Confirmed: No Quake Wars in 2006

Activision confirms the latest Enemy Territory game has slipped from this year's schedule; will be ready "when it's done."

At E3 2005, visitors to the Activision booth were treated to the first trailer for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. For just over a minute and a half, viewers were treated to the PC game's arsenal of sci-fi shooter action, which will pit humanity against an invading army of Strogg cyborgs in Battlefield-style multiplayer combat. Following a series of explosions, the trailer (viewable below) pronounced that "the invasion begins 2006." This year at E3, the playable Quake Wars demos at the Activision booth had gamers lining up to get their frag on. The footage on display was so impressive, it earned the title a nomination for the "Best PC Game" prize from the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2006.

Given the hype, it is likely that many PC gamers had Quake Wars on their shopping list for the 2006 holiday season. Unfortunately, they can now scratch it off. In the wake of a flurry of Web reports prompted by a GameSpy developer interview, Activision has confirmed the game will not be arriving this year.

"It has slipped from the 2006 schedule," a rep told GameSpot; "the official release date now is 'When it's done.'"

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wilsonthekiller
wilsonthekiller

WHAT THA F@#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN WAIT!!! WHEN ITS DONE, SOMEBODY NOES????????????

Rigges
Rigges

Maybe they decided to do something which DICE and EA don't seem to be able to do. Release a game that is "actually finished" (don't forget Battlefield 2 is still being patched up and never really felt finished to me). If they could release Quake Wars with very few bugs it would win me over never to touch the Battlefield series again.

Xeldos
Xeldos

WTH!!!!!!!!!! When its DONE?!?!?!?...........well maybe there'll be better stuff for it I guess. Well this is where a Saints Patience comes into play. :P Hopefully it comes out soon. *sigh*

shilp
shilp

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! how cud they still lets hope 4 d best... i think dis is goin to kill d competion when its launched.......... so happy waiting

faizali86
faizali86

quake wars should have been released along with bf 2142, i wanted to see which one would be better. i can wait as long as they release a bug free, well tweaked game.

Fallout_red
Fallout_red

Believe me, many people will but BF2142 and its add-ons. But this is reasonalbe, Activision gives us Call Of Duty 3 in 2006 while misses Quake Wars till 2007 but EA gives BF2142 on 2006 and misses Medal Of Honor :Airbourne.

radiostyle
radiostyle

i think this game is better than BF2142 because BF2142 looks like 'C&C Renegades 2'.

decebal
decebal

"MariusSE This means LOADS of money for EA and BF2142." Only if people are stupid and buy sequel after sequel without any support. But you are probably right. People never learn.

MariusSE
MariusSE

This means LOADS of money for EA and BF2142.

radiostyle
radiostyle

maybe..i think this game would be for windows vista and directx 10 (fortunately, if activision releases ET:QW in q4 2006, i wouldn't play it because i don't have money and my laptop is too bad to play.) i think their decision is good because when i watched the gameplay movie, there were some problems.(for instance, throwing health-pack was too strange) strongly believe that this game would be better than now when they release this game. i hope so. i really wanna play this game : )

Township101
Township101

Awww, that's cute, Activision thinks a game needs to be done to sell it in stores.

death5ter
death5ter

Confirmed: No Hardware Upgrades on my PC in 2006

rta
rta

yet another reason for companies to shut up and quit releasing dates before they are ready to, just for attention.

CarnivaleClown
CarnivaleClown

&%$#$*&$&$*&%&$$&$^**!!!!!!! Well that ruined my day. Oh well, luckily I always have alcohol to pass the time :cry:

walrus1
walrus1

right one off the to get list for now at least

rynmls
rynmls

its on PC so its ok, but create for ps2 cmon, you can do it

FRoStYisGoD
FRoStYisGoD

that sucks soo much i was really expecting to get this game this year guess i'll have to just have to wait a lil longer :(

Pablo620
Pablo620

More time in development only means it will be better

blackIceJoe
blackIceJoe

Well maybe the longer it will take to come out will help it be even better.

gdogg4210
gdogg4210

hey, maybe i might have a pc that can actually play it when it comes out

Solidsnake10S
Solidsnake10S

When its done, i think we have the next Duke Nukem Forever

PSdual_wielder
PSdual_wielder

not that i really mind, but it is quite irratating and funny at the same time seeing all these responses to the delay. I think everyone has by now seen a lot of delays over the years for their highly anticipated games. I find this game very interesting and attractive as well, but I'm quite used to seeing delays already. id software is so smart at doing this, always recycling the quote for almost all their games.

XtReMeGaMeR4eVa
XtReMeGaMeR4eVa

I am so godamn sick and tired of this "When It's Done Crap." They did that with Duke Nukem and look where that game is. I mean it's not even like this game was using a revolutionary new graphics or gameplay engine. Pathetic

Chubbums
Chubbums

People use my icon? I made this icon and so far am the only one who uses it. Besides the 360 only has 512mb system memory which is shared by both the CPU and GPU. Imagine the 360 trying to run this game with 32 players online, I highly doubt it. More and more PC games are now requiring an insane amount of RAM. I myself have 2 gigs, and games perform top notch on my PC. I guess it does depend on the developers to optimize this game for the consoles. Most likely this game will be brought to consoles but will be stripped down alot.

