Not. Enough. Browser. Real estate.
Quake Live is a game that was developed out of the most popular version of Quake – Quake III Arena. What the people at Quake Live have done is to transplant Quake III into a Mozilla Firefox/Internet Explorer friendly game that is exactly the same as the 1999 release by id Software.
If you happen to like Quake III, you’ll definitely like Quake Live. It is exactly the same as Quake III – same guns such as the rocket launcher, railgun, lightning gun, and powerups such as Quad Damage, Invisibility, etc. You’ll love the fact that it has a very vibrant online community where you can find servers and players from all around the world. And the best thing is that you can play it in different modes such as TDM, FFA and CTF.
The game doesn’t need much processing power, and the truth is that if you are able to find a good pinged server, it will be one of the most enjoyable games which you will play on the web. There is an issue with 1024×600 screens, mostly because you will find that you don’t have enough browser real estate for the game to display itself. You can counteract this by playing it in full-screen mode (a simple F11 in most browsers). Also, note that Google Chrome is not supported. You’ll need good ol’ Firefox or IE, and you’ll need to download a plug-in that will allow you to play the game.
One thing I realised playing Quake Live for a while is that if you were very good at Quake III, make sure you don’t get complacent. You don’t find too many noobs on Quake Live servers, and the first 20 games, getting owned is easier than owning others.
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