Enemy Territory Quake Wars PC Game

ENEMY TERRITORY QUAKE WARS PC Game

In Enemy Territory Quake Wars To work as a team and overcome a resisting force is a satisfying pursuit in any endeavor, assuming it's not too depraved an activity, at which point it could just get gross and awkward. Such a notion forms the crux of any team sport like hockey, football, or soccer. But let's imagine, for a moment, that you introduce guns to professional sports. Now, outfit one team in futuristic body armor, call in a biomechanical alien race known as the Strogg, expand the field of play to a vast reach of terrain, and drop in tanks and attack helicopters. More or less, this is the essence of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, and its ability to keep that team versus team competitive spirit intact is why it succeeds.

Any who played Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory back in 2003 with be instantly familiar with Quake Wars. The Allies are now the GDF, the Axis suffered more of a rough transition, becoming the monstrous Strogg. Pick one of five classes on each side after hopping in a server. Earn experience toward more class, weapon, or vehicle abilities by using your skills and blasting bullets into enemy flesh. Work with your squad to blow up structures, escort vehicles, and hack shield generators. Win matches so you can type "gg…lol" ad nauseam on the post-match rankings screen, much to the delight of your squadmates and chagrin of the defeated.

Maps are large but varied and each objective, of which there are generally three per map, alters the front lines of battle. The game transitions smoothly between the various phases of combat, from large-scale open-field fighting, to base defense, to fast-paced corridor conflict. To be successful you'll need to pay attention to which classes will be the most useful as the nature of the conflict mutates. Hit Tab and see your team doesn't have a medic while trying to defend an indoor computer console? Switch over to the Medic class immediately. Find enemy engineers have set up a nearly impenetrable perimeter of anti-vehicle and anti-personnel turrets? Switch to field ops and call in artillery strikes, air bombardments, or an orbital laser.

Unless everyone in the server is an abysmal excuse of a player, one man isn't going to make that much of a difference in this game. For instance, you could have the best rocket soldier around, capable of targeting and obliterating Strogg tanks and airships within seconds of appearing on the battlefield, but it matters little if nobody's there to head for the objective while the enemy reels. If you've a group of field ops on your team with a great sense of battle, calling in air strikes and artillery shells with a heartening regularity, all can crumble in seconds if the enemy targets their deployable structures. You need engineers to back them up, repair the cannons they've called into battle when damage is inflicted, and ensure your team's offense never falters.

You may see the vehicles and scope of battle and instantly think, "oh this is Battlefield." It's not. There's less of an emphasis on vehicles here, mostly because they're oh so easy to destroy. Stationary turrets, auto-lock rocket launchers, grenades, and even machine gun bullets (or energy rifles for the Strogg) can make surprisingly short work of any armor. The on-foot soldier is the focus here, made obvious by some of the classes' wide range of complementary abilities.

ENEMY TERRITORY QUAKE WARS