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."

No Quake Wars in '06

"Hold your fire! We won't be ready until we're done."

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.'"

63 Comments

  • wilsonthekiller

    Posted Oct 13, 2006 4:42 pm PT

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

  • Rigges

    Posted Jul 21, 2006 6:21 pm PT

    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

    Posted Jul 15, 2006 10:55 am PT

    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. Hopefully it comes out soon. *sigh*

  • shilp

    Posted Jul 15, 2006 7:50 am PT

    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

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 12:19 pm PT

    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.

  • Merl57

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 10:22 am PT

    NO!!!!!!!!!!

  • Fallout_red

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 9:22 am PT

    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

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 9:03 am PT

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

  • decebal

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 6:10 am PT

    "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

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 3:25 am PT

    This means LOADS of money for EA and BF2142.

  • radiostyle

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 1:15 am PT

    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

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 1:00 am PT

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

  • death5ter

    Posted Jul 13, 2006 12:27 am PT

    Confirmed: No Hardware Upgrades on my PC in 2006

  • rta

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 10:22 pm PT

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

  • CarnivaleClown

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 9:40 pm PT

    &%$#$*&$&$*&%&$$&$^**!!!!!!!

    Well that ruined my day. Oh well, luckily I always have alcohol to pass the time

  • walrus1

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 9:15 pm PT

    right one off the to get list for now at least

  • rynmls

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 8:58 pm PT

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

  • FRoStYisGoD

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 8:22 pm PT

    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

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 7:54 pm PT

    boooo

  • Pablo620

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 7:53 pm PT

    More time in development only means it will be better

  • blackIceJoe

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 7:38 pm PT

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

  • gdogg4210

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 7:09 pm PT

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

  • Solidsnake10S

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 6:20 pm PT

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

  • PSdual_wielder

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 6:12 pm PT

    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

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 5:43 pm PT

    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

  • rifleman91

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 5:39 pm PT

    dam...

  • Chubbums

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 5:29 pm PT

    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.

  • dr_taffin

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 4:52 pm PT

    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

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 4:38 pm PT

    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

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 4:30 pm PT

    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

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 4:23 pm PT

    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.

  • Gokuja

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 4:11 pm PT

    Well this sucks

  • mike_mgoblue

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 4:04 pm PT

    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

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:58 pm PT

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

  • veracity024

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:42 pm PT

    who cares, quake went downhill fast.

  • Brandmon

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:37 pm PT

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

  • serioustom

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:36 pm PT

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

  • SGTMUS

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:35 pm PT

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

  • revelations

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:34 pm PT

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  • solsub

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:26 pm PT

    Ah well.

  • SimonMul

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:24 pm PT

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  • cheatymcshifty

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:17 pm PT

    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

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:16 pm PT

    Welcome to the world of DN4 and TF2!

  • Chubbums

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:08 pm PT

    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.

  • erikers

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:06 pm PT

    hahaha owned

  • jonas__5

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 3:03 pm PT

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

  • makeyourself181

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 2:59 pm PT

    Post by ziggydoom:

    "afraid to go up against Resistance Fall of Man most likely "


    I hope you are joking.

  • seg555

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 2:57 pm PT

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

  • RVCA823

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 2:57 pm PT

    This sucks

  • kinncolts

    Posted Jul 12, 2006 2:55 pm PT

    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

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