Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Review

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(More customer reviews)I am an old gamer, Doom, Heretic, Quake (in MS-DOS!) etc.. were among my favorites at one time. My favorite games now are COD4, COD3, NCAA Football 08 and Madden 08. I have The Orange Box, but don't play it alot, I bought Orange Box mostly for the Team Fortress aspect. Team Fortress is a modification of the computer version of the first Quake game. At the time, it was my favorite video game.

I picked up Quake Wars yesterday, being bored of what I have and waiting for the new football and Socom offerings. I had downloaded some of the preview videos, which are pretty funny, from the Playstation Store and it looked fun. I have spent about 3 hours playing on and offline. Since there is not a review here I thought I would put up my first impressions.

This game basically is like Team Fortress, you have 4 different classes you can choose from. Its claim to fame is that you have missions, 2-3 in a game, and only 1 class, usually, can do the task to complete the mission and the other classes support them. For example, only 1 class carries explosives needed to destroy an objective or only engineers can repair a laser. There is a main mission and depending on your class secondary missions like if you are a medic, revive a player. The list of missions is on a pull down list where you can see who on your team is working on that mission with you.

Offline play is just like online play. First you set it up like setting up an online game, choosing map, time limit, etc.. Once you do that you start the offline and you are on a team doing a mission along with computer generated players that have unique names and act like real players. At first, you may think you are playing online. It is kind of like the demo of the online mode for GTAIV.

PROS

-Pretty fast startup time, most likely due to the first run setup which takes 8-10 minutes! I haven't check to see how much HD that took up.
-Lots of action
-Your soldier runs forever and never tires
-Great graphics
-Easy to practice offline since its identical to online play
-Ability to kick troublemakers (but when there is a kick vote, the person being voted on can also vote, strange)
-Pretty cool artillery you can build and control
-Play as a human or as a Strogg
-End of game shows a grid of who did the best in about 20 categories

Cons

-I played in 2 different rooms and on the same map and at one point in the game the fps drops to almost stop motion. I don't think it was lag. Strange.
-Vehicles are hard to turn
-The classes that can create sentry guns can NOT place them anywhere there is space on the map. You have to "own" the territory, i.e. it has to be on your team's part of the map and even then you may have a hard time finding an area where they are allowed. This is the biggest blunder and most frustrating aspect I have seen so far. Imagine playing Team Fortress and your engineer can't build past 1/2 way to the enemy's base.
-Comms. You have several simple (yes, no, etc) preset comms when you push R3 that print what you choose along with saying it in your charactor's voice, but many aren't using headsets. I have yet to see an in game communication system better then Socom's
-Controls are not as intuitive as COD4, perhaps the best 1st person shooter control setup I have seen on Playstation.
-While certain classes can dispense health kits or ammo boxes, you can't pick up weapons laying around
-Hand to Hand as a Strogg is pretty ineffectiveOverall, its an OK game. I don't know if its worth $50-60. Put it this way, I got COD4 and played the offline game to completion (6 hours) at one sitting. Perhaps a software fix will allow sentries to be put anywhere on the map, that would help. It would also be nice to allow players to assign buttons rather then offer a couple of choices on settings.

UPDATE

After playing online a few more hours I realized that many of my teammates names were really familiar. How many Gingers can there be on PS3 and why is she always killing me? LOL Then it dawned on me that the rooms are always full so the online games are a mixture of bots/AI soldiers and real people. This explains the lack of people talking on headsets, they aren't real! Anyway, after getting more familiar with the game its pretty fun. I am liking it more then The Orange Box or Warhawk. BTW its real easy to hook up online with your friends.

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