Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $5.99.
- Performance: 74 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Multiplayer: 57 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 39 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Monetization: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Servers and matchmaking: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 4k player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Dennis Fong won John Carmack's Ferrari 328 as part of a Quake 1 MP championship in 1997, ID knew how fun it was to run around in Doom MP, they made Quake more fast and more vertical, when developing Q3A they decided to focus fully on MP and as a result, arguably created the competitive FPS genre or at the very least propelled it, trailblazing with the id tech 3 engine, which was used for Call of Duty, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, and had a lot of code which Valve's goldsrc used - that's right, HL1, CS, and COD owe a lot of their success to the blueprint that ID discovered and crafted.
preferring to focus brilliantly on arena combat and multiplayer.
After being teleported, it then shows some gameplay of what I was going to be playing with random letters zooming out.
The graphics looked really nice.
The Q3A OST is one of my favorites in all games, that’s saying something!
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Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $5.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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