More Quake ^
by Paul - Sunday 17 January 1999 @ 07:34
Ok peoples heres 9 (yes 9!) 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!
