Have You Played… Enemy Territory: Quake Wars?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

10 years old! Splash Damage’s attempt to transform Quake – then in the doldrums due to the unlovely Quake 4 – into a class-based team shooter felt like such a big deal at the time. Goodbye corridor-based Strogg-popping, hello open warfare in vast outdoor spaces. Surely the future of id-universe games, after both Q4 and Doom 3 had suggested the old formula had run its course.

You can’t even buy Quake Wars on Steam these days. Hell, the only way to get it is to find a physical copy from somewhere. (more…)

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