New games this week: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

by Justin McElroy on May 26th 2008 10:30AM

This was a close call this week, because the offerings are very ... how to put it politely? ... Porty. Which is to say, if you were interested in them, you've probably already played them. There's even Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition, which is a port onto the SAME SYSTEM! C'mon, feel the synergy!

But we decided to go with Enemy Territory: Quake Wars largely because it's on two platforms this week instead of one like Mass Effect PC, and we're all about pleasing the masses. Check out the full list after the jump.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Xbox 360:

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition

PS3:

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Nintendo Wii:

Death Jr.: Root of Evil
Monkey King: The Legend Begins
Kawasaki Snowmobiles
Emergency Heroes

PSP:

World Championship Cards

Nintendo DS:

Super Dogdeball Brawlers
USA Today Crosswords Challenge

PC Games:

Mass Effect
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition
Stronghold: Crusader Extreme
Bus Driver
Dracula: Origin

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Tags: DS, enemy-territory-quak..., mass-effect, newgames, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (49)

Bus Driver will own them all!!!

Is it sad that this is the first time I've ever heard of Quake Wars coming to the 360/PS3, but I absolutely knew what the game Bus Driver is? You'd think they'd have spent a little money marketing this thing...but then again, who that didn't play it on the PC, is still looking to play it on the 360/PS3? I played the demo, and it sent me directly to mehsville.

Yeah, I played the demo and looked around and I was certain I took a wrong turn, because I was in Mehsville.

Bus Driver, on the other hand...

This is Bus Driver's week. All aboard!

Oh fuck Bus Driver? Shit!!! That's GOTY right there.

Finally it's the Pc's time to shine.

Vegeta you forgot about the new PC encryption chips.

should I also make a bad Bus Driver joke?

Heresy! Get Him!

Holy crap did anyone said Bus Driver?

Well since I'm sure you need a computer so powerful that it could run Crysis and 3D studio max without breaking a sweat to play Bus Driver I guess I'll go for Enemy Territory:Quake Wars.

If the few reviews I've read are anything to go by, a Crysis-able PC struggles to run it at a steady framerate. Seriously.

What are the required components to play Crysis then? I mean if I wanted to play Crysis (I might wait for the PS3 or Xbox 360 version) what would be the recommended specifications for my hypothetical new computer?

Recommended Specs:

MONEY...a lot of it.

nvidia GTX 280, nothing less (at least at high res). Comes out next month.

Any system from a reputable gaming PC builder (read: chillblast, Cyberdirect or Computer Planet) at £400 or above should easily be able to do it.

A year or so before Crysis came out, I built a new rig with SLI'd 7900 GT's, 4gb of Ram, and a core 2 duo 6700, so that I could play Oblivion at 1080p/high. Since I had recently spent all that money, I figured that I'd be fine when Crysis came out....I was wrong. A constant 30fps (atleast) being my metric for when a game is playable, I could only get Crysis up to 1080p at Medium, and if I wanted to play "High" I had to lower the res below 720p (it just wouldn't work at 720p. Apparently going from Med to High is a bigger strain on your card than upping the res).

In other words, to play Bus Driver, you'll need a super computer from the future. To play Crysis, you will need one of the new 9900's or whatever the hell Nvidia's top card is right now. (I can't, in good conscience, suggest an ATI card).

I'm running Crysis on high on an 8800GT (4gb ram, q9450 processor). I'd imagine you could easily get away with one of the better dual core chips like an e8400 and it'd run just as well.

It's the graphics card more than anything. My x1950Pro is old hat, but it runs it on 1280x1024, medium, fairly fine.

Quake Wars? That game everyone played on the PC a year ago?

Pass.

The multiplayer is keeping some of the people who played it on the PC a year ago coming back to it.

The MP is probably the most addicting part of it, but only if you're into a fast paced strategy-FPS.

A lot of people thought ET:QW was crap.

There's a reason why the population went from pretty large to a couple dozen.

