Tech News on G4'Quake Wars' has it all...even giant robotsOctober 18, 2007By John Powell - G4 Canada |
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Borrowing liberally from such classics as the ‘Battlefield’ series, ‘Enemy Territory’ is a first-person, team-based tactical strategy game. As either a member of the invading Strogg or the human GDF (Global Defense Force), you join a team and race to complete ever-changing objectives in many diverse settings ranging from bombed out cities to barren deserts and frigid wastelands
You are not limited to street fighting either. All around the maps there are an assortment of vehicles to assist you in completing your goals or just blasting the heck out of the competition. There are helicopters, jeeps, tanks, fixed turrets and my favourite…kick ass giant robots. Oh, yeah. Giant robots rock and yes, if you must know, Grandizer still rules. Those who rely on the voice-based, headset chatter in the team-based shooters found on such platforms as Xbox Live, may not appreciate the fact that they only way you can communicate in ‘Enemy Territory’ is by typing or selecting pre-programmed voice commands or responses. It is old school multi-player and can make organizing your team and developing strategies more complicated.
‘Enemy Territory’ is an unsophisticated title. Virtually anyone with some
sort of PC gaming experience can join in and start expending all their
clips in the hectic firefights. It is trouble-free fun without a lot of
fuss or muss. In this day and age of complex button combos requiring the
memory recall of a super computer and the manual dexterity of a rock band
keyboardist, there is something really special about a game that is all
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Why can’t we all just get along? Well, the answer is if we all did, the
gaming world would sure be one very boring place populated by Nintendogs
and Lemmings. It is lucky for us that the humans and alien Strogg of the ‘Quake’ universe still cannot see eye to eye after eleven years of beating
the ever lovin’ crap out of each other. The hate lives on and so does the ‘Quake’ series with the multi-player fragfest known as ‘Enemy Territory’.
Each faction is also broken down into character classes with each serving a
particular function in the game. On both sides there are total street
soldiers with machine guns and bazookas, technicians who repair damaged
vehicles, hack technology and heal wounded combatants, builders who can
erect defensive constructs such as turrets and covert ops with sniping
capabilities. Depending on the objectives and missions thrown at you during
the scenarios, each class has a role to play in obtaining various goals and
hampering the opposition. As you assist your team, you gain experience
points which can be used to purchase upgrades and the like. You can also
earn medals in ranked play.
Throwing another wrench into the works is that the vehicle and troop
movement controls cannot be altered without affecting one another. For
someone like me who would rather use my right hand and the “cursor keys” to
drive or fly vehicles around and the standard “AWDX” keys to maneuver my
character around, this can be a problem with no real workaround. Why you
cannot have two separate control schemes is beyond my understanding.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
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