http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/quake4/quake4_demo.exe.html

Silly iD left this 'unfinished' demo on their FTP and its now all over the web. Muhawawa.

I love it, you get to play the first 2 parts of the first level. I don't like how the eyes are rendered in the game, but everything else is top notch.

With my 9800 Pro it runs awesome @ 1024x768 high everything with 2xTAA and 4x AF. MUCH better then Doom3 on my computer.

Already tested, seemed like a nice shooter. Nothing impressive, nothing contemptible.

It's pretty fun, I have the full game, yet I can't get the multiplayer to work for some reason... However, SP was fun

I agree with the eye thing. The eyes were kinda creepy.

it's been out for a couple days... they released it... then realized the MP in the demo is broken and announced that sometime in the next week the new dmeo will be released

After having played through the SP, I must say that while it starts off mediocre, it becomes a great SP experience as you move along through the game. Well worth checking out.

its a great game cept for the annoying vehicle and turret parts.

I rather wait for the complete demo.

The MP seems to be fine to me. I just played a short game and got in 2nd place with about 16 frags.

Anyway, after playing the demo in both SP and MP, I think the game looks good but the SP part of the demo was too short for any real fun to be had. The MP was fun though as it plays a little like Quake 3.

Seriously, Quake 4 to me is way worse than Doom 3.

Im enjoying Q4 more than D3.

Just wait for DQ7.

I don't know why, but it seems to me that Quake 4 is too much of a mindless point and shoot, Doom 3 has more interesting things to do.

Things to do? You mean point and shoot in the dark?

Doom 3=

Walk down corridor A, seeing absolutely nothing, find a few zombies, shoot.

Walk into corridor B, seeing absolutely nothing, find even more zombies, shoot.

Walk into corridor C, get surprised by a zombie behind you, still unable to see anything, shoot

Walk into corridor D, seeing only a little better, but still hardly anything, shoot some more


Rinse and repeat about 100000000000x

Quake 4 =
Walk down Corridor A. Shoot.
Walk down Corridor B. Shoot.
Walk down Corridor C. Shoot.
Low on health. Find some.
Walk down Corridor D. Shoot.
Open a door. Shoot

You're forgetting vehicle levels, mini-bosses, real bosses, and the fact that there's actual cinematic appeal and a good sense of atmosphere, better than Doom 3's...which is impressive since, if nothing else, Doom 3 DEFINITELY had atmosphere going for it.

Curious, have you actually PLAYED Quake 4? Or did you just spend 5 minutes with a pirated copy and then go "MAN THIS SUCKS"

[QUOTE=A pirate]ARR, THIS GAME SUCKS[/QUOTE]

Yes, I've played it, I went through the first 3 levels and I didn't like it. The graphics kick ***, but the gameplay and storyline (aliens vs. humans) is way overused.
Look at the original dooms, which I love, Hell is attacking the Mars station, it's more innovative.

Quake IV played too much like Doom 3 and not enough like Quake II.

Dairy Queen Seven?
Revenge Of The Chocolate Smoothy?

I played MP and everyone said "This game sucks balls" I felt like the whole experience was a waste of time and I wasn't at all impressed with the SP in the leaked demo.

there's more to it than just aliens vs humans.... and evem doom isn't remotely innovative... it's demons vs humans when you ignore all the details like you did with your comment

quake4's story is a continuation of Quake2's story which has nothing to do with Quake1's story

i don't know if it was intentional but some could see a WW2 reference or 2 with Quake 2 like for example... the airborne misdrops before d-day kinda seems similar to all the scattered marines on stroggos and calling the whole thing "operation alien overlord" (sometimes it's nice to RTFM)

[QUOTE=Victor Van Dort]Quake IV played too much like Doom 3 and not enough like Quake II.[/QUOTE]
On the contrary, I'm feeling like I'm in an upgraded version of Quake II. I hated Doom 3, but I really like Quake4. The parts I don't like are the vehicle/turret levels and the one where you had to walk aimlessly around your own ship looking for the briefing room.

Yeah, Q4 plays a lot different from Doom 3...there's a lot more action, a lot less meandering waiting for the next demon.

GUYS GUYS!
They should have made Quake 4 a sequel to quake 2, but instead of carrying on the storyline they should have made it about Kung Fu rabbits with bullet time.

I still like the original Quake. Coop is great, good graphics!=good game always. How is quake 2? I hear quake sequels aren't following the original quake.... :em321:

Quake 2 is much better SP than quake one.
Quake is standalone plus expansions
Same with quake 2
same with quake 3
Quake 4 is the only real sequel thus far

Quake 4 is similar to Quake 2 in concept, but they... did something to it. Something terrible.

I don't like realistic games. You know, with the tiny jump height and the weapons that try to be semi-realistic feeling. Quake 2 was absolutely over the top and I loved it. It felt like... well... Quake. Quake 4 feels like CoD in space or something.

There also wasn't enough nostalgia value in Quake 4. There were moments - like when you're driving along in a tank you can see some architecture that looks like the original game, but there wasn't enough of it. If I had been making the game I would have made SURE to include at least ONE area from the original game that you have to go through. I know it's just fan service but I, for one, would have appreciated it.

As far as the singleplayer goes, I still think Quake 2 is the king of all id games. Doom 3 had a high production value and it was immersive, but Quake 2 was Quake 2.

Yeah, I agree. Quake 2 was the best of the series. I can't really judge Quake 4 because I've only played the demo but from what I've played, it does try to be to "realistic" with the squad combat and all. To me, it doesn't make much since for the game to take place right after the events in Quake 2 yet have completely different weaponary and soldiers looking nothing like the ones from Quake 2. Yeah yeah I know... the game uses new graphics because its a sequel to a 7 year old game but still - they should had tried to keep the continuity of the game now be so drastically different from one another when it comes to the design aspect.

Does quake 4 have online coop for the single player missions?

Oooh nice. I always love it how some engines get a nice kick in the pants by their communities when the source code is released. I've been playing a lot of Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior because of the JFbuild ports that allows Quake III models to replace sprites as well as high def textures.

WOW, at first I thought that was just a new quake 4 mod recreating quake 2. Man, I never thought it was possible for non commercial modders to do something like that to the quake 2 engine.

Is that demo worth getting, i cant be botherd waiting for the new one to come out and im bored.