I want to go for Quake Wars, but alas I can only afford one this week, and I'm going to have to go with Colonies.

I'll probably regret it later on too, when I do finally pick up Quake Wars and everyone is so damn good at it already... Which is alright if a game is as accessible as Team Fortress 2, but from what I understand ET: Quake Wars is as complicated as it could possibly get.

All my friends will be on Colonies, so will I. Lost Planet may not have the brilliant objective class-based multiplayer that's all the rage, but it is a damn fun game online. Can't wait to dive back into some Fugitive and Post-Grab matches!

Actually I found ETQW very n00b-friendly. You might be surprised by how well the depth of the game is hidden.

I wonder how many bugs the critics found in the Sony version?

outdated jokes FTW

I hear Factor 5 have actually produced a manual on how to properly make jokes about their game.

Is Quake Wars ET a MP only game or does it have a SP too? I'm gonna wait on the reviews and maybe rent it. Awesome box art btw.

It has single player, but the multiplayer is what really got me hooked on the game. It's a great game to play online but it's not for everyone so it's better if you rent it.

Cool, the PC version got good scores and around 8 scores in the 90's on metacritic. Still no cosole reviews though. I'm glad it has a SP because thats what I always go through first.

Don't be fooled, play the PC demo first if you can. I thought the game was awful. Huge letdown.

If you have a PC that can run it, my Best Buy is selling Quake Wars LE versions for $20.

I would recommend picking up the original game, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory for the PC first. It's a free game and isn't very graphically intensive. Plus from what I heard, it is better than Quake Wars.

You can find the full game for free on

http://www.splashdamage.com/

Graphics are kinda meh IMO, well atleast from the HD vid I saw on GT. Maybe I'll Q it up on my Gameflizzle account.

The only single player I found when attempting to learn to play was vs bots.

Basically multiplayer only.

Super Dodgeball Brawlers?

HAWT.

Nein,this week is about Bus Driver.

All right, guys, I need your opinions. Who has the best crossword puzzles: USA Today or New York Times?

My DS isn't big enough for the both of them!

Crossword Puzzles? It's all about SuDoKu (sad fact, I bought both brain trainings for the sudoku and both are 100% complete).

Nintendo's dumb for not releasing their own Sudoku game using the Brain Age engine. That's the best version of Sudoku on the DS, period.
Nice that they use it for Crosswords DS (or is it Crosswor DS?).

Even their own Sudoku Gridmaster (developed by Hudson) doesn't use the Brain Age engine.

Bus Driver has been out for a while, i've seen it in shops for at least 6 months and my friend has had the demo for over a year =/ Unless these are just American release dates or something, in which case when you make these posts you should write down the games which are coming out in each region or something :I

That said, Bus Simulator 2008 is so much better than Bus Driver... Only not really, they're both terrible, especially Bus Simulator.

These are just american based release dates.

See that in your browser? It's a .com. Not a .co.uk.

And yes, I am an asshole.

can you bitch slap the chatty teen girls and steal their bangin lip gloss?

"See that in your browser? It's a .com. Not a .co.uk."

It's also not a .us

Serious (business) post:
Really interested in Super Dodgeball Brawlers. May also consider Monkey King. Looks kinda cool.

All I want is RTCW + ET ported to XBLA, without any visual and gameplay changes...maybe a few new maps.

Is this too much to ask for?

I've only played ET, but I loved the battery map.

A little too much, since anyone with a ~600MHz processor and 16MB of video ram can run it on there PC free of charge.

The first Quake was the only good one. It was better when it was dark and moody, rather than Lame Sci-Fi Shooter #911270

Lost Planet's a budget price release isn't it, $40?
I thought I remember hearing that.
Definitely plan on picking that up though, I meant to get the original but never got around to it. The demo was really fun.

Considering I never played Lost Colonies, this is a good week for me! 30 bucks too I think if I remember correctly.

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New games this week: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

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