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First Pictures of Quake IV

Posted by Zonk on from the on-wisconsin! dept.

Snaller writes "Yahoos GameDomain are looking ahead to 2005, and have the first pictures of Quake IV. For all those who have missed the Stroggs since Quake 2 - fear not, they are baaack! Quake IV will be made by Raven software using the Doom 3 engine."

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  1. PC Gamer by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 5, Informative
    There is a ten page (or so) interview/first look at Quake 4 in the November PC Gamer. In it they state (amongst other things):
    • With Doom 3 it was horror, with Quake 4 it's going to be war. Doom 3 was slow-paced, tense gameplay. Quake 4 is going to be over the top, all-out action.
    • Vehicles! They show a really cool outdoor shot of a bunch of Strogg (I think) fighter jets blasting everything.
    • Squad-based gameplay. A lot of the time you will be fighting as part of a squad.
    • Their multiplayer goal is to re-create the Quake III experience in the Doom3 engine, which sounds so amazingly sweet to me.
    • The storyline picks up where Quake 2 left off.
    • Quake 4 will smash the perception that the Doom 3 engine is only good at indoor environments. There are many huge, open, outdoor levels.
  2. Remember when..? by dasunt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As much as I like id software, remember when the occasional new game was different and unique, instead of the same old game with graphics updates?

    I know there are new games out there that are different, but they never seem to reach our side of the pond.

    I want more than FPS 17: This Sequal Requires DirectX 12. I want more than MMORPG: The Quest To Pay Us Money. And I want more than Super Mario Branded Piss Poor Game Remake and Zelda: We Are Whoring This Franchise Out For the Money.

    Processing power has increased to insane levels, the gaming industry has more money than Hollywood, and yet we get the same bland crap?

    *Waves cane!*