Quake 4

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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 412 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 250 out of 412
  2. Mixed: 129 out of 412
  3. Negative: 33 out of 412
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  1. MagicHAT
    May 20, 2012
    0
    Even if Quake 1 was different from Quake 2 they had same Gothic Punk Hard Core Design and gameplay. Quake 3 was only multiplayer but many play it today and with great design of guns map and plenty of hell-pentagrams-reversed crosses to keep any lover of quake 1 and 2 satisfied. Then Quake 4 comes along New-Cowboy-Redneck style, I hated it I hated so much it destroyed everything that quakeEven if Quake 1 was different from Quake 2 they had same Gothic Punk Hard Core Design and gameplay. Quake 3 was only multiplayer but many play it today and with great design of guns map and plenty of hell-pentagrams-reversed crosses to keep any lover of quake 1 and 2 satisfied. Then Quake 4 comes along New-Cowboy-Redneck style, I hated it I hated so much it destroyed everything that quake 1-2-3 where.
    Fun - 2/10
    Gameplay - 5/10
    Controls - 10/10
    Graphics Design - 0/10
    Story - 0/10
    All Time Graphics - 10/10
    Sound - 5/10
    Music - 0/10
    Replayability - 0/10
    Graphics for its time - 10/10
    42/100    … Expand
  2. BlakeT.
    Oct 23, 2005
    3
    Very old school. The gameplay is dated and uninspired. I'm not sure what id expected when they farmed this one out to Raven Studios, but I can't imagine they are really happy about the outcome. The "tourney" mode in multiplayer is fun, but we saw the same thing a year ago with UT2004. If you want fresh and inventive, go buy F.E.A.R. - it is a much better game. However, if you Very old school. The gameplay is dated and uninspired. I'm not sure what id expected when they farmed this one out to Raven Studios, but I can't imagine they are really happy about the outcome. The "tourney" mode in multiplayer is fun, but we saw the same thing a year ago with UT2004. If you want fresh and inventive, go buy F.E.A.R. - it is a much better game. However, if you are one of the ones who thought Doom 3 was fantastic, wait for Quake 4 to hit the bargain bin in a months.… Expand
  3. Q4Sucks
    Jan 26, 2006
    1
    This game was a major dissappointment. Nothing new, just Doom 3.5. Since when did graphics become more important than gameplay?
  4. Saber
    Oct 21, 2005
    4
    Repetitive !, Colourless!, Oldschool !, Storyless !, No special gameplay improvements. Its based upon Doom and IS 'Doom' people !
  5. KdD.
    Oct 31, 2005
    3
    This game is Doom 3.5 with a ton of gore (for the single player game). I'm no newbie to horror type games, but this one is the most disgusting display I've ever seen. If I were a parent, I would refuse to buy my child an Xbox 360 just so that they don't ever get their hands on this game. The gameplay itself is aged too. It's Quake, but there's nothing new except This game is Doom 3.5 with a ton of gore (for the single player game). I'm no newbie to horror type games, but this one is the most disgusting display I've ever seen. If I were a parent, I would refuse to buy my child an Xbox 360 just so that they don't ever get their hands on this game. The gameplay itself is aged too. It's Quake, but there's nothing new except the graphics. No new weapons, no new ideas, just more run and shoot with the same old gear. Unreal 2004 released a ton of new ideas with the use of vehicles and new maps, but Quake 4 feels very much like Quake 3. The graphics are beautiful and the lighting is excellent, but the game is very lacking of new ideas. I don't need to pay $60 for some new maps. I do not recommend buying Quake 4 until the price drops significantly.… Expand
  6. Phill
    Nov 27, 2005
    1
    A major letdown.
