Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Quake Wars' strong shooting model and focused objectives make it a lot of fun to play.
If
you took 2003's freely downloadable Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy
Territory and mashed it together with the Battlefield games, you might
come up with something like Quake Wars. Of course, the whole business
of the original Enemy Territory's Allies and Axis have been replaced by
the humans and Strogg from the Quake universe, but the basic nature of
the gameplay is unchanged. Two opposing
teams still duke it out while attempting to complete a series of
objectives, though this time you can jump into a bunch of different
vehicles and aircraft to carry out your assaults. The concept itself
isn't really new, but it's put together extremely well, and its
mission-focused gameplay will appeal to veterans of these types of
shooters, as well as those who have previously been intimidated by them.
The
year is 2065. The Strogg race has attacked Earth in order to process
its raw materials into a fuel called stroyent. If you've played any
other Quake titles, you'll know some of the history here, but it's
mostly irrelevant in the context of Enemy Territory's multiplayer
action, so let's cut to the chase: You join either the human Global
Defense Force or the alien Strogg team, and then shoot your enemies in
the face.
Obviously, it's a tad more complex than this. First,
you need to choose one of five classes before each match. The GDF
classes will be familiar to any RTCW: Enemy Territory player; the
Strogg classes have different names than the human ones, but they all
boil down to the same roles. GDF soldiers and Strogg aggressors are
your typical frontline troops; medics and technicians heal in the
field; and so on. Don't assume that correlating classes are all exactly
the same, though. GDF field ops can drop ammo packs, for example. The
similar Strogg oppressor doesn't need to drop ammo, since the alien
weaponry doesn't require any. Instead, oppressors can set up a tactical
shield to protect infantry or vehicles.
