Play Free Quake Live

Even if you have never played Quake before or aren't much of a gamer, you can still get into Quake Live. After you download and install the browser plugin needed to play the game, there will be a training game to play while the rest of the necessary files are downloading. You will be battling a computer controlled player (bot) named Crash. During this game the site will gather some information about your level of skill. After you finish warming up and getting a basic walk through, you'll be ready to go. You can hone your skills and explore different maps playing against bots in practice mode, or browse for servers with other players at your skill level.

The Quake Live site has a great game manual members can avail themselves of in addition to the tour of Quake Live. You can also find some beginner's guides here at holysh1t.net.

The site is very sleek. The server browser can be customized to narrow the search for games by fields such as location, game type, game difficulty, and game arena. The site will keep track of your progress and stats, such as your accuracy with various weapons and ratio of wins to losses, so it can continue to match you with the most appropriate servers. You can view your stats and the results of all games you've played right on your profile. It also shows a list of your recent competitors. The site even has a leader board showing the players with the highest rank in fields such as most wins, most awards, time played, and highest accuracy.

You can add other players to your friends list. Your list of online friends is displayed on the right side of the page. You will be able to open chats with your friends. You can receive their messages and be alerted when they come online even while you are in a game. When a friend is playing a game an icon will be displayed by their name in your friends list. Hovering over this icon will tell you more information about the game. You can then join your friends with just a click of the mouse.

Another fun thing about Quake Live is that you have the ability to earn awards for all sorts of different things. There are awards for anything from adding your first friend to playing your first match to a wide variety of feats of skill in game. These badges are displayed on your profile for all to see.

Quake Live has five game modes: Free for All Deathmatch (FFA), Team Deathmatch (TDM), Duel (1v1), Capture the Flag (CTF), and Clan Arena (CA). Most of the actual Quake Live gameplay will be much the same as that of Quake III, but polished up. You can expect improvements of many of the same maps and weapons. For example, within this gamespot.com article there is a comparison of changes in appearance of the map dm17, The Longest Yard, between Quake III and its Quake Live counterpart from the time of the closed beta. Quake Live will feature five new arenas and have over forty in total. It will also incorporate much of the Team Arena expansion pack with added team play features in Quake III: Gold.

You might choose to practice with Quake Live's predecessor Quake III. The skills you build there, such as proper strafing movement and strafe jumping, can give you a good leg up. In my opinion Quake III Arena should still, even more than nine years after its first release, be a staple of any good computer game collection. You can probably snap it up pretty cheaply. In Quake III you can play Capture the Flag (CTF), Free for All Deathmatch (FFA), Team Deathmatch (TDM), and Tournaments (1v1 or Duel), among other things, competing against bots or other players. Quake III was a big hit. In fact, with its simple sophistication it has been considered by many loyalists to be the purest arena for competition. Many professional gamers have trained in it, often with freely available mods such as the Challenge ProMode Arena, aka CPMA. Quake III's community is still going strong, even so long after the game first came out in 1999. There are plenty of mods, maps, gameplay videos, and learning resources to be found online.

Many who enjoyed Quake III will love Quake Live. It is expected to return old players to the game and draw a wide new audience, reinvigorating the Quake community with millions of people.

You can now follow Quake Live on Twitter: http://twitter.com/quakelive, or join the Open Beta launch event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=52798811654!



Holysh1t.net is a growing Quake Live site with lots of good information.

You will probably want to check out the talk and the info on such player communities as True Carnage, a "by gamers for gamers" site at truecarnage.com, esreality.com and its forums, Planet Quake at planetquake.gamespy.com, and Quake Unity at quakeunity.com. Global Gaming, ggl.com, and IGN Entertainment, ign.com, are other gaming organizations. You can hop onto the Quakenet.org chat network on IRC and visit the #quakelive channel, among others. Wikipedia's article on Quake Live can be found here. You can view the July 2008 E3 Quake Live trailer in HD here at gametrailers.com.

      
    

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