Ok peoples heres
9 (yes 9!) Quake reviews for you. We have some
really good maps in this weeks batch. Killjoy returns with a very original
piece. Scrawn (Jocke) comes back with a medeval style map. Bal pops back
with a huge ikbase map. Kables helped with some of the reviews and his
comments are in italic.
Eventually
here are the Top 10 lists for Quake
and Quake 2. Seesh!
Feedback! I'd
like some feedback from you all. I'd like to know what you think of how
this site is run and what you would like to see or not see. So if you have
anything to say, email me.
PlanetQ3
has opened. Not much there at the moment and I recommend Netscape users
stay clear. The site doesn't working correctly in Netscape.
I've archived
the news for the first half of this month.
Those Q3A piccys were slowing things down.
Goodbye CTF2.
All stuff relating to it has been removed, not that there was much anyway.
If you like CTF2 reviews I can send you here.
QuArK
5.4 is out. This program just gets better and better with every release!
The Action
Quake 2 link I gave last week was wrong, as in the wrong site. Why was
it wrong, well it was the "Action
Quake Owners Guide", not the actual Action
Quake 2 site, which I just gave the correct link for. DOH! So go there
and you'll see the idea that I meant.
The Hexen/Heretic
source code was released earlier on this week. Can't say I'll be downloading
it, but for those interested you can go here.
GLHexen anyone?
I finally have
Zelda!! I only had to wait two weeks =). I went into Manchester (I go to
Uni there) and there was not a copy to be seen and the b*****d shop attendants
won't tell me when it would be out. So I popped in my home town (Burnley)
on Friday and every damn computer shop had shed loads of copies. Dammit!
So is it the
best game ever? Not sure yet. I am really impressed by it, don't get me
wrong. Its just you read all these reviews and hear peoples comments saying
its brilliant and then you play the game and it doesn't match up to your
expectations. As far as the game goes it has Final Fantasy 7 to live up
to. I love that game, it took me 5 months of playing to finish it. I would
sit down with the intention of playing for 30 minutes and would stop playing
4 hours later... Oops! Anyway, it has that element were you play it for
hours before realising. It sucks you in. One thing I have to mention is
the dialogue is miles better the FF7. FF7 had cheese though out it. Music
is suitably cheesy, but thats how it is in Japanese RPG's. The graphics
are superb, this is what I really like. The view in the main area (Hyrule)
of the game is unbelievable. You can see everything, the castle in the
distance, the mountains. Everything!
I mentioned
it didn't match upto my expectations, well its just little things which
they don't mention in the reviews because they've creamed themselves because
they've actually got a good game! First thing is that if you talk to the
same person twice and they say the same thing, you can't skip it. You have
to wait for them to say it all again. Second thing is the camera. No game
which has used this type of camera (Tomb Raider, Mario 64 etc..) is prefect.
Zelda is no exception. It is the best every though, its just it puts itself
in some stupid ass positions. This is rectified by pressing one button
and it zooms to behind the player.
I also got
Shogo earlier on this week. That is one fun game. Running around in big
robots jumping on cars and blasting ickle people is fun!