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Quake 4 Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2005-08-12 00:01:00.0


Moving right along, GameSpot has slapped up a fresh preview on Raven Software's much anticipated first person shooter, Quake 4. Here's a bit on the game's weapons:

The map seemed to feature just about every one of Quake 4's weapons, including the machine gun (a much more powerful version of the Quake III default weapon), the shotgun (which seemed much more like Doom III's kick-heavy shotgun than Quake III's faster-firing weapon), the grenade launcher (which, thankfully, seems closer to the Quake I grenade launcher as it spits out flechettes with good forward momentum rather than the floating-projectile-tossing Quake III version), the rocket launcher (which is also much faster and harder-hitting than the Quake III version, though it's still not quite as insanely fast as the Quake I version), the nailgun (which seems to fire a bit more slowly than the Quake II version), the hyperblaster (a souped-up version of the Quake III plasma rifle with a slightly higher rate of fire but apparently little to no "splash damage" with each discharge), and the lightning gun and railgun (both of which seem to handle pretty similarly to their Quake III counterparts).


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