Quake III is being reborn as an in-browser FPS? Where the indie Phosphor went (more or less) first, the giant from id is to follow seems to be following, including all the around-game paraphernalia as well. Leagues, rankings, clan pages, and the game itself - all straight outta Firefox.
"...QUAKE LIVE offers game players of all skill levels a totally free and easily accessible multiplayer gaming experience and community through a single website at quakelive.com.
"Every element of the experience, including friends lists and communication, sponsored events and tournaments, matchmaking, stats tracking, and even the game itself is accessed and delivered free of charge through the web browser."
The first commenter on Shacknews wants to know if they'll keep in strafe jumping (a bug in QIII that allowed longer jumps if you could manage the evil wrist-flick-turn-and-jump combo. Guess who couldn't).
(Eurogamer's screenshot)
That's in a browser? This still boggles my mind, even after having played Phosphor a whole ton.
UPDATE: actually this isn't clear whether it's in-browser or launched from the browser; the PR release is opaque on this. Time will tell.
(Thanks Tom!)
Are you sure they're not just using the browser as a launcher ala Battlefield Heroes? That was my impression.
Regardless, certainly neato and all, but having played Q3 again at a weekend LAN party, I was reminded that it's far and away the MP FPS I suck the most at for some reason. UT, CoD4, all good, Quake 3, lucky to get a positive score. Shocking, and therefore probably why I won't be spending long on Quake Live regardless of nifty concept. :)
Posted by: Pete | February 25, 2008 at 13:51
Ouais, t'es quand même une r0x0r à Quake, FFS ! :)
Posted by: KaG | February 25, 2008 at 17:21
Yay! Thanks to me! heh.
I can't wait for this. I've not played Quake 3 for a long time.
Posted by: Mr Tom | February 25, 2008 at 20:25
Good question Pete, but Shacknews def says 'in the browser'. Maybe it's a mistake tho. Digging.
Posted by: Alice | February 25, 2008 at 21:01
Strafe jumping is deliciously simple Alice. Here check out this video, the technique applies to Quake 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf-8J8pSGr4
Very easy and rewarding.
Also Quake Live is definately launched from the browser, not played within it. SyncError from id confirmed this a while ago.
Posted by: dvide | March 12, 2008 at 14:17