Despite neither magazine actually being available in shops as yet - details from forthcoming Zone and PC Gamer US 4 previews have begun hitting the web, as generous subscribers share their editions with the eager community. Whilst the scanned in images don't really do the game justice, looking much the same as 3 in many cases - the details emerging are rather more enlightening.

Quake 4 begins just hours after the events of Quake 2, and we're told to expect a mix of solo missions and epic battles, alongside your fellow marines attacking the nasty Strogg. The blaster, machinegun, nailgun and shotgun will return from past Quake outings, and the premise will see our hero attacking the Strogg homeworld en masse, through both interior and exterior environs.

More news is expected to hit the web soon from the newly published previews, though we can leave you with word that the aspect is being compared to Quake 3: Arena, though vehicles from the singleplayer game will not be available. More soon.

By Luke Guttridge

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  1. D347H Unregistered 4 years ago

    Well I am hoping that the hype of the game will have good game play. Doom 3 was all hype and no game play. I was pretty sad when I had gotten the game and thought to myself "where is doom?" Being that when you open a door, there are a whole bunch of enemies waiting to beat the hell out of you, while in Doom 3... you walk around, an enemy appears, you kill it, walk around, grab some PDA walk some more, go to next level and wait a year for it to load.

    Quake 4 seems promising, and I hope it is. Quake 2 was always and still is a good game to this very day. As well at Quake 3 with all of the mods that both of them have. However, I don't see Quake 4 supporting massive multiplayer like the older engines can because of the graphics. Most companies don't realise that not a lot of people have top notch PC's to run these games multiplayer, like myself. But being that there is a battle in gaming to see who can do better than the next, is what is making them do it this way. Don't get me wrong, these engines have superb graphics, but the game play is being lost. You sacrifice something good for eye candy.

  2. Lonian Unregistered 4 years ago

    Im with you.
    Quake 3 engine is realy somthing beautiful still today and whats so great with the game is that everything flotes on, just as great as if you had an old computer. You just lower your grafics.

    If you could do this with quake 4, it might have been a game, gamers will play alot in the future to come.
    Look at half-life 2, many mods are beeing made to this game, it rule the multiplay right now. Many mods was thought to be made to Doom3 as it grafics is great, but in the end they made it to hl2 insted.