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get UT instead

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: April 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Q4 is sophisiticated and detailed enough, however, as far as game play goes -- it's rather mundane. the graphics are all dark, creating a cozy feel of playing in one's unlit closet, and the movement is rather lame and limited. having played UT2004, i cannot understand why any one would prefer Q4 save n00bs. there is some eye candy to this game, but, altogether, this game is quite a bad pretext to sup up one's pc. just wait for UT2007 to come out and save your money.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played it for 2 hours and then uninstalled it. It's crap. Everyone online said they had to turn the game to it's lowest graphic settings to play. Avoid at all cost.

Loading problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I buy a piece of software, I expect it to run out of the box because I have a decent system. This took forever to load up on four discs and then blanks out when I start it up. I suppose there is a fix somewhere out there on the web, and I'll spend a few hours trying to get it figured out, but for the price, this is not to be forgiven no matter how dandy it might turn out to be (read the other reviews). If I'd saved my receipt (doh!), I'd just take it back for something else. Now I'm stuck.

quake 4

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

not as good as quake 2 for a first shooter game and it takes a lot of computer to run.

Won't even install

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have a Dell Inspiron with lots of resources, using Windows XP SP2. I have NEVER had an application fail to complete installation before. But Quake 4 did. In the middle of the fourth (!) disk, it just went to sleep. I just went to Activision's support web site, which is kind of a joke. Forget this buggy piece of junk.

What a pleasure

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoyed Doom 3..You will love the single player mode in this one also. I was saddened when the game came to a end. I wanted more. I have been looking everywhere for add on single player maps, but there isn't many. I can't say anything about online play, because I have never tried it. But single player is worth the price of the game. It will play pretty well on a Emachine also.

A Fun Game But...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I miss the Arena style Quake. I love competing on all the different levels offered in the Q3 Arena game. Good graphics, but a little easy...just point shoot and you advance.

Did I buy Doom 4 instead of Quake 4?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As with Doom 3, I didn't finish this game. Like D3 it's just mindless wandering through dimly lit mazes of bizarre machinery. Unlike D3 you don't have monsters suddenly popping up in your face, but the ambience is the same. Even with a fast rig it gagged sometimes and I had to play it at a lower res than I would have liked. I've been a FPS fan since Wolfenstein first came out, but I don't think I will buy any more ID games if they are going to be like this.

Great, but a few flaws i would like to inform

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Quake fans, FPS fans, PC gamer fans, whatever, this is a great game. The graphics and sound are great. The story line isnt horrible, however, I wasn't that impressed. The game comes with a bonus CD with 3 different versions of Quake 2 and lots of extras and movie/trailers for quake4. The weapons are fun, and dont take too long to get (unlike some games). You can even get weapon upgrades. Multiplayer is FLIPPIN SWEET!!! This is all adds up to build what i call "great in the most important ways".

I guess i just desribed the good stuff to you, so i think i will just get to what you need to worry about. In other words, heres the bad:

-The game has good graphics natuarly, so i wouldnt worry too much about the fact that the game requires lots of space and recommends you to have a good video card, or else you may experience some lags and slow, choppy movement (trust me, you DO NOT want to lag in multiplayer mode and lose the round because of it). If you go to video options, you can select 4 different visual qualities: Low, medium, high, and ULTRA FREAKIN HIGH!(its acualy just called "ultra high"). DO NOT select ultra high, no matter how tempted you are, it wil slow down your computer a ton; unless u spent like 1000 bucks on a video card.

-No melee atacks or grenades (although u do get a grenade launcher, which isnt even worth wielding by the way)

-very dark, and the only weapons that have a flash light are the 2 weakest weapons (well, the machine gun is OK i guess)

-Multiplayer is fun, but in every round there is always 1 player who seems to be better then everyone else and annoys the crap out of you, and always comes in 1st place.

-The game is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong...like, 60 minuts 1 hour and 59 minuts and 60 seconds long, just to complete like a 5th of the game. I have the manual, so i can go through the game quickly, and i look in the manual and see that i have been playing for like 6 hours and i only have a 4th done....its a very hard game , too (even on the easiest difficulty!).

-Besides the fact that the pistol you have well, pretty much sucks, which you must use when u run out of ammo (and trust me, you run out of ammo alot), thats pretty much it.

One more GOOD thing. As you probably know, many many games require you to search and run around for like an hour or so before you acualy get a weapon. Then, you must run around for another hour until you get to the action (halflife series, doom series, a little in halo, AREA 51). All the quake games let you start out with a gun, and the action kicks in in like... 2 minuts(quake 2 it starts like in 3 seconds).

So anyway, thats pretty much it. The reason why i only took off one star for alll those things is because most of them are pretty minor, and arent much of a problem once u get used to it. So overall, yeah, you should get this game. You will enjoy it, that is, as long as you enjoy FPS games. I know i might throw some people off cause this is a kids review, but seriously, i play FPS games alot, and lots of them. Dont let my age fool you, I know a good FPS game when i play one, and this is a good FPS game!

Solidly entertaining FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While Quake 4 will never win any awards for originality, it's still a fun FPS game with plenty of action, a few good "Holy crap!" moments, and lots of atmosphere. If you're a fan of high action first person shooters, you could do worse than picking up Quake 4.

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