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Unreal tournament or Quake3.Which one to buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For a long time Ive been wanting to get unreal tournament.I did not want to get quake3 because my bro had it.After playing both,I learned i should have saved the money.UT is a slow game that seems extremly boring.The internet is bad,and the old taunts played over and over.With Quake 3 It is a fast moving game with many unique bots.From the soldier from Doom to a undead skeleton.This game ia awsome.Also there are a good selection of guns that are easy to tell what they are.The gibs and blood are extemly realistic and make it so cool.In UT the blood is so cheaply animated.all you see are a couple of little red pixels.Also in Q3,the internet is one of the best ways to play because you can meet many people and use items that you cant use in singleplayer.Like the grapplehook.One flaw in quake3 is that there are not as many game choices than UT,but who cares,The game is always fun.Q3 really did take their time to make this a very good game.Im planning to buy quake3 so throw your Unreal tournament copies out because you will never get sick of quake3.

Great for OS X

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you've read my Unreal Tournament review, you know that I REALLY love UT. However, I finally got a reason to buy Quake III Arena, it runs on OS X. BEAUTIFULLY. It is still more cartoony than UT, and is harder to control (It goes WAY too fast to be believed) but it runs on OS X. even on my little iMac. You just have to download the newest version after you install the CD. And BANG your gamin'. I originally would only give this game 3 stars, but with the OS X compatibility came an extra.

Necris

kicks butt

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Cool game. Love the Mods, havn't done much playing with it on X yet, need to get the update I guess. I gave it 4 starrs instead of 5 because I play more UT mods... ( I guess they're more Mac friendly)

Pretty Fun, I Prefer UT

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Quake 3 Arena has fun deathmatch-style gameplay, but the Quake 3 engine is really quite terrible. The graphics quality is far from stunning (older games like the original Unreal look far better, even when Quake 3 has the settings all the way up). Quake 3 also has a slow engine. Even with the settings turned all the way down to help performance, framerates (specifically with smoke, but also in general) are dismal on lower-end computers, and not really all that high on the high-end ones. I should also mention that Quake 3 has netcode that can be unplayable even on broadband (bullets hitting a few seconds after firing, etc). Fun gameplay is about all that this game has going for it, but if you really want a good deathmatch and graphics aren't the main concern, go get Quake1 and QuakeWorld -- even a modem user can generally play that online without too much lag.

EDIT: I've seen some amazing graphics in recent games using the Quake3 engine. It must have just been poorly implemented in the original game.

quake3 for mac in brazil

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: March 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

how i can buy this game "quake3 mac3" ?

Nice

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

NICE! NICEEE! this is the ultimate death match and I hope they make quake 4 sooner than later.....it ran fine on my 500mhz MAC!

Send in the clones

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: December 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Out of the box Q3A is terrible. It's like a Q2 clone, with all the same old weapons. Q3A is like a Friday the 13th movie nothing new and the format is just plain lame. I originally bashed UT but compared to Q3A, UT is a godsend. Maybe some of the Mods for Q3A will help but they better be some damn good Mods. Hopefully TF2 will save the First Person Shooter, cause Q3A sure doesn't.

they got it right

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This one was a real surprise to me - I usually play shooters like Quake/Doom/Descent in single player mode because in europe we have bad (and expensive) net connections. But from the start it behaved like a multiplayer - no huge levels to explore, backtracking etc. just straight into the fun.

Basically it felt like playing with real people - the other figures can get pretty aggressive. But they also turn on each other rather than all going for you. And they all run around a lot so it feels much more like a Multiplayer. The fun fact is that it is easier to win a game with loads of enemies than one with just one - because in the latter case then (s)he focuses on you.

It's fast and furious, levels are not too big, lots of secret areas, designed with just fun in mind. The graphics are in a class of its own, comparable to descent3 - very colorful! Makes a great difference to Q2. Gameplay is fantastic if you have a PC fast enough and a good 3d accelerator.

Quake 3 Arena Mac, Linux and IBM

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

There is a mistake with the information. It says that there isa flamethrower and that there are types of classes, light, medium, andheavy. But infact there are no classes and no flamethrower in the game. This is a great game for any operating system and I gave it a five, it holds up to the greatness of the Quake series. It is, in my opinion better than half life and Unreal/Unreal Tovurnement

It's pretty good!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Although it IS incredebly demonic with crucified bodies and those little Lucifer stars everywhere, it has great graphics. If your looking for a great online game, this and Unreal Tournament definantly match the bill. But, if you need to decide between one or the other, get UT. Because Q3 is so dark, gloomy, and bland, UT is a whole lot more colorful than Q3. UT is also expandable with maps and mods galore. The only feature in this that tops UT is that Q3 has curved surfaces, but UT makes up for it with great physics and cool futuristic levels (for the most part, if you like old fashioned castle tpye levels, UT has plenty of those, too).

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