Decent port, but has some flaws. Plays like Quake 3, but missing the gore, blood, and trash talk from Arena fun times
User Rating: 7.5 | Quake Live PC
If you haven't played quake 3 at some point in your life, you missed out on many hours of pure fps fun. Nothing more satisfying than blasting your competitors to pieces and seeing the ground covered in the blood and limbs of your fallen enemies. Quake Live is pretty much a port of the online play from Quake 3, which sounded great at first, but is missing some key parts. First off I was pretty happy with the score boards and ranking system, everything seemed to run pretty smoothly during matches, and they really didn't change or remove to much from the game formula... well maybe one thing. The game currently requires you to be 13 years of age when making an account *ESRB equivalent of "T" I suppose* but I'm sure everyone knows basically every quake title to date *besides quake wars* has carried the "M" rating. How did they accomplish this? And why? Well, basically they got rid of any kind of heavy trash talk from the game, unless you use voice chat but that's pointless due to no other players usually carrying such. But they really did it by removing all death, gore, and blood from the game. No longer do you have the arms, legs, and heads bouncing off the wall when you rail your enemies. The paths are not stained by the blood and bodies of the slaughtered. I think they cleaned the game up so it could reach a younger generation of players, but for the hardcore Quake fans and players, most likely this will hit a spot of disappointment. The site has a few cool features like practice, which can come in handy for the new comers who aren't used to the very fast movement of the game, and awards you can achieve for a variety of different things. Overall the game is worth giving a try, after all it is free to play and don't have to download anything more than a small plug in. But for us loyal fans, I'll stick with my Quake 3 and continue to scatter blood for a long time to come.
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