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Summary: Perfect on Linux
Review: Graphics are just as good if not better with an Nvidia based card. PLUS!...they sell the Team Area install disk for linux too!!!!
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Summary: I wish it wasn't out of stock.
Review: It sounds like a cool game. I'm rating it on what I heard. If they get more Quake 3 for Linux games I will buy it. Games for Linux are cool. It isn't on an unstable operating system like Windows 95/98/ME. Linux is so stable and I think that games would play good on Linux but Linux programs are harder to install than Windows.
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Summary: AWESOME: UNDER [price]- AND IT WORKS ON WINDOWS?
Review: Let me start by saying this is the first game I've even purcased for linux-and i am not a considered a gamer. BUT for those of you who are debating buying this game, let me clear it up-BUY IT! Cool collectors tin, linux version (rocks on my debian box), suse included, AND it INCLUDES the windows version!!!! The linux version was a little bit tricky to install, but I think that may depend on my distro and my obsolete video card. BE WARNED: This product SAYS it works on a 4meg video card, but I couldn't get it to, not only until i upgraded my video card was I able to get it working. I also had to upgrade X, to version 4, for the nvidia drivers. I am running debian potato, on a p2 400mhz, with a newly bought geforce2 32mg video card (nvidia) and this game does great (although im not much of a gamer) it seems to run perfect. Debian was kinda tricky to get started, since my X wasn't up to date, but this copy of Quake3 INCLUDES a version of SuSe! Which i've heard is easier to install. As for the windows part of the cd: there is *NO* documentation, however, for windows, except for the FAQ @ loki's website. I had it working right away for windows, after a download from the web, and file transfer from the CD. If you would like to see more great games like this, buy it and support loki software! They did a great job on this! And the tin is cool!:)
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Summary: Best Performance of linux Game I've seen...
Review: Quake 3 runs GREAT on my Linux system. That's not saying all that much, I suppose, until you realize that my Linux machine has a 3dfx Banshee as its video card, yet I can run at 1280x1024 without a single stutter or hickup.On a technical merrit, this game gets a "5." On a gameplay merrit, this game gets a "3." That is, I really enjoy plots... feeling like I'm playing a key role in some momentous event. Half-Life... System Shock (1&2)... Deux Ex... all great examples of this. It's fun, but it's not "absorbing." So, I give the game a "4." The main thing to take away from this is that the Quake3 engine works GREAT in Linux. I recently installed the Linux binaries of Return to Castle Wolfenstein onto this machine. It also uses the Quake3 engine. Wolfenstein, so installed, is beautiful, and it DOES have a plot. ID Software, who developed the binaries for this port and who developed the Quake-series engines, have singlehandedly proven that Linux is a great gaming platform, yet again. The Quake3 engine is being used everywhere these days, and there's no fundamental reason that ANY of them can't be easily ported over to Linux. Well, that's not entirely true. It's true that there's no TECHNICAL reason that we can't have those games. And it's true that there's no MARKET reason that we can't have those games (minimal effort to create the port using all the same content, then a secondary distribution channel). However, there is ONE reason... the illegal marketing practices of Microsoft. Will this play out like all the other "Competition with Microsoft" activities of the past few years? Stay tuned...
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Summary: Best Performance of linux Game I've seen...
Review: Quake 3 runs GREAT on my Linux system. That's not saying all that much, I suppose, until you realize that my Linux machine has a 3dfx Banshee as its video card, yet I can run at 1280x1024 without a single stutter or hickup. On a technical merrit, this game gets a "5." On a gameplay merrit, this game gets a "3." That is, I really enjoy plots... feeling like I'm playing a key role in some momentous event. Half-Life... System Shock (1&2)... Deux Ex... all great examples of this. It's fun, but it's not "absorbing." So, I give the game a "4." The main thing to take away from this is that the Quake3 engine works GREAT in Linux. I recently installed the Linux binaries of Return to Castle Wolfenstein onto this machine. It also uses the Quake3 engine. Wolfenstein, so installed, is beautiful, and it DOES have a plot. ID Software, who developed the binaries for this port and who developed the Quake-series engines, have singlehandedly proven that Linux is a great gaming platform, yet again. The Quake3 engine is being used everywhere these days, and there's no fundamental reason that ANY of them can't be easily ported over to Linux. Well, that's not entirely true. It's true that there's no TECHNICAL reason that we can't have those games. And it's true that there's no MARKET reason that we can't have those games (minimal effort to create the port using all the same content, then a secondary distribution channel). However, there is ONE reason... the illegal marketing practices of Microsoft. Will this play out like all the other "Competition with Microsoft" activities of the past few years? Stay tuned...
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Summary: No question, it rocks!
Review: Quake III is one of the greatest games of all time! I give it an even higher rating now that I don't have to use Windoze to play it. The only drawback is that it's a little more difficult to install than on a Windows box, but haven't we all gotten a little too used to the one click install wizard anyway?
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Summary: No question, it rocks!
Review: Quake III is one of the greatest games of all time! I give it an even higher rating now that I don't have to use Windoze to play it. The only drawback is that it's a little more difficult to install than on a Windows box, but haven't we all gotten a little too used to the one click install wizard anyway?
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Summary: QUAKE 3 ARENA.............hmmmm...........do I like it?
Review: Quake three arena is a great game with a new set of 3d-graphics quality, but the game gets boring after a while.Actually the game gets boring really quickly, but i still like it.I like the
models, the weapons,the maps, the storyline, but once your in the game it gets boring real quick.I RECOMMEND a SHINY New pentium 2, 350 for maxium performance, and 600mb of harddrive space for maxium installation of performance.I recommend a 32mb3d video card.It also has to be opengl 100% compatible.A major powerful a3d sound card.128pcisdram at 100mhrz for map performance.and directx7.But, if you don't care about performance and just wan't to play the game, your requirments:pentium 2:233mhrz, 16mb opengl compatible 3d video card, highquality sound card,45megs of harddrive space for miminum installation,directx6, and 64spcisdram.But, if your a extreme hardcore gamer and wan't quake3arena to work absouloutly PERFECT, these are the requirements I reccomend:pentium3 500mhrz, geforce3 64ddr ram, 700mb of harddrive space, the latest majorist a3d sound card with latest drivers, maxium instllation, directx8.1, and 512pci800mhrz of rdram.take my advice.buy the game, enjoy it.your welcome.I reccomend it.
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Summary: An excellent value... for Windows users!
Review: The game is beautiful and I'm sure it works fine on Linux, but with a simple download from the Quake3 website, you get a fully functional WINDOWS version! In what looks like an attempt to boost sales, they included instructions for doing this in the package, so this is an officially endorsed alteration to the program.
Don't waste big bucks on the Windows version. Buy this version and apply the patch! It worked flawlessly for me on WindowsXP.
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Summary: An excellent value... for Windows users!
Review: The game is beautiful and I'm sure it works fine on Linux, but with a simple download from the Quake3 website, you get a fully functional WINDOWS version! In what looks like an attempt to boost sales, they included instructions for doing this in the package, so this is an officially endorsed alteration to the program.
Don't waste big bucks on the Windows version. Buy this version and apply the patch! It worked flawlessly for me on WindowsXP.
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