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try UT04 ..imo very fast paced game, sure theres turrets and lots of places
to camp, but there are weapons and tactics u can employ to make them pay for
their campage  =)  UT04 is the game i played online most of any other game
besides q3, good fun.  Call Of Duty online comes in third.

Slik


<sndrbinder@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Are there any other games, old or new, that have gameplay as fast as
> quake - in particular threewave?  The reason I've never been able to
> get into a newer game is that after you've played quake, everything
> else seems like snails having a camping fest.  In ever other FPS game
> I've ever seen, you see your enemy a mile away and there's no chance to
> close that range, so you snipe.  If someone does have to close the
> range (to get your flag or whatever) you just stand and fire.  Hell,
> UT2k3 even had turrets!  How's that for incouraging camping?
>
> In threewave, you can close the distance from railgun range to lg range
> in the time it takes the railgun to reload.  And the weapons are
> perfectly balanced.  A shotgun up close does exactly the same damage as
> a railgun or a rocket.  The only advantage to one or the other is how
> you use it.  Quake is just the perfect game in every way, why doesn't
> someone make another one like it?
>
> Instead, every FPS game I've ever seen is just like every other FPS
> game.  The weapons and graphics look different, but they're all really
> the same.  The speed and gameplay are always the same.  It always feels
> the same.  "ooh, this one has vehicles!"  "oooh, this one has nice
> lighting."  It's still the same game.  Why do people keep buying them?
>
> So I guess what I'm asking is if anyone here has found another FPS that
> they like as much as quake, or knows of an upcomming one that shows
> promise.
>