Pop Culture Reviews

Quake Live update

For those of you who don’t know what Quake Live is it’s basically the video game Quake 3 which has been completely redeveloped to be playable via your browser. I’m actually beta-testing it at the moment and wow, it’s really really cool! I am a huge Quake franchise fanatic… loved everything about the games when I used to play them so having a new reason to love the game all over again is beyond words

I was a little dubious about playing the game via the browser but I had a little twirl of the game about ten minutes ago and it’s almost seamless – you don’t experience any lag or any latency, it really is a very different experience to running the game via your hard drive or off the disk.

It also looks really goood via my rather primeval CRT monitor so I can imagine it would look even better on a flat screen monitor on the best resolution (yes, don’t worry people, I do intend on upgrading to a flat screen for my gaming PC very soon).

There were at least 600+ gamers playing online which seems like a rather solid number for beta testing. I wonder how id intends to market the game… hmm.