Quake Live – Minor review

It felt like ages when I played Quake 3 or Quake III Arena, it WAS ages ago, 10 to be exact. I was instantly hooked by this whole online mutiplayer shooter because it was a big thing back then, at least to me.

This classic first person shooter is back and you can actually play it on your broswer and its free. Nothing is better than free, and guess what? Its actually pretty addictive and brings a lot of my childhood memories back. The reason why I call this a minor review is because I hard got to play it, the server is always down but its obvious why.

You will first need to register, no brainer there. You will be put into a queue in order to do so, same as when you log in to play (yes you have to wait in line to log in and play). Then pick one of 20+ characters that were in the previous Quake series as well as the Doom series. The controls are basically the same by the way. First thing you need to do is go through the so called tutorial, mainly aim for those that have not played first person shooter and/or Quake on a PC before. You have the option to skip the tutorial by pressing F3 and go right into a practice match with a computer opponent Crash for 10 minutes. You should have absolutely no problem getting more frags (kills) than her. If you can’t, well you are a true noob.

Unfortunately that’s when my fun stopped, right after I finished the painfully long 1 on 1 with the computer, the server crashed while I was searching for available games. Hopefully they can fix the server issues because so far I have seen “Quakelive will return shortly” far too many times.

I can’t wait to play with the human opponents!