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Todd wrote:

> I loved Quake 2 multi-player, but when I couldn't get it to run under
> XP, I went to Unreal Tournament.  When I tried to get back to Quake 3,
> I couldn't quite get the hang of it.
> 
> UT is now up to version 3.  From the Quake/Doom people, an arena only
> game hasn't been released since... Quake 3 Arena.  I guess Id realized
> that they did it right the first time, and chose not to try to improve
> on perfection.

Either that, or they're not as popular as they once were, since the game 
industry has moved on to a whole raft of new types of online games, 
especially concentrating on team-based and objective-based games.

> So, for those who've tired of the Arena, what multiplayer games do you
> find to be the funnest?
> 
> (Another plus for Quake3: The background story makes more sense.  UT
> never did explain how the players eternally die and respawn.  Q3 is
> some kind of afterlife.)

It's not very much of a decent explanation.  _Unreal Tournament 3_ tries 
a more coherent explanation, but it's still not very convincing (and 
didn't receive very good reviews in any case).  If you're looking for an 
"arena"-style deathmatch game where you die and respawn, then I think 
you're just going to have to face the fact that there's no real rational 
way to explain that and just play and enjoy yourself.

> (One negative (to my knowledge): No vehicles.  I don't much care for
> the vehicles, but Onslaught has the most servers running of all UT2004
> game types.)

A large majority of the modern team-based FPS games have vehicles, 
because that's what people want.

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