Demorama: Battlefield: Bad Company, Quake Wars demos on Xbox Live

That's worth looking at for the Fantastic Edward (or whateverthehell her name is) and Ein animated GIF alone.

I'll warn you now, Quake Wars sucks. I got the 360 version in from Gamefly last week and sent it back a couple of days later. It's horrible. It honestly looks like it was made using a slightly souped up Quake 2 engine. The controls are also pretty poor, especially for vehicles.

That's a bummer. Good thing for GameFly =D

Gamefly is nice, its just too damn expensive and it keeps going up.

Vidikron, I can't really say anything for the console versions controls, but I find it hard to believe that they dumb down the console ports graphics enough that it looked anything like quake 2.

@brokenscope

Well, I did say a "slightly souped up? version of the engine :) Anyway, it's probably been too long since I've played Q2 so that may be a slight exaggeration, but the game really is far below where it should be graphically. For example, Warhawk on the PS3 destroys the game. It has better graphics, larger maps, and better controls. Now, Warhawk doesn't have progressive obectives or different types of characters (e.g. medic, spec ops, etc...), so the games aren't entirely comparable, but I'm just speaking from a graphical/control standpoint here. Both make use of large maps with lots of players and vehicles. I have to think there are better options than QW out there... it's just plain bad.

@Fenix

Yes, it is pretty expensive. I signed up for it this last fall/winter when we had that glut of good games launch. I rationalized it this way... if Gamefly can save me from buying 1 game I would have otherwise bought, that one game pays for 3 months of the service. It's great when lots of good games are launching, but becomes a bit pricey when in the middle of a dry spell and I'm stuck renting crap like Haze and Quake Wars.

"Quake Wars is considered hardcore even by good PC FPS players. I'm not surprised it wasn't well received on consoles, especially given the apparently poor quality of the GAME."

there. fixed :)

I disagree, on PC at least it's actually a very good, hardcore team FPS. There's a steep difficulty curve, and you won't have much fun if you don't play in a well organised team, but once you get better and start making a difference even in a 12-player team... Well not many people have gotten to that point unfortunately.