A fun, although short action game in the Quake series.

User Rating: 8.5 | Quake 4 PC
Quake 4 has pretty basic shooter gameplay and a cliche science fiction story. You play as Matthew Kane, a marine battling the Strogg army, a group of creatures trying to destroy Earth. The only difference is the marines are attacking the Strogg home world.

The game has all the basic FPS weapons, including pistols, shotguns, rocket launchers, and assault rifles, with some newer, more innovative guns added in. Most of the game is indoors in dark areas, but you can use your flashlight on your assault rifle instead of swapping between the two like Doom 3. The enemies you face can vary from infantry to giant gorilla-like Strogg who charge at you. You have to battle through tons of Strogg to get to your objective, which usually consists of activating something or turning something off. Needless to say it's fun sniping Strogg with the assault rifles built in zoom. The game also has a few bosses, all of which are hulking, ugly, deformed Strogg.

The graphics in the game are pretty good, but nothing great. The game is mostly indoors and the textures aren't very high resolutions. The game does feature great, detailed character models.

The sound isn't amazing in the game, but the sound of single-shotting the zoomed assault rifle into an enemy is pretty cool. The game also sounds cool when and enemy is blown to pieces by and explosion and flesh chunks land all around.

The game has a very low value. The single player will last most people around 10 or less hours on normal difficulty. The multiplayer is nothing special either. It's pretty much Quake 3 Arena but with slight changes, and overall isn't worth playing. The game does have a nice single player which should be worth it for a fan of the series or someone looking for a decent shooter.