When anything new comes out from id Software people from all over rush to get it. Thank god some dimwit invented this cool thing called the "Internet" or we would have fights over copies of the latest id Software arrivals at your local computer store like they did with the Playstation 2. The Internet gives us a much safer way to distribute demos and patches and such. Coming from one of the best game development houses is another chapter to one of the most popular and influence game series to date, Quake. With the one year anniversary of Quake III: Arena going gold being today how else could id Software celebrate then a demo for their upcoming add-on.
Since we weren't one of the initial mirrors for the demo we had to download at a pain staking 15kb/sec from a crammed download sites, even with our cable modems we were getting poor speed. After downloading the bad boy I installed it as quick as possible and jumped onto an in-house ID server. But before we really go into any detail on the game, let me run you through the new features:
*Taken from the README file.*
The Quake III: Team Arena Demo can be played without Quake III Arena installed on your system. However, the retail version of Quake III: Team Arena will require the full retail version of Quake III Arena be installed.
The Quake III Team Arena demo includes the following:
Single Player (with bots) and multiplayer functionality
1 map (which is enabled for all of the Team Arena game types)
1 female and 1 male model - including 2 character heads
3 clan skins
4 gametypes: Capture the Flag, One Flag CTF, Harvester, and Overload
1 new weapon - Proximity Launcher
3 Team Power-ups: Guard, Ammo-Regen, and Doubler
New in-game UI
1 new useable item - Kamikaze
New main-menu UI (includes descriptions of all gametypes and power-ups
Minimum System Requirements:
3-D Hardware accelerator with full OpenGL support
Pentium II 300 Mhz processor with 16 MB Video Card or K6-3 AMD 350 Mhz processor with 16 MB Video Card
100% Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT 4.0 compatible computer system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for CD-ROM drive, video card, sound card and input devices)
Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 3) operating system
100 MB of free hard drive space for the Windows swap file (in addition to install space)
100% DirectX 3.0 or higher compatible sound card
100% Microsoft-compatible mouse and driver
100% Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT 4.0 compatible joystick (optional)
64 MB RAM
125 MB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files
Internet play requires a 100% Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 compatible 28.8 Kbps (or faster) modem
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