Xbox World 360 writes: "Lame AI. It gets more column inches than Nelson and causes more frustration than back-to-back seasons of Lost. But the truth is, we humans are all just as bad as any twitching CPU grunt. Just let a horde of us loose on Xbox Live or a LAN and we pour into battle like a clumsy pink tidal wave - once more unto the beach, where we will clog up the servers with our stupid dead.
And yet Quake Wars loves these dumb rushes. Because this visually almost-identical PC transplant wants you to run and gun: the eight-versus-eight online levels are large; the weapons are hefty; the health bars are small; and the penalties for death are almost non-existent."
BLG writes, "Alongside the Wolfenstein and DOOM franchises, there are the Quake games. Known for fast-paced and insane multiplayer deathmatch action, there was a time Quake was best known for its single-player design.
That all changed as time passed (i.e., after Quake 3 Arena). Multiplayer deathmatches were never the same.
As other FPS games leaned more into improved narrative and storytelling, id Software delivered a genre-defining multiplayer experience.
Quake 3, and the iterations, will always be one of the best multiplayer series releases.
As far as campaigns, I think 1 and 4 are great, but that 2 was garbage.
Quake Champions was a joke on and didn't capitalize on much of anything that made the series great.
Ben takes a look at what we can expect from Quake 5 in light of the recent buzz of activity at id Software recently. Hopeful at best but some serious food for thought.
DSOGaming writes: "AMD has released the WHQL version of their Catalyst 12.4 drivers. These drivers introduce some new features to the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, such as Windows XP 32/64Bit support, Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements when Super Sampling is enabled and significant performance enhancements (up to 80%) when MLAA is enabled. In addition, there have been various fixes for Skyrim, RAGE, Enemy Territory, and STALKER: Call of Pripyat."
