Quake 3 is 3rd seguel to the franchise and attempts to offer some exciting gameplay, but doesn't seem good enough
The game will provise you with some exciting, acion packed moments, but they don't seem to last long enough, especially for people currently stuck offline (like me). When I say this I mean that there arn't enough of them, and these moments arn't exactly edge of your seat experiences most of the time. Maybe a 10 second long machine gun battle that gets boring (to me) because it is't intense enough, and, just not realistic enough.
When i say not realistic enough i am saying things like how it takes about 35 machine gun bullets being fired hitting your enemy every time to nuetrilize them. Or how the pathetic girly sounding, short, grunted scream is heard when a bullet hits your hostille, It just sounds plain wierd.
Weapons in Quake 3 include the machine gun (wich seems more like a minigun as the several barrels spin when firing rounds), the shotgun, which can be fairly useful when 2 metres away from your enemy, the rocket launcher, a nice piece of equipment which will frag your target if cleanly hit by one of these rockets. These are just 4 of the 9 instruments of destruction that you are elligible to use in Quake 3 as you fght your way through 6 tiers (and a fnal tier, which will have one opponnent), each including about 5 playable characters, who you will have to face, sometimes versing several at a time, in a most frags wins based deathmatch game, or, usually at the end there will be a boss from the tier you will verse face to face (usually first to 10 frags wins).
The gameplay seems to much relied on a run and gun sort of gameplay, as your hostilles will never stop moving, running in a very unco looking fashion, as they will run around with no tactical game style, collecting ammo and items, and randomly shooting at anything they see.
So Quake 3 is just not the ideal shooter - that somes it up.