version. This version was initially priced the same as the PC Special Edition DVD and features the same content.

Aspyr Media published and released Quake 4 for on April 5, 2006, initially only for based, but later as a compatible with both - and -based. Continued its tradition of supporting, with of id releasing a Linux version of the Quake 4 binary executable. The binary can be downloaded for free from id's servers and it requires a licensed copy of Quake 4 for Windows or OS X in order to run. The Linux installer was made available two days after the release of the game itself.Having worked on the theme music for, and, were brought in to compose and produce the main theme respectively for Quake 4.The rest of the music were composed by Raven's audio leads, Zachary Quarles and.On April 11, 2012, it was announced that Quake 4 would be re-released for the Xbox 360 and PC on June 19, with publication handled by Bethesda. In Europe, the game was launched in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Benelux territories.

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It was released in the United Kingdom on June 22. Unlike the original Xbox 360 version, the Bethesda re-release does not include the port of Quake II.Like its predecessors, Quake 4 can be modified. This led to Quake 4 versions of popular mods from previous versions of Quake, such as, and Quake 4 Fortress (the Quake 4 version of ). Quake 4 Fortress was abandoned before its creators considered it complete; instead they released an alpha version complete with source code. In the competitive gaming scene, there were two principal mods, Q4Max and X-Battle.

The online Quake 4 competitive community was split between the two mods. A number of the online leagues switched between X-Battle and Q4Max, such as ClanBase EuroCup and GGL. Despite this split in the online community, the offline professional LAN tournaments run by CPL, ESWC, WCG, QuakeCon, and WSVG all used Q4Max. Members of both the Q4Max and X-Battle teams joined forces with Adam 'SyncError' Pyle of and developed another mod, Delta CTF, which brought style to Quake 4. Another notable mod is SABot, which successfully implemented multiplayer bots in Quake 4 less than a month after the was released, despite this being a feature that some reviewers criticised Quake 4 for not including. Reception ReceptionAggregate scoresAggregatorScorePC: 82%X360: 76%PC: 81/100X360: 75/100Review scoresPublicationScorePC: B-X360: B+PC: 7/10X360: 6/10C+PC: 8.0/10X360: 6.6/10PC:X360:8.9/108.2/10VideoGamer.com8/10Quake 4 's computer version received a 'Silver' sales award from the (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom.Quake 4 received generally favorable reviews regarding the version of the game, with game database giving the game an aggregate review score of 81/100.

Websites and magazines such as and praised its single-player campaign, graphics and Hollywood voice-acting, but complained that its multiplayer was too much like Quake III 's. Gave Quake 4 an 8.0 and it also said: 'The single-player is great fun, but the uninspired multiplayer leaves a lot to be desired.' Gave Quake 4 a good review for both singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay.The original 2005 version of the game fared slightly worse with critics when it was released but still received generally positive reviews, scoring 75/100 on Metacritic. The only exception for that is, where they gave the PC version a score of 'B-' but the Xbox 360 version a score of 'B+'. Gave a mixed rating to the Xbox 360 port. It panned the single-player campaign for not being creative enough to compete with other games such as and noted that the game ran poorly on the 360. IGN scored Quake 4 8.1/10, saying 'Quake 4 is one of those games that will appeal to console gamers who haven't owned a PC for years.

The single-player campaign is varied and pretty interesting, getting better after you're Stroggified. The enemies go from dumb and running right at you to diverse and more interesting in the second half of the game, and there are a few cool boss fights worth your while. The gory graphics and excellent lighting are well done and they'll appeal to many gamers looking for a fast, shiny game to just let loose on.' GameSpot gave it a worse rating than the PC version: 6.6. They also wrote, 'There's a good game in Quake 4, but it's buried under several layers of highly disappointing graphical performance issues.'

Gave the Xbox 360 version a 3/5 and the PC version a 4/5. Quake 4 was a finalist for 's 'Best Multiplayer Game 2005' award, which ultimately went to.In 2016, former id Software employee and original Quake director expressed his disappointment over the direction of Quake 4.