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Editorial Review:
The release of Battlefield 1942 for the PC in 2002 was a milestone for online gaming, creating a highly popular middle ground between traditional first person shooters and massively multiplayer online games. Like Battlefield this new game is essentially online-only, featuring huge battles between opposing forces of humans and aliens, with each side possessing a completely different set of vehicles and weapons.
Although it’s set in the Quake universe the connections to the other games are not important. As you might imagine the overarching plotline is not the going to be winning any literary awards either, but actually the game is much better at telling a story than many of its contemporaries. Instead of just capturing flags or anonymous control points all of the game’s levels have a very complex series of interconnected objectives. For example, you might be assaulting a based requiring you to first bridge a gorge, then knock out anti-aircraft batteries, before taking down the base’s shield generators. Character classes are just as involved, with engineers, field ops and the rest all having a very different range of weapons and equipment. As complex as all that sound though you can still choose to ignore it all entirely and just play as a soldier and run around shooting bad guys.
Although developed by British team Splash Damage this includes the latest in graphical technobabble from original Quake creators iD Software, in the form of MegaTextures. The idea is that texture patterns are never repeated and there’s no fogging or pop-up at all. Whatever the technology used though the game is hugely impressive to look at and after the mild disappointment of Battlefield 2142 looks certain to become the next big thing in online PC gaming. HARRISON DENT
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Just brilliant for the price This is just brilliant for the price. If you are a fan of some multiplayer shooting fun - this is your game. Excellent graphics (thanks to ID tech), smooth and balanced gameplay will guarantee long hours of fun.
Decidedly average This could have been great, but too many faults make it fall short - one of the more noticeable is the weapons just seem to lack power, in CoD4 you get a sense of power of the guns your firing, in QW:ET it feels like using water pistols. There's nothing massively wrong with this game but as a whole it doesn't quite gel. Also when I first attempted to install this game I had lot of problems with Ati card, there's been a quite a few patches released that seem to have sorted out the problems but it still... more info
Won;t even work!! I can;t even get the game to work properly, checked all my pc setings and they seem ok, i have over the minimum requirements and latest nvidia card.
After doing a google search i found that 1000's of other people have the same problem as me and cannot play the game due to ultra slow frame rate where by the game almost freezes constantly. Shame!
Unsure at first but grew to love it I was looking forward to this game coming out ever since I saw the trailer for it. When I first played it offline against bots I thought it was quite fun but its not until you take this game online that it comes into its own. Bots can be predictable and not prone to human error. The basic premise of the game is thus: One team attacks and the other defends. There are two species you can be. GDF (human) and Strogg (alien) each species has 5 different sub-classes all with their own unique skills so a good... more info
