Quake 4 arrived as an Xbox 360 launch title soon after its PC debut, and heralded an era in which the single-player FPS dominated.
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.
Quake 4 made it's debut on PC and Xbox 360 17 years ago. Microsoft are now teasing new things, so it's time to look back at the original.
Xbox Insiders on Windows PC are invited to preview Quake 4. Originally released in 2005, players lead the invasion of an alien planet in this epic, narrative-driven and action-packed FPS from the award-winning id Software and Raven Software. Check out the Xbox Insider Hub on Windows PC to join the preview today!
Hate how they call it Xbox insider yet has nothing to do with Xbox but instead the PC.
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You should write MS a angry letter and suggest they change the name just for you…
I don't understand what exactly am I previewing? Quake 4 has been in my library for a decade or more is this a remaster?
I did it's still not clear article just says play the game released in 2005 but nothing more no mention of enhancements
It's got native 1440p and 4k support now and fixes the low res texture bug without needing to mess with the config. It's still got a 62fps cap though, I wish it had an uncap fps option or at least a slider for 144fps.
Basically MS is testing a more optimized and enhanced port of Quake 4. I wonder if Quake 4 will also be added to The Xbox backwards compatibility program [assuming the program resumes]?
For me, what launched the single player FPS campaign on consoles was Playstation DOOM which I bought during the launch window for the Playstation 1 back in 1995 which ended up being the best port of DOOM on consoles back in the 90s .
I hope Nightdive does a remaster of QUAKE 4 to be released on all current platforms .
There were definitely big fps games on console before this.
You could do far worse on the 360 back in the day it was a excellent port of a at the time fairly demanding PC game.