Like Doom, Quake Champions is getting back to that old late-’90s shooter feel.
Each is good for different situations, so winning every round - whether it’s team deathmatch, a free-for-all encounter or the one-on-one “duels” mode - means finding the gun that will catch opponents at a disadvantage, and playing to the strengths of what you have handy when the fight comes to you. You start, generally, with a weak machine gun, and spend most of the match seeking out better stuff: Rockets, shotguns, rail guns, nail guns and lightning guns round out the arsenal. The strategy in Quake Champions, like its ancestors, is in arena control. It’s an experience that rewards fast thinking, great reflexes, and a miniscule eye for aim.Įverything moves fast, with players basically sprinting around the arena to come blast away at each other. The feeling stems from the shooter conventions that Quake helped to make popular: fast-paced movement, levels designed with lots of verticality, crazy weapons, and health pick-ups. The name Quake carries a lot of expectations, and, first and foremost, Champions evokes the distinct feel of the franchise.
Adding specific, variable characters to that old-school formula helps Quake carve its own niche among multiplayer shooters. Digging into the world of shooters past, the game evokes that late 1990s arena feel with a fast pace, lots of weapons to snag, health packs to pick up and more. While the addition of champions are novel, they do not define Quake Champions the way you might expect.
Like Doom, Champions adds new flourishes to the series core elements, namely super-fast shooting, to make shooter you’d recognize as something made in 2017.Īside from its free-to-play monetization scheme, the most obvious of these flourishes in right there in the name, “Champions.” While the game doesn’t rely on the team-building systems of “hero shooters” like Overwatch, picking an avatar affects how you blast other players, and how they’ll be bringing to the fight to you. Announced at E3 2016, Quake Champions is the first new game in the main Quake franchise since 2005. For the second time in two years, DOOM developer Id Software is blending ’90s shooter ideas with modern trends to revive one of its classic franchises.Īfter id Software’s extremely successful revival of Doom last year, the developer has moved to revitalize its classic multiplayer shooter series, Quake.
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