VicMackey
VicMackey

Hey Chubbums, thanks for proving my theory about people who use your icon here. There's no reason 360 can't run all of these next-gen PC games. It's a bit more powerful than my PC and has no Windows overhead. The fault lies entirely in lazy developers who don't bother optimizing x86 software to run on all 3 cores of the 360's PPC. DX10 games might be a different story, but I have faith. PS3 will have the same problem of being even more powerful than the PC it's competing with, but even harder to program for. Sometimes I wish everything used the same architecure (but not manufcturer, of course).

Chubbums
Chubbums

This run on 360? HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH BWAHAHAHAHA *cough* hahahahaha omfg WTF HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! Well if anything consoles would be getting something like a "modern combat" version like what they got with BF2. I wonder what all these tools will say when the PS3 starts using the Unreal Engine 3 for all their games. You guys who are frothing at the mouth looking at Gears of War videos and pictures do realize it looks that good simply because of the engine. When Unreal 2k7 comes out for the PS3 people are still gonna claim the 360 has better graphics when its clearly using the same engine and made by Epic as well.

svrv
svrv

Are we going to need some crazy specs machine? will it be Vista friendly and not XP firendly? Maybe the delay has something to do with these things.

runstalker
runstalker

Quote: "Runstalker: Apperently you (like many of the people here) didnt play Enemy territory, the MOFIN free sequel (sort of) to RTC Wolfenstein...There trying to show that this is made by those people, and it will be similar to those games, set in the Quake universe," I know dude, ET is great. Played it for 4-5 months non-stop. My post said nothing of the games; just the name. 'Quake Wars' should be the dominant name in the title.

mike_mgoblue
mike_mgoblue

I can't wait to play this new Quake game on the Xbox 360. Lets just make sure that the Frame-rate stays at a steady 60 this time! I realize that first generation development kits for the Xbox 360 only allowed developers to have access to only ONE thread on ONE of the three CPU cores--which meant that developers only had access to about one-sixth of the Xbox 360 General Purpose CPU power--so that means we should absolutely see a steady framerate of 60 frames per second with full screen anti aliasing this time! Oh, by the way, the Restance Fall of Man on the PS3 has NOTHING to do with the delay of this awesome Quake game! In fact, when you consider that the official Playstation Magazine this month compares Gears of War on the Xbox 360 to Resistance Fall of Man on the PS3, and then the Playstation Magazine says, "One thing is clear: When the Playstation 3 launches, it will NOT have the best graphics, because of second generation Xbox 360 games like Gears of War!" That is a pretty good indicator that Resistance Fall of Man is the one that has a LOT to fear from the likes of Gears of War and Call of Duty 3!

GyRo567
GyRo567

Yay! ^_^ I should hope it lives up to the original Enemy Territory 100% with this good news.

veracity024
veracity024

who cares, quake went downhill fast.

Brandmon
Brandmon

PEOPLE This happened because they need to improve balancing issues , so chill up a better game is always better :)

serioustom
serioustom

don't care . will be playing it at this years QUAKECON 2006.

SGTMUS
SGTMUS

oh well, have to keep my self occupied with something else.

revelations
revelations

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SimonMul
SimonMul

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cheatymcshifty
cheatymcshifty

Runstalker: Apperently you (like many of the people here) didnt play Enemy territory, the MOFIN free sequel (sort of) to RTC Wolfenstein, Which both had (have... i still play them actually) amazing online play, hands down they get my vote for best online FPS's... which is better is a tough choice. There trying to show that this is made by those people, and it will be similar to those games, set in the Quake universe, rather than be more like past Quake games (meh), there trying to get costumers from both franchises while. If anything, the ET part is what shows the quality of the game coming, and they could drop all this Quake crap for all i care. Anyway.. if you havent played Enemy Territory, go download it, right now, its free .. its like 200 mb, and its a blast... stlil thousands online at any given time and its like 4 years old... its very very good.

Acrobad
Acrobad

Welcome to the world of DN4 and TF2!

Chubbums
Chubbums

I was actually looking forward to playing this game, Oh well I still have BF2 to play. Maybe BF2142 will hold me over until its released.

jonas__5
jonas__5

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo................

makeyourself181
makeyourself181

Post by ziggydoom: "afraid to go up against Resistance Fall of Man most likely " I hope you are joking.

seg555
seg555

This is id. They always say it's done when it's done. this happen before with many id games. So nothing new hear.

kinncolts
kinncolts

this game looks awesome i cant wait for it to come out... @ diggyzoom.....u got to be jokin right???...Quake Wars wud far outsell Resistence