Customer Reviews
Good Enough
After playing Unreal Tournament I expected, a lot more but what to do. Personally Dreamcast is my favourite console. I also have a PS2 nad a PSP but my favourite one is DC. First it's too hard to aim to your enemy and contorls are a bit too hard. Graphics are amazing and the sounds are ok. Specially the atmosphere is amazing. There are only a few of us Dreamcast users left and I think we should own every single game that we can find for it. Q3 is not a bad game. Unreal is much better but it is absolutelly better than the Rainbow Six series. And in multiplayer mod I had amazing fun with 3 friends of mine. So considering the price I can recommend you this game.
A horrible, horrible disapointment.
I played this game a LONG time ago (I don't know what happened to it, and I don't exactly care) and I hated it too the most extent. Multiplayer has some value, online is no longer available, and it's much too hard to aim with the controller, dispite what that other guy said 4 years ago. The single-player is boring and repetitive, though the characters are plentiful, with several options of their appearance, though this hardly redeems this sad experiance. The levels are small, but the game does have a spectacular framerate, and no lag, even when I blast in every direction with the rocket launcher, and spin in circles looking at their smoketrails. Once again on the characters, they seem slightly cartoonish, and sometimes scary, but not in the OH GOD, SAVE ME!! way, but more of the demented, troubled mind sort of way (Anarchy creeped me out). Overall, I'm glad this game is somewhere I don't know, and this is an absolutely horrible FPS and game experience. It has some fun (for about an hour), the controls are bad, and clearly not meant for the standard controller, as alone right away their isn't even a fire button on the defult when using a controller. This game is a steal for free, but seeing as its not, try out Unreal Tournament which did a terrific job emulating a terrific FPS for the PC to the DC (UT2k4 is out by now though). I have to say this again, this game was a waist of an hour, and it even lacks the core nescesities to earn a lowly two. Id give this game a 0.5, but that isn't the rating scale. I give this pitiful shooter a one...out of five.
Not much fun...too hard to enjoy...HUGE DISAPOINTMENT
Quake for Dreamcast is a HUGE disappointment!!! The games has a useless, irrelevant single player on par with Outtrigger and since online in no longer available the game is all but virtually useless except if you have friends over.
The game play is a little too fast and control on the controller (although it can be customised) is difficult. Aiming and tracking enemies becomes unbearably difficult with the controller and brings the game down more than anything else!! Nothing is more frustrating than trying to dodge and return fire through strifing, it is accomplished much easier in Outtrigger!
Overall Quake Arena is a serious let down!! I have Quake 2 on my PC and enjoyed the single player missions which are in NO WAY found in Quake Arena! I was really excited to get this game as I read all the over-hyped reviews on this site and others...but my heart was broken by frustrating and frantic speeds coupled with annoying aiming or lack of aiming mechanism.
I was first introduced to the genre through the multi-player Deathmatch of Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear on the DC and that was a much better experience with my friends. The idea of stealth, sniping, throwing grenades around corners and planting c4 all made that title a much better investment. Quake Arena lacks ALL that and exchanges it with fast running... shoot... run out of ammo... run... run... shoot with no strategy... run etc. You get the point. The game simply has you running VERY fast and struggling to process all the action.
On the plus side the game has good graphics, sound and the ability to turn blood OFF...thats it the positives end there!
My final word is simply this..."Look elsewhere for a good FPS"