  7. FarooqA.
    Oct 19, 2005
    3
    The gaming 'thing' much less seen in the remakes of the old school pc titles is 'immersiveness'...I don't know why the bad guys have to be a merger of demon and machinery, but I do know that there is nothing 'special' under the phenomena. There is no myth under it, no mystery, no charisma, no 'thought' underlying this concept. Its just the idea The gaming 'thing' much less seen in the remakes of the old school pc titles is 'immersiveness'...I don't know why the bad guys have to be a merger of demon and machinery, but I do know that there is nothing 'special' under the phenomena. There is no myth under it, no mystery, no charisma, no 'thought' underlying this concept. Its just the idea that worked well in the past decade and the lesser of the creative minds just keep bashing the same old boring concepts in the current generation of games as well. Quake had been an awesome game, but its speciality has been due to whatever 'mystical' side it got to show in quake-1 and quake-3-arena games of the series. Quake 2 took it to a more science fiction side rather than the witchcraft appeal that suits the quake world better. knowing that quake 4 was coming got me excited to see the q3-arena look done to the better in the current gen of consoles. But it didn't...they have taken up the quake-2 stuff, that boring half demon-half robot monsters stuff whose cyborg nature is totally theoryless, the story which offers sheerly senseless plot, and the thing that got doom 3 undertaken...the repetition, all are mastered in quake 4. Although the Doom 3 did look better than quake 4, quake 4 does have gameplay advantages over doom 3. The vehicle stuff is good, but the particle effects are as 'old' and 'bitmappy'(rather than 3D) as doom 3 portrayed. I think its just enough with these type of gaming thoughts and directions, although the same boring direction is still coming up in games like 'prey' and 'gears of war', please people, let demons be demons and machines be machines ! and think more in terms of exoticness and immersiveness !… Expand
  8. Al
    Apr 27, 2006
    3
    I must say it is much better then Doom 3, I completed about 3 quarters of the game before I uninstalled it; I quit the doom 3 already at first quarter. If it would not have been for occasional help by other soldiers in the game, it would have been spitting image of the Doom 3. I agree, since when is the graphic more important then gameplay!
  9. MathewP.
    Nov 1, 2007
    3
    This game is short, it is 0 scary, and you almost never are alone, you are always with nooby soldiers helping you, i don't know how people can like this more than Doom 3. They are just fucken morons. Doom 3 It's a SOLO style game, no fucken fools helping you, and made for panic. This game suxs, when you run out of armor or ammo there's always a soldier to give you shit, you This game is short, it is 0 scary, and you almost never are alone, you are always with nooby soldiers helping you, i don't know how people can like this more than Doom 3. They are just fucken morons. Doom 3 It's a SOLO style game, no fucken fools helping you, and made for panic. This game suxs, when you run out of armor or ammo there's always a soldier to give you shit, you don't have fun. Yes, maybe u get solo sometimes, but just for some minutes, I give a 3 for it graphics and plot.… Expand
  10. Skizzzo63
    Dec 24, 2015
    3
    Although I love FPS, I have never been much of a fan of the Doom/Quake series (but I quite liked Doom 3 atmosphere and gameplay). But Quake IV was a real let down.
    I kept pushing myself through it, not having much fun at all, and wondering "Why am I doing this? Why bother?"... but I did, hoping the game would end soon. Go figure. And when I finished, I was relieved!
    It's not a bad game    Although I love FPS, I have never been much of a fan of the Doom/Quake series (but I quite liked Doom 3 atmosphere and gameplay). But Quake IV was a real let down.
    I kept pushing myself through it, not having much fun at all, and wondering "Why am I doing this? Why bother?"... but I did, hoping the game would end soon. Go figure. And when I finished, I was relieved!
    It's not a bad game per se, it's just... meh. And hours of meh don't make for a great experience.
    You just run around, kill monsters, find switches, go back (a lot), kill monsters again, same old, same old.
    Graphics are good, but Doom 3 was way better and immersive; here there's no mystery, no atmosphere, it looks like just a lame excuse to shoot stuff.
    If you don't need imagination and inspiration at all, and you just want to shoot and kill stuff, then you might like it - good for you ;-)    … Expand
  11. TyeBuster
    Apr 6, 2023
    0
    Just three words: ...VERY...BORING...SHOOTER...! Seriously, I would rather play COD Vanguard neither this garbage.

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#34 Best PC Game of 2005
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#18 Most Discussed PC Game of 2005
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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 62 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 62
  3. Negative: 0 out of 62
  1. Gaming Target
    84
    The single player campaign uses the old school twitch shooter style that is still enjoyable, but gets repetitive and is ultimately unsatisfying in these days of more sophisticated shooters.
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  2. BonusStage
    82
    In terms of multiplayer, we’re still trying to figure out what went wrong in that process, because Quake III ruled in that department.
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  3. AtomicGamer
    90
    I had a ton of fun playing Quake 4, and while the game started off kind of slow, it picked up quickly and wound up being a solid, action-packed experience without the dreaded "realistic" limitations on combat that so many recent games put on the player.
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