Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena is a multiplayer first-person shooter computer and video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software, ported by Raster Productions, released by Sega, and features music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly. Quake III Arena is the third in the series and focuses on multi-player action. The single-player is instead played against computer controlled bots.

Features

Quake III Arena’s aim is to frag or to kill enemy players and score points based on the game mode’s objective such as capturing the enemy flag. When a player’s health points reach zero, that player’s avatar is fragged; in the majority of modes the player can then respawn and continue playing, health restored, but without previously gathered weapons and power-ups. Games end when a player or team reaches a score or time-limit. Game modes include deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, and tournament. Notable features of Quake III Arena include the minimalist design, lacking rarely used items and features, the extensive customizability of player settings such as field of view, texture detail and enemy model, and advanced movement features such as strafe-jumping that give more speed with greater skill in contrast to the digital, all or nothing design of many computer games. The game also features 4 players online play versus Dreamcast and PC gamers.