Quake Wars demo now available

by Justin McElroy { Sep 11th 2007 at 8:00AM }

Admit it: Releasing a big multiplayer shooter a few days after Halo 3 is just plain scrappy, and it's the kind of scrappy that calls for a sports movie analogy. If late September were a movie, we'd like to imagine that it would be The Mighty Ducks. We see Halo 3 as "The Hawks," strong and confident, while Quake Wars is the Ducks, short on hype, but big on heart.

Continuing our analogy, the newly released demo for Quake Wars could be the game that the team wins to clench their slot in the playoffs that gives Emilio Estevez the opportunity to start hitting on Charlie's mom. It could also be the game after Emilio is fired from his lawfirm and the team is so demoralized that they get beaten to a pulp. You can only find out by playing. We admit that the big game between Quake Wars (Ducks) and Halo 3 (Hawks) won't actually have much gravitas, what with them being on different consoles. But as long-time Quake fans, it would warm our hearts to see them pull out a triple deke.

Tags: demos, id, quakewars

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

hvnlyspamr @ Sep 11th 2007 8:06AM

You know, usually your attempts at humour are good for a quick yell of "Boo this man!" garnering strange looks towards my cubicle.

However, today you have reached a new low. You should immediately slap yourself ten thousand times, and then just go home for the day.

Justin McElroy @ Sep 11th 2007 9:36AM

What, go home? Oh, you must be confused. I already am home. See, I'm so talented, people pay me to stay at home in my pajamas and write failed attempts at humor about video games. Though I often pine for your life in a cubicle-shaped hell, I find a way to wake up every morning ... whenever I feel like getting up, that is. Oh, also? You've been banned.

Matters @ Sep 11th 2007 11:38AM

That's pretty lame Justin.

Joshua @ Sep 11th 2007 12:21PM

YOU'RE pretty lame, Matters.

Man, you guys are having a hard time today with all the morons that have suddenly popped up...Sorry I can't do anything to help. :/

Neon Jebus @ Sep 11th 2007 8:13AM

You toed the line of insulting Joshua Jackson which would have proven a terrible mistake, but you pulled it off.

Good show my good man, good show.

riggs @ Sep 11th 2007 8:33AM

*Starts flapping arms like a duck.....waits for everyone to join*

hvnlysoldr (NDF - Wind Ring) @ Sep 11th 2007 9:28AM

Flaps arms for Duck Hunt

Majortom1981 @ Sep 11th 2007 8:38AM

The demo doesnt work for me. The game will start to boot up and then bam. A blank blue screen and my computer restarts. Anybody else with vista get this to work?

Phranctoast @ Sep 11th 2007 8:47AM

lol @ vista.

LZBravo @ Sep 11th 2007 8:54AM

So when is this coming out on X360? I thought it was confirmed at MinE3 2007 but I haven't heard a peep about it since.

SeriousKriss @ Sep 11th 2007 8:56AM

If it is as great as its predecessor, Halo 3 won't have that much impact on it's sales. I'd be more worried that people continue to play the first Ennemy Territory instead of buying Quake Wars.

Matt B @ Sep 11th 2007 9:15AM

Quake Wars for me, thank you.

Jake @ Sep 11th 2007 9:36AM

Coming to PS360?

Splorky Fish @ Sep 11th 2007 9:44AM

Mighty Ducks references always satisfy.

Hakobus @ Sep 11th 2007 10:04AM

"what with them being on different consoles"

What with Quake Wars not being on a console at all at this time...

Norm @ Sep 11th 2007 10:21AM

Wow, this game actually plays on my windows box with a Geforce FX 5200 - I know that card is a trooper, but dang. doesn't look much like the screenshots, but still. Its pretty good so far, though I'm no expert on FPS games.

kkrush @ Sep 11th 2007 11:46AM

I actually played this demo til 2am... It runs smoothly on my old pc with gf6600gt, seems better optimised than quake4, and loads much much faster than BF2(xxx)!

Differnt gaming style though, teamplay is big in this game. Fly those strange looking ailen aircrafts is quite satisfactory. :)