>:(
I'm a huge Quake fan, especially when it comes to Quake 2. I was also a huge ET fan until the game came down to a medic deathmatch. So when I heard that they were making Enemy Territory: Quake Wars I damn near made in my pants. After downloading and playing all I can say is.....
I've been waiting all this time for THIS?!?!
Control and movement are sluggish and rough.
The graphics are messy.
The model and textures are abrasive and disorganized.
You can't steal vehicles.
The weapons are all super accurate.
Vehicles and base defenses....???????????
Sure some of these things can be helped in due time....SOME. They've really stuck their foot in their mouths this time though. I distinctly remember a claim that this isn't going to be like "THOSE OTHER GAMES" referring to and describing the battlefield series. What's with the semi/"ultra" realistic physics? Aiming was at least possible in battlefield!
I wish this was like ET OR Quake but it's not even close to either and that makes me mad more than anything. Sad part is I see this game being the next huge thing while the battlefield series goes into the hackers' garbage can like Counter-Strike and Command & Conquer franchise finally falls from EA's butt and get flushed.
Welcome to the new age of gaming! (insert picture of..... nevermind. That's not polite.) My biggest problem with this game and many MANY other new games is they aren't games anymore. They were made to look and feel like real life. Some games pull it off and the game is semi-playable but for the most part the realistic games aren't any fun. (note: bf series isn't realistic to me)
I bought it.
I'm with Zomboner's initial appraisal. I thought it was going to be WF on steroids, and it's not. I know my aim's not perfect like some of these kids who do nothing but play with themselves and play video games, but after emptying a clip into a guy at point blank only to have him turn and kill me ones with the shotgun... meh.
That and the admin on the server I was playing on is an asshat, so I'm even more disgruntled right now. Grr.
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I've played this a little bit now. For the most part, I like it. Really what I don't like is that it seems as though my screen is cluttered with text. I'll have to explore some menu options to see if I can turn off some of this info.
My First Impressions
Well...I have my own say on this game. At first...I was kinda disappointed in it. But the more I played it...and compaired it to BF2 and BF2142 the more I liked and prefered it. First off all...the movement isn't slow and clunky at all...actually I find its rather fast paced, its rather easy to get around even with out a plane or jeep. All the weapons have alot of kick to them, it reminds me alot of quake2. Everyone has killing power in a different way and there is now death counter! Its allmost all about attacking even when protecting. The graphics on my game are rather impressive on a medium and high mixed setting, though the ground is a little low on the geometry side...thats fine its just a road or a cliff :P
The things I'm unimpressed with is some of the fact that all the weapons are....a bit overly accurate. I was shooting someone with a assult rifle...at distance consistantly from like 1000 meters full auto. Also...the strogg are a little over powered, the icarus packs are too...good. Too effective against vehicals that have a hard time hitting them as they jump around like crazy. And snipers are a little over powered with one shot kills to any body part.
first impressions
I played for half an hour and thought it was alright. My computer is about as craptastic as yours, but I am rather happy that load time seems to be shorter than bf2. First impression: On whatever default crap setting I was using everything seems to run smoothly, but it wasn't all that easy to tell The map seems slighter smaller in comparison and the pace seems faster.
Need more time to figure out the class strengths and whatever the hell each weapon/vehicle/structure does.
i get errors when trying to
i get errors when trying to start the demo. no go
beta woked for me :(
Got it to work, barely. I'm
Got it to work, barely. I'm guessing it's an ATI problem because it now does exactly what bf2 does. The screen goes all fractal and fucked.
Easy to point whore if you stick to your role missions. Recoil needs getting used to, as well as the reload delay on certain weapons.