Yay, $49 down the shitter. Here I come, Ebay.
The graphics are fairly nice, but it's just another trigger-based first person shooter. In fact, that's the shittiest thing about it. I heard going into it that it was very "non-Doom 3", wherein you'd be walking down a hallway and as you pass a certain point you trigger a monster who jumps out at you, a system that's probably the worst thing to ever happen to video games.
Well Quake 4 is exactly like that. It's all hallways and locked doors, and you can't progress until you do something trivial to unlock the door you have to go through. Very directed, very systematic. You walk down a hallway, reach a certain point, a monster comes around the corner ahead of you, you shoot at each other, more monsters come, you shoot them too, you find the switch you have to hit (computer panels with touch-screens in this oh-so creative futuristic variation), and then you back track and proceed through the formerly locked door.
This is pretty much the entire game, with some classic "bosses" thrown in. In fact, it's pretty much Quake 2 with updated graphics. Which I guess is appropriate since the story takes place immediately after the events of Quake 2. But it's pretty gay. If you've ever played a computer game in your life (not counting Quake 2), you've played this one already. I really can't stress enough that it is not worth the money. Spend it on a dinner date instead. At leat you might get laid afterwards.
The graphics are fairly nice, but it's just another trigger-based first person shooter. In fact, that's the shittiest thing about it. I heard going into it that it was very "non-Doom 3", wherein you'd be walking down a hallway and as you pass a certain point you trigger a monster who jumps out at you, a system that's probably the worst thing to ever happen to video games.
Well Quake 4 is exactly like that. It's all hallways and locked doors, and you can't progress until you do something trivial to unlock the door you have to go through. Very directed, very systematic. You walk down a hallway, reach a certain point, a monster comes around the corner ahead of you, you shoot at each other, more monsters come, you shoot them too, you find the switch you have to hit (computer panels with touch-screens in this oh-so creative futuristic variation), and then you back track and proceed through the formerly locked door.
This is pretty much the entire game, with some classic "bosses" thrown in. In fact, it's pretty much Quake 2 with updated graphics. Which I guess is appropriate since the story takes place immediately after the events of Quake 2. But it's pretty gay. If you've ever played a computer game in your life (not counting Quake 2), you've played this one already. I really can't stress enough that it is not worth the money. Spend it on a dinner date instead. At leat you might get laid afterwards.
